To prep the calipers, I sprayed them with brake parts cleaner and while they were still wet I scrubbed them with a stainless steel wire brush. The cleaner softened up the original black paint enough for the wire brush to knock of the shiny surface. After a good brushing, I wiped down with a shop towel and resprayed. Then I masked the caliper off and sprayed each one with 3 coats of Ford Red engine paint rated for 500* F.

Took less than an hour to do and I think the results were positive!

 

Looks good

 

Awesome. Im doing my soon too! Think those will turn orange on you though? Im going with red on a black truck.

 

I remember someone saying that thiers turned kinda orange, so it might... but I did use hi-temp engine paint, so if it does it will probably be a while. However, a single frest coat of paint will fix that!

 

Lookin' sweet!

Flying ****, post pics of yours when you do it, I want to see how the black looks..

Keegan

 

I like it. I did mine this weekend also. I used 1200* red engine paint.

 

Phillip, I like the way you masked over the 2 recesses in the caliper... Notice I painted all of mine.

 

A RED LIGHTING MMmMMmMmMmM................Look's good !!! God i love red !!!!

 

Here's a pic of red calipers on a blackL and on my brand new '02 GT. I used less than one spray can of Plati-Kote to do both sets.



The calipers on the L have been on for over 5 months and still look new.

 

Yea, I masked off the two places just to be different. On the rear, I was thinking about painting the little area down by the hub in a black, just to clean it up, but decided I didn't have enough time, oh well, another day will come.

 

make sure you take out the pads and cover the piston area. It looks much better that way...

 

Those look very nice Phillip