gixxerfool
Autocross Champion
- Location
- New Jersey
- Car(s)
- 2016 Golf R
Going back and forth about the Macan upgrade, I landed on a no since most of the guys that used them said there will be no discernible difference on the street. I grabbed a set of used GTI PP fronts from a member here for what I feel was a decent enough price. Powder coat was my original goal, but my regular guy has been sporadic about getting back to me and I do not chase people down to spend my money with them. I looked at other options.
Spray paint was considered, but I don't think it has any real world durability in this application. No matter the prep, type, or application it just does not hold up. So I started looking at other DIY methods that were reasonably priced. Found the G2 system ordered some blue and ordered new deals from Badgeskins.
Here are the before pics. Not my pics, but they show the general state and saved me from remembering to take progress pics, I suck at that.
They were generally in good shape, just needed some real cleaning. I got to work soaking and scrubbing in some water and degreaser. After that, a lot of masking, little corners and radii.
I thought I grabbed a picture of everything masked off, did I mention I suck at progress pics? While the kit says you do not have to sand anything, as this is designed to be used with the calipers still on the car, I scuffed them with some 400 for a little tooth anyways.
My kit arrived...in white...
Must be the wrong box, right?
Nope. I contacted G2 right away, I ordered straight from them since they were cheaper than Amazon, sent them my invoice and pics and they sent the correct color right out. No questions, and they left me the white paint which is useless as far as I am concerned.
After picking at the masking for a couple of weeks here and there I added some hangers. Real quick on the masking, I grabbed the little watch makers hammer from Harbor Freight for about $3 or so and was perfect for tapping on the sharp edges to cut the tape. It was nice and small to get into tighter areas. There were still spots I needed to cut by hand, but a real sanity saver.
The calipers were prepped and then hung.
I did another quick wipe with the supplied brake clean and started the process. Prior I watched a bunch of YT videos of people using this system, so there is some information I gleaned I found helpful. The first coat is supposed to be thin, do not worry after the first coat it really starts to come out. Its basically a coat to give it some good foundation. The subsequent coats are thicker and need to be otherwise your brush dries out enough to start pulling the previous layers off.
I let them cure for a few hours in my ventilated garage and then brought them downstairs into my boiler room where its warm and let them sit another 24 hours. I was impressed by the self leveling of this product. While not perfect, pretty damned good.
Spray paint was considered, but I don't think it has any real world durability in this application. No matter the prep, type, or application it just does not hold up. So I started looking at other DIY methods that were reasonably priced. Found the G2 system ordered some blue and ordered new deals from Badgeskins.
Here are the before pics. Not my pics, but they show the general state and saved me from remembering to take progress pics, I suck at that.
They were generally in good shape, just needed some real cleaning. I got to work soaking and scrubbing in some water and degreaser. After that, a lot of masking, little corners and radii.
I thought I grabbed a picture of everything masked off, did I mention I suck at progress pics? While the kit says you do not have to sand anything, as this is designed to be used with the calipers still on the car, I scuffed them with some 400 for a little tooth anyways.
My kit arrived...in white...
Must be the wrong box, right?
Nope. I contacted G2 right away, I ordered straight from them since they were cheaper than Amazon, sent them my invoice and pics and they sent the correct color right out. No questions, and they left me the white paint which is useless as far as I am concerned.
After picking at the masking for a couple of weeks here and there I added some hangers. Real quick on the masking, I grabbed the little watch makers hammer from Harbor Freight for about $3 or so and was perfect for tapping on the sharp edges to cut the tape. It was nice and small to get into tighter areas. There were still spots I needed to cut by hand, but a real sanity saver.
The calipers were prepped and then hung.
I did another quick wipe with the supplied brake clean and started the process. Prior I watched a bunch of YT videos of people using this system, so there is some information I gleaned I found helpful. The first coat is supposed to be thin, do not worry after the first coat it really starts to come out. Its basically a coat to give it some good foundation. The subsequent coats are thicker and need to be otherwise your brush dries out enough to start pulling the previous layers off.
I let them cure for a few hours in my ventilated garage and then brought them downstairs into my boiler room where its warm and let them sit another 24 hours. I was impressed by the self leveling of this product. While not perfect, pretty damned good.
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