First time getting the car up on a lift and I am shocked at what I see, will post pics later. Everything under the car is brown, doesn't look like salt rust but it is definitely crusty. Drove the car and everything so far works, really well. The problem is I hate the crust and want it gone.

The car has 54K miles and obviously sat outside for a long while. Will be starting with the brakes as they look bad behind my wheels. See autozone blanks work fine, but I am on the fence with the calipers. Should I clean and rebuild or buy new ones?

Seven

 

IMO rebuild if needed, oem kits are cheap and easy to do. Repaint with gold and will look and feel new

 

if you've got more money then time, buy new.

if you've got more time then money, rebuild.

 

I believe centric brake calipers come with the oem zinc coating on the calipers most others dint have the zinc coating

 

I bought brand new front and rear calipers from Honda. Shipped over from Japan (by boat) and sealed in packages with super sweet Japanese writing on them. No gold, I seem to be confused lol. Seriously though they are just silver.

 

Only rebuild if you know what your doing. Don't want to risk your life on a miss hap.

 

How much were these? Where did you order from?

Where are these sold?

Currently in school, getting ready to start a hatch build and in the military, time is kinda short. Didn't want to paint and like the looks of new calipers. Will be replacing everything I see that is crusty, kind of **** like that.

 

Around $500? from Acura of Peoria in Arizona. The front calipers are cheap! But the rears because they are Type R specific and are not used on any other model they were most of the cost.

 

Thanks, Bro

 

Good words to live by.

 

You can pretty much get set of Rebuilt nsx front calipers for that price!! I wouldn't worry about the rears too much if they really aren't that bad... i seen them sell each side time to time! http://www.ebay.com/itm/Centric-Part...6e9f05&vxp=mtr

 

Cool but I got 4 brand new from Honda fully assembled with brackets and all for under $500. It's a steep investment at first but you can easily sell the old calipers, which I plan on doing, and you can sleep easy knowing those calipers are probably going to last another 100,000 miles which I would rebuild at that point.

 

I made the mistake of not painting my centric type R calipers when I put them on my DB8. They now have oxidation all over the caliper. I believe they sandblast away the OEM corrosion coating when rebuilding the calipers at their factory. If I were to do it again, purchase centric R calipers and paint before install.

BTW, I bought my parts on rockauto. I believe the calipers were $32 each.

 

Would you happen to know what brackets you use with those nsx calipers? I've searched but can't find it.