superb Damo's Superb : Project Ginormica (aka Susan)

[Damo]

Thanks Leon

[JakeBlade]

Looks good Damo. You just need some sort of grille guard now to go across the lower grille...?

[vrsadz]

Awesome mate

 

look forward to seeing this at the yorkshire meet

[Damo]

look forward to seeing this at the yorkshire meet

 

Cheers Adz

[Damo]

Todays tedious task was to paint the callipers...

 

 

 

Decided to go for blue, as Skoda's are usually green and red.

 

Wanted something different and yellow wasn't my thing, so blue it was

 

What a PITA it is doing them, 3 coats each.

 

Rears to do tomorrow if the weather stays fine

 

Cheers

 

Damo

[WaveyDavey]

Did you brush paint them or was it aerosol/spray paint? I put the same sort of shade of blue on my Rover 600 sport's calipers a few years ago. That was a very dark metallic blue car so was a similar look.

 

 

 

 

Cheers

 

Dave.

[MilanM]

One quick q for you guys...nevermind I have Superb Mk1 but I have small dilema...what you think, to sprey brake calipers in Kawasaki green?

My superb is dark grey. Yes or no?

[JakeBlade]

You weren't tempted to put a decal on them Damo?

[Damo]

You weren't tempted to put a decal on them Damo?

Yes mate, just deciding whether to go for Skoda or Skoda motorsport

[Damo]

One quick q for you guys...nevermind I have Superb Mk1 but I have small dilema...what you think, to sprey brake calipers in Kawasaki green?

My superb is dark grey. Yes or no?

If you like it mate, go for it

Can always repaint them again, if they are a bit lairy

[Damo]

Did you brush paint them or was it aerosol/spray paint? I put the same sort of shade of blue on my Rover 600 sport's calipers a few years ago. That was a very dark metallic blue car so was a similar look.

 

 

 

 

Cheers

 

Dave.

Brush Dave

You cant see any brush strokes at all, if thats what your worried about

I used the caliper paint from halfords, about a tenner. That foliatec stuff is double and just the same

[vrsadz]

did u do it with the caliper still fitted or remove it and paint them

[WaveyDavey]

Brush Dave

You cant see any brush strokes at all, if thats what your worried about

I used the caliper paint from halfords, about a tenner. That foliatec stuff is double and just the same

 

 

I'll bear that in mind..... Might get some and a trolley jack at the same time as they have one on offer at £25.

 

 

 

 

Cheers

 

Dave.

[Damo]

did u do it with the caliper still fitted or remove it and paint them

With it in situ Adz

[Leon-y-k]

Blue is good! Can you pop so.e wider shots on with the splitter please?

[Damo]

Blue is good! Can you pop so.e wider shots on with the splitter please?

 

Will do Leon

[Damo]

Just finished painting the rear callipers, thankfully the weather was beautiful, and dried them in no time

 

The first coat was a PITA, but the subsequent coats are a piece of cake

 

Remarkable how much better it looks now

 

Love the blue as well, bit different than the norm and isn't too lairy like yellow would be

 

Cant wait for Wednesday now, to get the drop its crying out for

 

Cheers

[Damo]

As promised Leon

 

 

 

 

Hope they are ok for you

 

Cheers

 

Damo

[Leon-y-k]

This looks awesome!

[Leon-y-k]

How much are you lowering it by buddy?

[Damo]

How much are you lowering it by buddy?

They are 40mm springs mate, so hopefully at least that

I reckon with the gap I have now, double that would be more like it needs!

If only I could afford £2.5k for Air :(

[Damo]

This looks awesome!

Cheers mate, its getting there

[Leon-y-k]

I've also seen a set of h&r 40 mm springs will be good to see what you think and if it's still as comfortable as the current set up. Air would be good... just lots of money.

[JakeBlade]

Mate, how did you remove the old wheel centre caps? Did you prise them out, or drill a hole and pull them out with a paper clip or something?

[Gizmo]

Jake, this is an ideal time to copper slip the centre bore chamfer of the wheels (so they don't stick onto the hubs), obviously you need to remove the wheel to do that though, the only way of removing them whilst on the car is by damaging them.