Changed my calipers now, I've gone red... Tim's looked so good, I had to copy. lol... bye-bye black Brembos, hello red Brembos.



Had to make the rear match:



Its "curing" overnight (this brush on caliper paint rocks), I'll take another shot of it tomrrow in the sunlight.

--Daniel

 

nice

 

Sweet

 

 

What brand caliper paint did you use? I want to do my stock ones and the brush-on kind seems the easiest to apply...

 

"pretty", IT ROCKS!!! Actually, im not bowing over the color, Im drooling over your brakes in general.

 

G2 Systems Caliper Paint

High gloss enamel paint...turns rock hard in about 4 hours.

--Daniel

 

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice Pawn

 

Hehe...thx. My old ones are for sale! *shameless plug*

I've moved up to slotted rotors from cross-drilled this time around...not quite as bling, but more set for racing.

Daniel

 

thepawn:

Do you have a mildly used set of dimpled/fire-slotted rotors for sale or are you talking about an old Brembo big brake kit? I'm looking for the former so if you have a set available, please let me know!

Also, what procedure did you take to apply the brake paint? Did you tape off everything or was the brush-on method easy enough to do safely without blocking everything off?

 

My old brembo big brake kit is for sale, never had any other rotors for the front...sorry.

I only taped off the rear rotor a bit and one of the plates on the caliper as well as the brake line and bleeder valve...in hind site, I should have taped off the screw mounts too (got a little paint on them), but overall the paint was pretty easy to work with.... the hardest part was figuring how much of the caliper mount I wanted to matching paint, since a piece of it is visible...

Daniel

 

How come? Did you get the new 15" kit for the Excursions
and Expiditions?????? < DROOL > I want that extra inch of
torque soooooo badly ....

 

LOL...nah, same kit. I wanted to switch to slotted rotors and I found another Lightning owner who was selling his set for a great deal...since I also wanted to red, it was easier to buy his and sell my others off then to paint my black ones and get the new rotors for them. The price I paid for the red ones, as long as I can get near what I'm asking for for the black ones will come out to be about net-zero offset from the cost of a new pair of rotors.

--Daniel

 

SWeet

 

Those look awesome!