Hey guys, I have a car show on saturday, so I'm going to be painting my brake calipers on wednesday. I already have the paint i just have a few how-to questions. The paint i got was high temp engine paint so it should hold up to the heat. I did'nt wanna take the calipers off though, and i don't want any overspray so i was wondering if i could spray it in a containor and brush it on. I don' t really care if it holds up forever, but i don't want it to come off in a week or so. Any tips or anything for painting them??? Also, can i paint the outter edge of the disc, where it gets all rusty? and should i clean the calipers with alchol before i paint them? Thanks for the help and any tips/suggestions

 

Will the paint be black? Iam just wondering. I think that bright colors look a little ricey.

 

no rice here. . THe calipers are a goldish color stock, yuck, so i got flat silver paint for them. It won't stand out too much, but if you get close to the rim it will look better than the stock color. Pics will come next weekend after i do it.

 

Thats cool, good luck on the project.

 

I painted the calipers today

Here's the pic of the unpainted caliper



Here's a pic of it painted ( i did the caliper, center *** thingy in the middle of rotor, and the edges of the disk to cover up the rust) Any of the paint that got on the disc itself already wore off just from pulling my HD out of the drive on the one side of my house, into the drive on the other side so it looks a little better now


And here's a pic of it with the rim on. It looks a little grayish in the pic, but its more silvery in person. Its flat silver though cuz that's all they had in high temp paint, but it looks better than unpainted. I'm gonna head out to homedepot 2morrow and pick up some gloss silver rustoleum and redo them later sometime, but its good enough for the show on saturday. It won't be too ricy with the gloss silver, and it won't look gray in certain lights either)



Anyway, i just bought high temp engine spray paint, and sprayed it into an empty little jar. I used half a can for the 4 calipers and center **** things, and edges of discs, but about 2/3's of that was overspray trying to spray it into the container. But i did that on the other side of my house so none of the overspray would get on my HD. Then i just brushed it on and it worked great after i cleaned the brakes with water and then alchol. A little watery, but it made it easier to get into the tight spots. If anybodys' got any questions about doin yours, just ask and i'll try to help

more pics in my gallery. O yeah, i noticed little SVT stickers on my front springs. Thought it was pretty neat.

 

Just a tip, when you paint make sure you don't get too much paint on the brake hardware that the pads slide back and forth on. That area should be lubed with antiseize. I worked on a riced out Celica yesterday. The kid painted the calipers,etc, but he got to much paint around the edges of the pads so they wouldn't slide back and forth. The brake piston actually bent the pad backing into a u-shape causing the pad to separate from the backing. Luckily this happened in the rear. If it was on the front and fully came apart it could have been bad.

Just a thought.

-Jon

 

http://www.clublexus.com/forums/show...=Caliper+Paint


Pics Here:

http://www.clublexus.com/cgi-bin/pho....pl?photo=3712
http://www.clublexus.com/cgi-bin/pho....pl?photo=3713

Alot of guys at ClubLexus and IS300.net have used this stuff and it stands up to alot of hard driving/braking. Very glossy finish (at least the black is), I am planning on doing the rotor hubs in silver, when I get some time. Probably won't do my Expy unless I get some rims that show off the brakes.