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Old May 20, 2010 | 10:15 AM
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Default Re: New CF Coupe Owner

Originally Posted by red87droptop
Thanks guys, yeah I thought it was a pretty good deal also. It does need rear tires and could use some brakes at some point. I'm a bit **** so I intend to take things slow and do clean up while repairing, thinking of painting the calipers Red and getting the Crossfire decals for them and upgrading the pads to something that leaves less dust.....probably ceramic pads. I also intend to repaint the engine cover a two tone dark/light Grey combo and replace the plastic air ducts with aluminum pieces. The car has sat in the shop since September 09 and was never picked up so they got a title and sold it. Its really dusty under the hood and is in need of major detail work but I intend to fix that !!! Thanks again for the great welcome, Jerry
The 2 most popular choices for ceramic brake pads for this car are either Akebono or Rotex Gold. Both are great choices. I went with the Akebonos, and have had 0 brake dust since.

For the engine bay, I have found that using a 50/50 mix of Simple Green and water to clean the engine bay, and CD-2 to detail the engine bay works great.

Here is a picture of mine with only about 20 minutes of work using this method.

 
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