What did you do for your ZHP/BMW today?

[zhpnsnv]

I swear different cars have different shades of Imola depending on the life of the car. My former car was, to me, absolutely lighter in hue than many other cars. I thought this was due to the fact that it was always an outside car. It will also vary depending on what products are used/current on top of the clear coat.

[danewilson77]

he already has Phoenix calipers, I guess that would be a better shade to paint the fog covers



My idea makes sense especially since his DRL bowls are painted too. He could always switch back to the stock black ones

He no longer has Hamman fog covers installed.

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[Stu]

I love BP's calipers. One of my future goals is to get BMW Performance front calipers like that, then color-match them in the rear with some 2-piston Brembos and same style rotors.

BTW, these guys can make high-temp caliper paint and match it to any color:

https://www.g2usa.com/product/CBCP.html

[johnrando]

BP, car's looking good! I want to paint my calipers but I'm thinking since they are the blah OEM ones, maybe just paint them silver to blend in. Stu, when you say BMW Perf Calipers, you're talking the BBK, right? There aren't non BBK perf calipers are there?

[Stu]

BP, car's looking good! I want to paint my calipers but I'm thinking since they are the blah OEM ones, maybe just paint them silver to blend in. Stu, when you say BMW Perf Calipers, you're talking the BBK, right? There aren't non BBK perf calipers are there?

Yup, those are the ones. The BMW Performance calipers are basically a BBK offered by BMW that fit on their newer cars, but ECSTuning made a caliper carrier to get them to fit

[az3579]

BP's isn't lighter, Dane's has more depth giving it the appearance of being darker.

This.

Chris,
Dane has had a paint correction and then had my detailer attack it for 4 hours on Sat morning whereas BP had just completed a 500 mile drive on an IR of similar age and mileage that I don't think has had a paint correction. I too noticed what you mentioned in different tones of IR.

Mine has had some paint correction quite a while ago. The car was just really dirty when I drove down; it had been raining for a week straight before I could clean it, so it was gonna look like crap (as it did).

BP, I think you should paint the Hamann covers Dakar

Whatever they get painted will be up to Charlie, because he is inheriting them.

Honestly, I dig a white/red theme more than I dig a red/bright yellow theme. I saw a 1 series at the track a few months ago and his car was white and had red mirrors. It looked so cool, and I thought perhaps white mirrors on mine! It's not going to happen though, because it just wouldn't go with the overall theme of the car. Just some fun ideas...

I don't have the calipers on at the moment. I suspect one of the pistons is stuck, so I have to fix that issue and rebuild them with Turner's rebuild kit before I put them back on. Probably sometime next year, though I may sell them and get a smaller BBK (probably 4-piston) to make it easier to take them off and put them on to swap pads. These calipers are stupid heavy, and are a pain to swap brake pads with, which I'll be doing frequently. I swap pads for track events.

Not sure I'm even selling yet though, so keep your eyes peeled.

[Johal E32]

I'm happy

[Crestwood1001]

Gave it a much needed drink, 64$ later. John I was bothered by your pointing out my poor fuel economy so I tried to take it easy, I got close to 350 miles before the light came on and averaged 22mpg. The only problem is I mostly just drive to work, and the entire 10 miles or so there and back is driving up and down big hills, it's not often that I get to just cruise


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[Meric]

Plowed the snow from the car.. -.- Going to buy a cover for it.. I'm not going to drive it in the winter.

[Pip]

A little night time reading from the Bentley manual.


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