Post a pic of your car as it sits currently

[geldartb]

Originally Posted by MAC the KNIFE

parking in front of a no parking sign... yep, pure badass!

on the weekends we usually just park where ever.

god looking at it now i really got to take those dealer trim things off my plates. and the more i look at the grill i'm gonna look for one from the 2.5 cars as i thing it would look better without the H6 3.0 emblem that subaru molded into the grill so i can't remove it.

[geldartb]

Originally Posted by sleepyalero

Thats all you ever talk about is how dusty those pads are.

at least he drives his car..

[AaronGTR]

Originally Posted by MAC the KNIFE

got the rear 4 piston brembos on. compare their brightness to the 1 week old fronts. plastidip attracts dirt... the car is filthy in this pic btw. phone doesn't show it. hawk hps pads made some dusty front rims

Waaaiiit a second.... don't tell me you plasti-dipped the brake calipers?!


Well the new calipers and the back up camera look pretty bad ass anyway. I can def believe how dirty the front seat was too. Sitting in them all the time in that FL heat sweating away...

Mine used to get like that and they are gray so you can't even really see it, but when I'd go over them really well with some vinyl cleaner the paper towels would come away very dirty.

[MAC the KNIFE]

Originally Posted by AaronGTR

Waaaiiit a second.... don't tell me you plasti-dipped the brake calipers?!

so wut. i'm a r1cer now bruh.. yolo#

i got the idea from another G8 guy. trust me, i had the EXACT SAME response as you!!! everyone else says that too!
but apparently it holds up well with the heat. that guy's calipers have held up for several months since i first saw them.

but i'm not putting up with the agony of delicately cleaning plasti-dipped calipers.
in a month or so, i will park the car, send the calipers off for powder coating. but it's nice to have the plastidip on there to test how i like the wild color.

stock G8-gt pads versus 6 pot brembo "v2" ctsv













and sleepy, i just want to warn errbody about the hps pads being dusty as fock!
example: washed the car friday afternoon. by saturday morning, the rims were dusty enough to wipe your finger on and write on the spokes. only 30 miles....


i've got hawk ceramics i will probably dd, then swap to HPS when i want to autocross or dragstrip.

[tipnitty]

And now I want to be like sleepy, and change my brake set up.

[AaronGTR]

Originally Posted by MAC the KNIFE

i got the idea from another G8 guy. trust me, i had the EXACT SAME response as you!!! everyone else says that too!
but apparently it holds up well with the heat. that guy's calipers have held up for several months since i first saw them.

but i'm not putting up with the agony of delicately cleaning plasti-dipped calipers.
in a month or so, i will park the car, send the calipers off for powder coating. but it's nice to have the plastidip on there to test how i like the wild color.

Yeah, was gonna say... they'll probably hold up ok in short term for normal use, but not for long term or extreme conditions. I'll bet no one has plasti-dipped them and then exposed them to the kind of heat they'd see during track use. Way higher temps than you'd get daily driving.

But like you said, just the fact of them being a PITA to clean/keep clean would be enough reason to do something more permanent. Either powder coating, or at least some G2 caliper paint.

[xUnderCoverHoBo]

What rear view camera did u put in? And that g8 is so damn sexy

[TDavis]

Dupli color caliper paint still holding up perfectly

[Smithkid21]

Originally Posted by TDavis

Dupli color caliper paint still holding up perfectly

Same here. Did mine and I haven't had any chipping issues or anything. Been a solid year and a half now.

[sleepyalero]

I never liked duplicolor paint. Just dont like it personally. Lol

Aside from that, mac I know what it feels like I had hawk hps (I believe) pads with my baer kit. My old black wheels would turn purple in two days.


Now I have brembo semi metallic pads. I may have to buy 2 more sets before they sell out...

[MAC the KNIFE]

Originally Posted by xUnderCoverHoBo

What rear view camera did u put in? And that g8 is so damn sexy

thank you. it's the stock radio head unit. the pontiacs have the ability to have a video input from the factory, but as soon as the car goes 3 miles per hour, the screen goes blank for safety reasons.... the australians have had a "video in motion" solution for years, while we were left in the dark.
but a florida g8 car club member has figured out how to trick the computer. now the screen will still play your video input up to 150 mph!
the actual reverse camera, got on ebay about $17. it's like my rearview mirror now. i just leave it on all the time

http://www.ebay.com/itm/111296986622...84.m1497.l2649

Originally Posted by sleepyalero

I never liked duplicolor paint. Just dont like it personally. Lol

Aside from that, mac I know what it feels like I had hawk hps (I believe) pads with my baer kit. My old black wheels would turn purple in two days.


Now I have brembo semi metallic pads. I may have to buy 2 more sets before they sell out...

the calipers were originally powder coated yellow from the factory, and they cleaned up so easily! so i'm going to powder coat them, rather than paint.

HPS is "ferro-carbon" which sounds semi-metallic to me.... get some hawk PC ceramic pads, they didn't make any dust at all by comparison

[sleepyalero]

Yeah the brembos are real nice. Not dusty like at all really. Wheels stay cleaner this way haha

[TDavis]

Looking at corbeau A4s and looking at seat brackets they have some for the 86-94 grand am, 95-97 grand am but not the 99-05? Are the seats in the 95-97 same style as the 99-05? It's weird since they don't have the newer grand prixs or bonnevilles either

[sleepyalero]

Hit a junkyard and measure. Either way I expect it to not be a direct bolt in application. Im sure some modification will be necessary.

[gudge]

[tipnitty]

Looking good man. I dig it.

[geldartb]

since it was humid as hell today and i really had no motivation to do anything. i slipped away and went and hid and took a pic of my car out the window behind where i was hiding..

[H.O. Driver]

Originally Posted by geldartb

since it was humid as hell today and i really had no motivation to do anything. i slipped away and went and hid and took a pic of my car out the window behind where i was hiding..

You guys hiring? I want a job like that, .

[geldartb]

Originally Posted by TDavis

Looking at corbeau A4s and looking at seat brackets they have some for the 86-94 grand am, 95-97 grand am but not the 99-05? Are the seats in the 95-97 same style as the 99-05? It's weird since they don't have the newer grand prixs or bonnevilles either

the seats in the 95-98 grand am might iirc be bolt down style in the front where as the 99-05 GA has a type of claw hook mount in the front. you have to tilt the seat towards the windshield to lift it out.

[[ChaosweaveR]]

Brendan's job really sounds way too similar to my old job...except he actually makes a nice paycheck and doesn't have employers that are privileged jerk offs.