BERYLLIUM BMW 323ci.

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i'm working on the brakes. These will stay original, but they will look a lot better once i'll be ready.

The caliper claws will get a silver paint finish.

I also want to make the protection plates behind the discs a little larger (2cm smaller than the inside of the rims)

The idea is to make these plates in carbon kevlar.

The major part of the work on these modifications will be the supports that have to attach the carbon kevlar plates.

One spypic...........:excited::excited:

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The most difficult part of the work on the protection plates is done. Because the ones that were originally mounted weren't stong enough, i needed to make the supports myself. These are the ones for the front .

Was a lot of work to give them a perfect finish. You should come and have a look under my car to see what a hard job it was :-)

Here you can see the shape of the protection plates i made.

This is not the final product, just the mould I made to have the job done.

Where the ring stops is where the original brake calipers should fit.

Next I will made some kind of boomerang, that will be the coolest part of this modification.

This one comes 3cm more to the outside (compared to the protection plate)

Now I'm going to make the protection plate in carbon Kevlar,

and then 2 sets of boomerangs, one set in carbon and one set in bright red.

Then i can compare the results when they are mounted and decide which set I'll keep.

I'll also have the lettering "BERYLLIUM" in white paint on the boomerangs.

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Here you can see the support for the protection plate.

If you take a closer look you can also see the original plate, which now is onlly the size of de dics brake.The supports is bolt on the same bolts that hold the brake caliper claw.

And this is disk I can slide over it, the one I will use as mold for th carbon kevlar parts.

The whole thing is attached with 5 bolts (size M5).

Here you can see all parts, the boomerang included.

You can also see that the boomerang comes 3cm more forward than the plate itself.

The disc is 1cm smaller than the perimeter of the wheel.

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And then I've put 3 extra layers of fibreglass cloth over it to make it extra strong.

Once it all dried up and hardened out, I pulled it off the glass, and this is the result :

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I made a carbon version of the boomerangs as well

Here a picture with the carbon kevlar plates, the brake caliper claws still need a paintjob.

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On this picture you can see that the rear side of the disc is complete open, so it sits free in the wind.:read::read::read:

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The brake caliper claws got their first layer of primer.

And I also made new carbon centercaps for the wheels.

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I've sanded the brakes a second time and now they're ready to be painted "Titan Silver".

No need to tell you that is took hours of labour to get them nice and smooth.

And believe me, this will be the last time i've done something like this.

picture front set:

Picture rear:

I'm also planning to have the outside of the brakediscs painted alswell.

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Conserning the Carbonkevlar discs, i've sprayed another layer on them.

The boomerangs are equiped with a "Beryllium"- logo.

and a set of carbon

These will be the disks mounted in the center of the wheel.

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he caliper claws are finish. Paint TITAN SILVER.

Front.

Rear.

TITANSILVER boemerangs.

Build them out of carbon fiber.

brake rotors (SILVER).