2nd Gen R56 Cooper S Most liked posts in thread: Poor Mans Caliper upgrade?

What's on the outside doesn't hurt anything as long as they work correctly.

Good/cheap are mutually exclusive terms.

I think the cheapest/best way to go would be to simply replace with like and if you want a little more performance get some more aggressive pads, but I've never seen an autocross that would outdrive the stock brakes on a MINI, they're pretty terrific right out of the box.

Except for the black dust.....man I hate that black dust!

 

If the scaly bits bother you...

Have them media blasted and then powder coated and go with some performance pads...

Any good powder coater should have the ability to media blast the parts, so it's a "one stop shop"...

Or spend a bunch of your time with a wire wheel on a drill and paint them with special caliper paint...

But they will never look as good as the powder coat option... So choices / choices....

 

Refinish them....or just buy a second pair and then swap them....if the insides are good, the exterior is just decoration.
No bbk will fit with your winter rims....so you are going to have to use about the same as what you have...
I do take back about NO BBK kit...but no common one...there was the bmf (I think) Wildwood that would fit with 8 inch wide 15" rim...lol...kind extreme. Yeah...the disc was huge.. thick...

 

Detroit Tuned makes a kit that fits under my 15x8 track wheels, also.

But, as has bees said, your best option is to stick with the R56s brakes.

 

I have used Dupli-colors ceramic paint and it looks great and lasts. It a lot cheaper than powder coating.

 

+1 on Dupli-Color...and beer. Paint the disc hats at the same time for added pop.

 

What's your mixture ratio of beer to paint ??

 

That's hard to say. Totally depends on the beer. You've got your 'sex in a canoe' lite at 3.2 down to O'Doul's clear up to one of my favorite imperial stouts at 11.6 ABV. The affect of that on the paint shows up in how widely it is spread and where.