Johnny - yea I left the boots on and got a rebuild kit for them too. To be honest, the boots seem fine and probably not much harm was done to them.

Bryan - yes I think the outlander bracket sits the caliper 10% further away from the centre giving you more rotor to use. So outlander rotors are needed aswell.

Alex - totally agree with you, especially when I got all winter to just putter at stuff. There's also lots of sweet shows on the velocity channel that give me motivation.