I dunno why that fender is so messed up, but, Brendan took his Eclipse bumper off for the winter.

Oops didn't see that the model was posted. My bad.

I think you mean the passenger side, and its getting painted in the spring so will fix it then, it has a top crease which is aiming the tip of the fender up. The eclipse bumper will be going back on before paint, also need to find a rear bumper and spoiler.

my offer still stands Brendan!

yes sir.

Smart choice

Get some headlights for it! Keep it a talon front end!

Haha, here's a pic of my old FWD, and my AWD when it was getting brought back from the dead:

That's what mine look like at this moment.

Homemade Slicks FTW

I think Ruben has some too. FWD DSM "tire lathe" FTW
Post your safety hazard pic page!

my upgraded duel piston fronts on my 1Ga

Out from hibernation for a bit



My old tires looked like those above before the AWD swap, now all 4 new tires are half worn

Jason W. if the 1g single piston are just as usless as the 2g singles you going to love the duals.

Some of my friends think I spent a fair bit of money swapping them in, it made that big of an improvement.

The single pistons are pretty damn good in my opinion, I would be curious to do a comparison! Is it a lot of work Jason?

Number is pistons is not the only factor, the size of the piston makes a big difference. The Baer's on my car are only 2 piston but they are about twice the size of the stock 2g 2 piston calipers.

I think the best way is to figure out the braking force of a caliper is to calculate the total AREA of all the pistons. It is also surprising how a small increase in diameter makes a BIG difference in the area.

Also, increasing the area of the piston intensifies the force behind it using the formula F=PXA where F is braking force applied to the rotor, P is the pressure of the fluid behind the piston and A is the area in which the fluid is being applied to.

A 1cm2 with 100psi applied = 100lbs of force
A 2cm2 with 50psi applied = 100lbs of force

Increasing the size of your piston will in turn increase how deep your teeth dig into the steering wheel.

Well it was a lot of work but I enjoyed it, I ahve tried to be involved with the build of my car in every aspect up to the point where I run out of talent...timing belts!! (I know how to now do one but still its not worth it in my opinion to take that risk)

I did the whole brake upgrade new rear rotors and pads picked up the crossed drilled, pads and calipers from a guy on here from Que and spent my time sand blasting them to get the red pain decent on them (big help in clamping force of a caliper if it looks cool!)
I started at 11 and worked straight through to 4 and also did the braided front brake lines. Not bad for a mechanically inclined person not a mechanic.
Results have been happy its better braking all round but never having to stuff them hard yet I have not had to taste steering wheel.
All in all the work was fun I learned a few things about how to bleed a brake system a bit easier (Gravity) and did it all for 300 bucks when I did the math from the dealership side of things it was close to 2 grand parts and labour

You just can't live without your car
Do you sit in it a lot while it's parked in the garage?

^ lol I did that earlier today...

Who told you?

Just to add to that Ryan, the 2cm^2 piston will require twice as much fluid to move as the 1cm^1, you're just using the fluids as levers. Within reason all is good but go to the extremes of large and a huge multi piston caliper mounted to a stock master will feel mushy since your pedal will have to move so much further to move enough fluid to build the pressure it takes to stop the car (mind you it would still probably stop the car way faster than stock ;)).

Tanked, deburred, and polished my crank today. Thanks to Deep, he hooked me up with a nice one. Each journal measures to within 1 ten thousandth of an inch! Shes a beaut!

Ah however that may be, it still requires less force on the brake pedal. You cannot compress a fluid, so no matter the size of the system, any small amount of pressure will translate into a great amount of force placed on its acting area. A 1cm2 piston with 25lbs of force will create 25psi of pressure, applied to a 2cm2 piston will translate into 50psi of force.

Hey Rob, nice crank.

Awaiting heart transplant.

I see you have some the paint protection film too?

Yea Jason i found your idea a great one !

hurry up ruben, Get that snail in there!

Wish I had a new Snail. just not in the cards right now go to much other things to do to my baby.

Message me kent. I'll see what we can do.

Tripod!

Old pic from beginning of November.

bran new turbo !

Away for winter! Althought I did have it out the other day when the weather was nice, the final drive before getting taken apart.

California Death Valley

That's a crazy picture Alex!

Thanks Lucian!
You have one clean and nice 1g. Paint looks amazing

I see Lucian is using some redline

Thanks Alex. And yes Brandon, MTL + MT-90 in the transmission. I have to change the rear differential fluid as well, and maybe even the transfercase over this winter.