C5 & C6 Corvette Brakes (From Nasty to Beautiful - on a Budget!)
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 28. 08. 2024
- If C5 or C6 Corvette Brakes have seen better days but still work fine you can still give them a visual overhaul by cleaning, painting and detailing them.
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Visually, new drilled and slotted rotors were actually a big change I wasn't anticipating making as much of a difference as it did. Perfect combo with a little paint
Very well done. Always enjoy watching new content from you.
Thank you very much!
I didn't think the blue would look right, but I actually like it. Nice job.
Great work, looks awesome!
Always great advice and information! Congrats on the beautiful c6 and thank you for all your content, you have helped me out a bunch! Brakes and wheels are looking great btw đ
Getting away from the standard red is a great idea. My C5 is triple black. I did the calipers black. Looks awesome.
I hadn't thought about painting the rotor hats and the caliper brackets, that adds a subtle but noticeable difference.
Love your channel. I didn't realize you grabbed a c6. I see you still have the c5, under tarp? I must have been missing your channel. IM subscribed. Thanks for this. I am think of upgrading my c5 brakes, the rear discs are a joke. LOVING the A&A. WOW what a difference...
Thanks for the kind words! I bought the C6 about a year ago and I kind of rotate the five and the six, I thought maybe I'd sell one of them but I love them both. I don't think I've met anybody yet who doesn't like the A&A kit!! I'll have to get rid of one of them before I get a c8 though. đ
Looks fantastic! Nice job and I love the blue.
Thank you! Cheers!
Agree with the blue!
Very informative video, thanks.
Wow what a difference
Looking good!!
Thank you, much appreciated!
I like the covers myself. Brakes run cooler. Brake dust is contained.
I could be Wong.
How did you highlight the Corvette lettering after you painted the caliper? They look awesome!
I lightly sanded them first as they are raised, and then once I painted them my wiped them off gently with solvent, and then I clear coated the whole thing. Glad you like them!
You left out an important item on the caliper paint.....how did you maintain the silver lettering?
Crap, if only I could edit the video on CZcams, but you can't. I wiped it off with solvent while the blue was still sticky. Then I gave it a quick shot of clear coat.
@@Toys4Life When I did my C6 in yellow I waited until dry and used a razor blade and scraped it across the letters. Looked on from 20 feet but close up? Not so much.
@@nyerngaSince they're raised any reason you can't just use sandpaper or a flat file to remove any remaining paint? The letters should shine like new then.
Sandpaper would etch the shine off
Iâve used Carmex lip balm (stick version) on them, paint as usual and wiped it off with a rag from the letters after. Works like a champ!
I have a LeMans Blue 04 Commemorative Edition. Looking to paint my Calipers. Please give me some color recommendations (including the color of the Corvette lettering)! Currently, all of my lights are smoked and I have the hyper silver C6 Z06 rims so please keep that in consideration.
Always drilled and slotted rotors if you do hard driving. The heat will kill a rotor. The pads leave tooooooo much dust.
Cracks no bueno.
@Toys4Life runout man! When brakes get hot and youre running a little faster on the street that might should be. Those rotors come in handy but on a budget, check thickness, get them turned and call it a day
Iâm just curious but why didnât you paint the caliper mounting brackets. Iâm 58 and just got my first corvette,a 2001 red C5, but first the harmonic balancer.
I did, it's in the video. They're painted almost to look like cast aluminum /cast steel. Enjoy the heck out of that car this summer đ
Quick question: I'll be buying a C5 (2001 or newer ideally) and am struggling between the decision of manual vs an automatic. I know I would love the feel of shifting gears and being dialed into the car, but they pain of driving manual could very easily get annoying after some time. Anyway, what are your thoughts on manual vs automatic C5s performance and experience wise? (I will be modding for more HP and potentially supercharging)
Generally speaking, if you are going to daily drive it in a ton of traffic 5 days a week, I certainly can understand an automatic. Otherwise in my opinion, the C5 is a sports car that really really shines with a manual. If you were going to do a ton of drag racing, I'd get an automatic but then again I would get a Camaro for something like that if that was my intended use. The internet crowd will all chant manual, but at the end of the day it's totally up to you and not them. Hope this helps.
i might have missed it but is the fiero still around?!
Should have put new pads on since you already had everything apart and maybe rotors even though everything looked ok
I miss my C5 now
Did you get a different Corvette or just get out of Corvettes?
@@Toys4Life sold it for a piece of land. Wanting to get another one now
c6 z06 wheels?
The painting came out nicely. But Iâm just not a fan of the blue on a red car. đŽđŽ===đŽđŽ
Thanks and that's okay đ Out of curiosity would you go red or what color would you use?
Red on red I think is a classic. Black also has a nice contrast to red.@@Toys4Life
Covers look kind of cheap