caliper paint

[95camaro3800]

im planning on painting my brake calipers red.. do i need to use a special type of paint? what works best? where would i find it?

[Mystic98]

Re: caliper paint

i used a duplicolor paint on kit and it worked great and looks good. only think i didnt do was clear them

[flyfrito_SS]

Re: caliper paint

They have High temp Caliper piant, go to like auto zone and such. Also make sure you scrub those suckers good before you pain them. And let the coats dry at least 30-40 mins in between. Good luck!

[95camaro3800]

Re: caliper paint

i probably sound really lazy for asking this, but can you give me an estimate on the average cost?? do i need to just get like a bottle, or wut?? by the way, im only doing the front brakes, the rear are drums :(

[flyfrito_SS]

Re: caliper paint

Ya a bottle should be fine, I would look into getting some high temp clear coat also. This site sells cool Camaro decals for you brakes, they look real neat when they are done. http://fourthcircledesigns.com/index.php?cPath=2

[RawrImAMonster]

Re: caliper paint

I used the Duplicolor brake caliper paint kit. It comes with everything you need. No clear coat is required.



Thats what mine looked like after they were done. Also, its been a few weeks now atleast and they are still looking as good. I paid about 15 dollars for the kit. Be prepared to take a while to paint them. Those back ones are time consuming.

Edit: Nevermind, I just saw that you were doing the front ones. They are pretty easy. Heres a picture of the front:

[kristen]

Re: caliper paint

i got filler primer, high temp paint and then some clear coat. all from autozone
http://forum.camarov6.com/showthread...light=calipers

[99camaro-3.8]

Re: caliper paint

pepboys, autozone, advance auto all those places have the caliper paint. what i did was buy engine primer, engine paint, and then engine clear coat. the engine stuff works just as good cuz its meant for high-temp areas. make sure you sand down the calipers to get all the crud off of them. i sanded them down, 2 coats of primer, 2 coats of paint, 3 coats of clear. took a lot of time but they look really good