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    I was home all last week so I finally took the time to install the disk brakes I got for Christmas. These pictures dont do it justice in my opinion. Its so nice to not have to look at those drums anymore, not to mention it stops a lot harder too :D

    Before:



    After: (with a nice coat of gloss black paint on them)




    If anyone is interested in doing this swap I will soon be doing a writeup on it.

    96 V6 A4 Camaro and 99 Z28 A4 Camaro
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    Lookin good, but I think I'll spend 30 hours and 150 bucks elsewhere thank you very much :D
    <a href=\"http://www.cardomain.com/id/briansr\" target=\"_blank\">97 White Pontiac Firebird 3.8 A4</a><br />Mods- 2.75\" exhaust, Dynomax muffler, magnaflow cat, SLP CAI, Hypertech 160* thermo, Fan switch<br />Suspension-Kumho Ecsta 712\'s, 32mm/19mm sway bars<br /><br />Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don\'t fail us now. <br />-Elwood Blues

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    • #3
      I was going to do the swap, just getting a fresh set of drums and painting before they rust. How do you think red drums and rotors will look against white? currently have white on white and it looked great... for a short period of time. got dirty WAY too quick.
      \'01 Mineral Grey SVT Cobra<br />-former F-body owner

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      • #4
        Looks good looch! Now get rid of that annoying rub, and yer all set. Good job!!

        -Marc
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        • #5
          Originally posted by whiteshark:
          Lookin good, but I think I'll spend 30 hours and 150 bucks elsewhere thank you very much :D
          yeah, like maybe on cleaning up that dirty bird [img]graemlins/naughty.gif[/img] :D [img]tongue.gif[/img]

          Originally posted by ellik:
          I was going to do the swap, just getting a fresh set of drums and painting before they rust. How do you think red drums and rotors will look against white? currently have white on white and it looked great... for a short period of time. got dirty WAY too quick.
          im not really a fan on painted drums myself, unless theyre painted black or maybe aluminum. painted calipers look great however. [img]smile.gif[/img]

          Originally posted by hockeyman:
          Looks good looch! Now get rid of that annoying rub, and yer all set. Good job!!

          -Marc
          thanks, and yeah, i think i may have a few ideas on how to get the rub under control. [img]smile.gif[/img]

          96 V6 A4 Camaro and 99 Z28 A4 Camaro
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          • #6
            Hey loochy lemme know when you're done with the write cause im definately interested in doing the swap, how difficult is it?
            ---Niño---<br /><i>95\' silver 5 spd</i>

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            • #7
              looked better polished [img]tongue.gif[/img] ... but i guess with thoes wheels it would have taken a lot more polishing farther back on the caliper to make it look decent..

              looks much better than the drums :D
              -Aaron, AKA ATL2001<br />93 3.4L <br /><a href=\"http://www.ilfba.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.ilfba.com</a>

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              • #8
                Originally posted by pontiac nino:
                how difficult is it?
                That all depends, if you put the right caliper on the right side and the left caliper on the left side it shouldn't be too hard, if you reverse em it'll take all week, right loochy ;)
                <a href=\"http://www.cardomain.com/id/briansr\" target=\"_blank\">97 White Pontiac Firebird 3.8 A4</a><br />Mods- 2.75\" exhaust, Dynomax muffler, magnaflow cat, SLP CAI, Hypertech 160* thermo, Fan switch<br />Suspension-Kumho Ecsta 712\'s, 32mm/19mm sway bars<br /><br />Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don\'t fail us now. <br />-Elwood Blues

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by StudlyCamaro:
                  looked better polished [img]tongue.gif[/img] ... but i guess with thoes wheels it would have taken a lot more polishing farther back on the caliper to make it look decent..

                  looks much better than the drums :D
                  yeah, i tried to polish them for a while... but then i realized that i would have had to polishe the front ones too to get them all to match up nice. I was also having trouble getting some of that red paint out of the grooves [img]smile.gif[/img] so i just sandblasted them down and painted them black :D

                  no offense, you did a nice polishing job... i just cant make up my mind sometimes. :D

                  96 V6 A4 Camaro and 99 Z28 A4 Camaro
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by whiteshark:
                    </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by pontiac nino:
                    how difficult is it?
                    That all depends, if you put the right caliper on the right side and the left caliper on the left side it shouldn't be too hard, if you reverse em it'll take all week, right loochy ;) </font>[/QUOTE]bingo [img]graemlins/twak.gif[/img] [img]tongue.gif[/img]

                    but really it wasnt that hard nino, ill have that writeup done soon.

                    96 V6 A4 Camaro and 99 Z28 A4 Camaro
                    Visit My F-Body Page

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by whiteshark:
                      </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by pontiac nino:
                      how difficult is it?
                      That all depends, if you put the right caliper on the right side and the left caliper on the left side it shouldn't be too hard, if you reverse em it'll take all week, right loochy ;) </font>[/QUOTE]Hehe......i mean timewise pucker, lol [img]graemlins/rofl.gif[/img]
                      ---Niño---<br /><i>95\' silver 5 spd</i>

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                      • #12
                        heres the first try at the writeup... hockeyman or mustang eater... if someone whos done this could read through it and make sure i didnt forget anything [img]graemlins/popcorn.gif[/img]

                        http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/218156/5

                        96 V6 A4 Camaro and 99 Z28 A4 Camaro
                        Visit My F-Body Page

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