i'm slowly collecting, cleaning components for my 82 Gios so i'll have nice shiny parts to hang on it after i get it repainted sometime in the future. right now i'm working on the brake calipers. from reading the archives, i understand the calipers changed from 82 to 83. now i have a set of brakes (pre-83) and a couple sets(post-83), i'm guessing this by the campy font and types of center nuts.
my pre-83 brakes have some small parts that are rusty like the quick release assembly, cable adjuster assembly, center bolt and the center bolt nut rusted on 1 and is a plain nut(not dome or pyramid) on the other. basically everything is in rough shape except for the calipers themselves. now my post 83 brakes have all these small bits in good order, except the calipers aren't as nice as the block lettered calipers.
is it simple enough to swap the block lettered calipers and the small parts used on the script lettered calipers? and if so, does anyone have small domed nuts, so the sets look like they actually came that way? i'm assuming domed go with block letters and the pyramid nuts go with the script lettered calipers - at least that's how they kind of are now. are my assumptions about pre and post 83 even correct?
just trying to get a proper and nice looking set of SR brakes for my 82 SR.
Eric Acuna
Santa Rosa, CA