Morning Tim,
Caliper painting was...not as easy as I'd hoped as it's all brush work, but you can scotch brite it down for a smoother finish and then polish it up, my finish on marks out of 10 would be an 8-9....I'm waiting to see how the whole paint jobe perfoms before I make my mind up over lacquering over the sticker, I really want to see how high temp they are before comitting myself. I'd hate to lacquer it all only to have the sticker bubble up underneath and ruin it all.
New dampers and springs, H&R springs, Bilstein sport dampers, I paid about £740 for them, and fitted them myself, not an easy task when all you have in the garage is a set of axle stands, its difficult to release the rear lower bolts, I needed a 4 ft breaker bar to release them, they are normally very tight. I did enquire about fitting from various places, they all want £300+ I thought that would be better spent elsewhere...There is a small write up on my website, with one caveat I need to change one picture about the rear measuring point, I included the wrong one...
Tat, wheels are 7/12 and 9 with offsets of 52 and 50, no spacers fitted yet, I'm seeing how they run first, the rear is quite close, so I'll be using chalk to mark everywhere and see if I hit anything, the outside wheel arch looks tight......I might just get some more negative camber dialled in to help, spacers would at the rear make this worse, though the front I might need 3-5mm to avoid the inside wing where there is a slight rub.
Kevin