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Have you tried those pads?

You can't go wrong with an established brand like Brembo, but I'm tempted to try MTec. They're on eBay and their prices are so attractive that you get suspicious. A pair of drilled/grooved 330x32 front discs for the 147 GTA for £125 including shipping (to Sweden, so it may be different for your location). Worth a try? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/147-GTA-3-2-V6-24v-11-03-Front-Drilled-Brake-Discs-/110418421320?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&fits=Car+Make%3AAlfa+Romeo%7CModel%3A147&hash=item19b5736648#shpCntId

Sometimes I don't like matt black roofs but this looks fantastic

Wouldn't it be awesome if coilovers for the Alfa 155 were cheaper, like FK or Lowtec, and you could fit them to the 916 using other top mounts? I heard/read somehwere that top mounts from the Fiat Brava give you more negative camber than the originals

I still have those questions

Yes, Im interested! I'm leaning towards the HEL kit now (discount on their site, nice) but I wanna know more about these before I decide. Specs and price? Difference compared to HEL?

Looks great! Wish I had Teledials for "winter wheels"... haha Have you considered fitting a smaller license plate? One of those 300x110 mm ones? The OE plate holder that is shaped like the front bumper would probably fit your car really well, especially since it's black. Your exhaust has quad tips, but they look discrete. Like the opposite of DTM style tips. What brand is it?

I'm looking for advice on steel braided brake hose kits. Which is the best value for money, and where can get it?

Today's adventures in the man cave started out really bad, as I wrote above, because I ordered the wrong set of Yellowstuffs. The worst part is that I can't blame anyone but myself and my own laziness. Rather than enduring those boring 20km to double check which calipers I have on my car, I used the VIN number and production date for reference. Bad choice... However, after an emergency trip through the blizzard (sadly, in a FWD Peugeot 407 Coupé that doesn't let you turn the ESP off when doing more than 50 km/h... and its factory ride height means you might as well put a yellow warning beacon on the roof since it acts as a plow) to buy some more tools, I started taking the calipers apart. Since I don't have compressed air at my disposal, I had to improvise to get the piston out of the caliper. The weather didn't encourage any trips to the garage, so I couldn't hook up the calipers to the car's brake lines again and "pump them out" that way, so that good old trick was out of the question. Instead, I used the following: - A bicycle hand pump - A nozzle for inflating footballs etc - A brake hose with the correct M10x1.0 thread. I'm gonna change mine to braided stainless steel hoses, so I chopped mine of with a knife. The pic explains the rest, doesnt it? Fit the brake hose on the caliper, stick the nozzle into the hose and go crazy with the pump until the piston comes crashing out...

Great idea!! Or I could put the rust on a thin white sheet of plastic and play with a magnet underneath it... make some artsy fartsy patterns and sell on eBay I'm stripping the calipers completely because they weren't applying even pressure on the discs and they look terrible. Yes, really terrible. The paint is coming off in layers and there is a lot of surface rust. The car has, according to the previous owner, been used for commuting between Copenhagen and somewhere in south western Skåne (southern Sweden) for a period of time, so I blame the road salt for the corrosion on the calipers. The plan is that Mr Wire Brush is going to take the calipers for a long, rough date. Then, they are going for an acid bath. Finally, to make them even happier, they will get a fresh layer of black heat resistant paint.

Hahahh funny! Didn't have a 7mm for some reason... dog must have eaten it. And what if I had gone all the way and bought that and then it turns out that some annoying Brit has made sure it's a weird nasty inch socket that no one has ever heard of. The 7mm did the trick. Gotta love Biltema's open hours... My front calipers are probably the rustiest I have ever seen but I've gotten the sliding pins out and the pads out. One of the locator pins on the inner pad was broken. I have no idea how that could have happened but it had snapped.The pistons are also very rusty on the inside. Actually I just turned the caliper on its side and poured a mixture of rust, something that I guess used to be paint, and dirt onto the counter. Didn't inspire that much confidence in the car All seals look good tho, so now it's just up to me to remove them in a good way so they don't break... Any tips?

Neither 6 nor 8 mm work for the sliding pins...

Need help! I apparently don't have the right hex socket for the sliding pins: What size is it? 7mm? Or is it some imperial inch thing? This is how the pad should look, by the way. The caliper is marked ATE Bendix:

Things are going GREAT. It turns out that my GTV has the ATE/Bendix front caliper, even though it should NOT according to production date, VIN number and so on... The calipers are really rusty so I couldn't see the ATE logo until I bathed them in brake cleaner and wire brushed them until my arms fell off. Lesson learned: Bad research costs you €70 in unusable pads. Anyone have any tips on where I can get a correct shape performance pad at a reasonable price?

Looks like a really large event?

I still want the sixth screw where it should be, tho. Ignoring it makes me feel uncomfortable ?!

So basically everything I've written in my last post is completely wrong

You high?

Thanks everyone for uploading your photos

That was... weird. As usual when ze geermans do something cultural Good news! The calipers are off. Everything is very rusty, I might add. The gravel guards, or whatever you call them, need to bathe in acid... Unexpected news! The discs are off too. I thought they were secured by one small screw per side, as they usually are. Mine were not. When the caliper was coming loose, it turned out that the small screw in the 6th hole in the disc actually wasn't holding the disc at all. This is what I thought was the "locking screw" Scary stuff...

Looks great

I don't think the calipers, hoses and caliper brackets have been removed ever before during my GTV's life time. Everything is stuck, rusted and seized and it takes hours to remove basic stuff. I need more/better tools and a torch Today I also worked on removing the trunk lining. It makes you feel good to do an easy job every once in a while and see some results. The gas springs for the trunk lid were shot, so I removed them. Saves maybe 1 kilo A question: the left gas spring had these two connectors on it, for the "open door surveillance system" between the speedo and revcounter I guess. I assumed when I was taking the spring out that the two metal plates would make contact when the lid was shut, giving a specific resistance such that the dash light is not lit. What confuses me is that the two plates don't seem to make contact even when the spring is fully depressed. Maybe the shaft is used as a conductor...? Solution... I think? I can measure the resistance across the two metal plates and then connect the two cables with a corresponding resistor... I suck at electric stuff. Also, I have ordered Eibach camber bolts. Will be fun to try them out