Brake Overhaul 05
Painting the calipers takes ages to do correctly. You must lay down your coats thinly and wait 10-20 minutes between coats. The wait is longer if it is cold. Thankfully, the weather has been mild and the paint laid down correctly. I settled on silver as the caliper color, as it was the original color and the gold calipers on this real Imola Type-S looked good against the Washi Gray wheels.
Primer dried overnight. Nice and flat.
![20181027_195410.jpg 20181027_195410.jpg](https://www.nsxprime.com/data/attachments/128/128154-c86852842cbb021ad817c224cd375cc9.jpg)
First coats of silver going on.
![20181027_195814.jpg 20181027_195814.jpg](https://www.nsxprime.com/data/attachments/128/128158-45f5cd7e2244f5a4a22342c029f3e4c7.jpg)
![20181027_195821.jpg 20181027_195821.jpg](https://www.nsxprime.com/data/attachments/128/128155-90e3761966e231b4727bbff194ed75e5.jpg)
In between coats, I decided to remove the right front caliper to start the stripping process. After removal, I noticed some kind of thin string had wrapped itself around the wheel hub.
![20181027_205519.jpg 20181027_205519.jpg](https://www.nsxprime.com/data/attachments/128/128156-444ca9f74e01d28ee4419d49b17da5ed.jpg)
After almost 20 minutes carefully picking it out of the hub, this is what I pulled out. My first thought was a thin metal wire, but on closer inspection it looked like thin plastic. Maybe fishing line? This car lived on the coast in Charleston, SC for almost 20 years. Perhaps the owner drove through some old fishing line? I'm fairly certain I removed it all, but may still replace the hub during Stage 1 repaint, since I cannot be sure about whether any plastic got into the bearing race or surfaces. More mysteries with this NSX.
![20181027_210351.jpg 20181027_210351.jpg](https://www.nsxprime.com/data/attachments/128/128157-0ad0404f6bb7d05f4b8bd334348bcb56.jpg)
Painting the calipers takes ages to do correctly. You must lay down your coats thinly and wait 10-20 minutes between coats. The wait is longer if it is cold. Thankfully, the weather has been mild and the paint laid down correctly. I settled on silver as the caliper color, as it was the original color and the gold calipers on this real Imola Type-S looked good against the Washi Gray wheels.
Primer dried overnight. Nice and flat.
![20181027_195410.jpg 20181027_195410.jpg](https://www.nsxprime.com/data/attachments/128/128154-c86852842cbb021ad817c224cd375cc9.jpg)
First coats of silver going on.
![20181027_195814.jpg 20181027_195814.jpg](https://www.nsxprime.com/data/attachments/128/128158-45f5cd7e2244f5a4a22342c029f3e4c7.jpg)
![20181027_195821.jpg 20181027_195821.jpg](https://www.nsxprime.com/data/attachments/128/128155-90e3761966e231b4727bbff194ed75e5.jpg)
In between coats, I decided to remove the right front caliper to start the stripping process. After removal, I noticed some kind of thin string had wrapped itself around the wheel hub.
![20181027_205519.jpg 20181027_205519.jpg](https://www.nsxprime.com/data/attachments/128/128156-444ca9f74e01d28ee4419d49b17da5ed.jpg)
After almost 20 minutes carefully picking it out of the hub, this is what I pulled out. My first thought was a thin metal wire, but on closer inspection it looked like thin plastic. Maybe fishing line? This car lived on the coast in Charleston, SC for almost 20 years. Perhaps the owner drove through some old fishing line? I'm fairly certain I removed it all, but may still replace the hub during Stage 1 repaint, since I cannot be sure about whether any plastic got into the bearing race or surfaces. More mysteries with this NSX.
![20181027_210351.jpg 20181027_210351.jpg](https://www.nsxprime.com/data/attachments/128/128157-0ad0404f6bb7d05f4b8bd334348bcb56.jpg)
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