How To Paint Brake Calipers

[Chris Hacker]

How do you do this? I don't think you can take them off....so I'm not sure how?? Anyone?

[TheRealWave]

heres some links
http://ls1.fbody.com/install_paintcalipers.html
http://www.2phast.com/Corvette/calipers.htm
http://www.bfranker.badz28.com/fbody/calipers.htm
http://w3.one.net/~marc/mustang/calipers/

[Oryan02]

I would take the entire caliper off the rotor and hang it with safetywire or a coat hanger and paint it. Then put it all back together after it dries. I hate to see painted pads. :mad: If you paint just the calipers and mount plates then it should look pretty good. [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

[silicuda]

My caliper & drum painting experience is that if you paint the calipers/drums only once or twice with high heat paint, they tend to heat and partially burn off here and there.... so it is a great idea to paint it at least 3 times, and then apply an even higher temp clear coat at least once..

I painted my rear drums twice originally and noticed that the paint on the edge of the drum came off a little bit, so I took it off and repainted the things again but this time 2 more times, and now its all fine. The painted drums also had a burnt paint smell effect after the initial paint process, this took a couple of days to go away and now there is no smell.

I will be painting my calipers as well (making sure I apply 3 coats of black, and 1 coat of clear), as soon as my caliper metal decals arrive...

here is a pic of the decals that is a great addition to any caliper (makes it look great...)



Hope this info helps you a little more [img]smile.gif[/img]

[thabomb180]

Im most likely going to change my brake pads this weekend...should i paint my calipers while i have the pads off?? or do i paint the calipers before i take the old pads off??

[Dominic]

Paint them before you take the pads off so that when you swap pads you have normal looking pads behind the painted calipers.

I, too, hate painted pads.

[silicuda]

You take the caliper off, take the pads out, and paint it that way... at least that is what I am going to do..

[thabomb180]

where can i get the camaro letters that go on the caliper?? i treid ebay. anybody know any other places?

[Steve Caroccia]

Decals: http://firebatscave.deeztech.com\firebird.hml

As for painting, I didn't use high temp paint and I opted to paint with a brush instead of aerosol to control the overspray. I also sanded the surface with my dremel. Sorry no pics,

[Oryan02]

Paint the caliper when the pads are off and the caliper is hanging there.(Use safetywire or a coat hangar to prevent stress on the brake lines)

[Chris Hacker]

decal link does not work

[silicuda]

thabomb180 : http://store.yahoo.com/afterthoughts...rakcaldec.html

20USD for two, includes shipping, made outta metal... great deal

[thabomb180]

thanks silicuda...i was wondering why they were so expensive the first time i saw them..now i realize that there metal.