by "Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
Published 01/17/2017 at 16:36
by "Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
Published 01/17/2017 at 16:36
Tags: partslopnik
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When you just want cheap brake drums from O’Reilly for your Honda but they only got CHROME(?)
http://www.oreillyauto.com/site/c/detail/BBR2/9775DGS/01269.oap
"Nerd-Vol" (Nerd-Vol)
01/17/2017 at 16:38, STARS: 1
Wow. A testament to questionable taste!
"LongbowMkII" (longbowmkii)
01/17/2017 at 16:40, STARS: 3
Flat black spray paint
"crowmolly" (crowmolly)
01/17/2017 at 16:41, STARS: 0
Gotta be polished for the pic. Right?
"dogisbadob" (dogisbadob)
01/17/2017 at 16:51, STARS: 0
it’ll rust in a week anyway :(
Silver painted drums aren’t rice. Drums are OK to be painted silver, black, brown, or gray. It’s not like it’s red or s\anything, then *that* would be rice!
See if you can get a drum with the black E-coating to deter rust. Centric Premium or Wagner’s new E-coat drums.
Drums can be so difficult to replace it might actually be easier to convert to rear discs than just replacing the drums!
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
01/17/2017 at 17:02, STARS: 1
I don’t think that’s chrome. The reflections aren’t very sharp. I’m guessing it’s just a satin finish that happened to catch some bright light as the picture was taken.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
01/17/2017 at 17:05, STARS: 1
He’d have to get them very hot to set loose a chrome finish, and with rear drums on a FWD car I don’t see that happening. Chrome finish =/= silver paint. Much higher thermal resistance than most coatings that exist. Chrome finish on drums is a bit ridiculous, though if they’re finned bright aluminum and on a traditional hot rod you can make some exceptions:
Also, I have literally no idea what you mean by “drums so hard to replace it might be easier to convert”. Drums can be hard to remove, yes, but replace once they’ve been removed, absolutely not.
"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit)
01/17/2017 at 17:06, STARS: 1
Get out of here with your facts and thangs.
"dogisbadob" (dogisbadob)
01/17/2017 at 17:09, STARS: 0
Yeah, but you’ll never have to do it again if you switch to rear discs. And do you really trust the quality of the chrome finish on a cheap drum like that?
"Urambo Tauro" (urambotauro)
01/17/2017 at 17:12, STARS: 5
Fine then.
"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
01/17/2017 at 17:17, STARS: 1
You’ll never have to remove the drums again with a rear disc switch, true, but considering there’s probably only like two more rear brake jobs in ownership of the car ever, the installation of the rear discs isn’t an effort-saver. Not really, unless he’s pretending it’s #racecar, and unless we’re assuming the drum gets stuck *every time*.
Point made on crappy chrome finish - then again, what seems to eat chrome finish like no other is brake dust, and I think (paradoxically) with the lower generation of dust and greater containment in a set of rear drums, you could have these on and see them rust *more slowly* than a set of badly chromed front wheels on the same car...
"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
01/17/2017 at 18:04, STARS: 0
I’d paint them black or grey so they won’t rust. Win-win. (Or body color! :)