This is something thats been nagging me for ages and finally iv got around to it.
The standard 2.0lt Z4 brakes are actually really and perform well but for vanity reasons i wanted to change them, especially since fitting the ZM wheel's last Summer.
Before
I found a guy on ebay selling a pair of BMW 3.0lt front callipers with carriers and snapped them up for £70. He assured me they where ready to bolt on and had only done 40k miles, i already knew id rebuild them, but when they arrived and sound dead spiders and cobwebs in them so i guessed maybe they had only been on a car that had done 40K but they must have been on a shelf for 2 years, lol!
So i too them apart, wire brushed them down all over, removed the piston and the seals, washed them in Washing up liquid, left them to dry and then sprayed them with silver Halfords calliper paint and left them to dry over night.
I also found these bad boys on ebay for £100 delivered.
Last night i started removing the drivers side and finished that, and then finished the whole job of this afternoon.
Bosh! Job done, im really chuffed, to me it makes such a big visual difference
Excuse the front bumper damage, some C*@t did that in a car park and drove off, thats my next job to sort.
The standard 2.0lt Z4 brakes are actually really and perform well but for vanity reasons i wanted to change them, especially since fitting the ZM wheel's last Summer.
Before
I found a guy on ebay selling a pair of BMW 3.0lt front callipers with carriers and snapped them up for £70. He assured me they where ready to bolt on and had only done 40k miles, i already knew id rebuild them, but when they arrived and sound dead spiders and cobwebs in them so i guessed maybe they had only been on a car that had done 40K but they must have been on a shelf for 2 years, lol!
So i too them apart, wire brushed them down all over, removed the piston and the seals, washed them in Washing up liquid, left them to dry and then sprayed them with silver Halfords calliper paint and left them to dry over night.
I also found these bad boys on ebay for £100 delivered.
Last night i started removing the drivers side and finished that, and then finished the whole job of this afternoon.
Bosh! Job done, im really chuffed, to me it makes such a big visual difference
Excuse the front bumper damage, some C*@t did that in a car park and drove off, thats my next job to sort.