Painting Brake Calipers

[ccd0764]

I would like to paint my brake calipers red....Has anyone done this before? How did you do it, brushed or sprayed? Were did you get the paint? I have 2000 V6 camaro. Four wheel Disc Brakes. Thanks for any response in advance.
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[Sean_99_3.8]

Re: Painting Brake Calipers

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[tkoforpresident]

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nope, noones ever done this before.

you are a pioneer.

[lookout4theyeti]

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I painted mine black. I don't think I can help you since your doing red and I'm not familiar with that.

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Pull the wheels off, spray some brake cleaner on everything. 4 bolts take off the caliper and caliper bracket. Take the rotor off. Clean the calipers and brackets really good (ie, sanding). Use duplicolor caliper paint from autozone and do a few good coats and then clearcoat. Make sure you mask everything you don't want paint to get on. Let it dry and put everything back together.

Heres how mine came out





You can see I also got the CAMARO vinyls that go on the front calipers. I clearcoated over those as well to seal them in.

[cam98aro]

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i used the brush on stuff, and after about 2 years it all chipped off and stuff, so DONT buy a cheap kit (i got mine at pep boys)

it looks like crap now..

but here is how it looked right after i did it:

[Smoke Panther]

Re: Painting Brake Calipers

I would like to paint my brake calipers red....Has anyone done this before?

tons

How did you do it, brushed or sprayed?

both

Were did you get the paint?

any store that sells high-temp paint

[whitdog54]

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doing mine friday, just doing it black nothing fancy....do i even need to clear it??

[Smoke Panther]

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^if you want it to last more than a week without chipping, that would be a good idea

[Bird_Of_Prey]

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Honestly, just cleaning them and slightly polishing them looks really good and requires minimal maintainence.

[crushedout]

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When I did mine I was replacing calipers so they were new. I put about 3 coats of brush duplicolor red paint kit and about 3 coats of rattle can clear and it looked great. Then after a few months it was chipped and looked like poo. I've heard if you do this and then bake the calipers it helps but I dunno, just something I heard, never tried it, and it requires removing caliper of course which equals a little more work with bleeding, not sure if you wanna do that or not.

[romm333]

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clean them really really well, you want a very clean surface. if you have a wire brush or some type of grinder to give you a smooth surface, the comes about 2 coats of high temp spray primer, followed by a couple coats of duplicolor let it dry, then i used a couple coats of high temp clear coat. havent had any problems, if you do it right the first time, there wont be a second time.

[lookout4theyeti]

Re: Painting Brake Calipers

clean them really really well, you want a very clean surface. if you have a wire brush or some type of grinder to give you a smooth surface, the comes about 2 coats of high temp spray primer, followed by a couple coats of duplicolor let it dry, then i used a couple coats of high temp clear coat. havent had any problems, if you do it right the first time, there wont be a second time.

Yea, i forgot to add that I used a couple coats of primer on mine too. The caliper paint says you don't need it, but its definitally a good idea.

[DAS BOOT]

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I used spray with black, and brush on with red. about 6 months, 8k miles, no issues.

[96firebird311]

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I used the G2 paint kit:
http://www.g2usa.com/

Got it off eBay a year ago for like 25 bucks. I prepped extremely well because I knew that would make or break this project. Mainly used a wire toothbrush. I honestly spent an hour and a half PER caliper and rotor hub. (Both rust, (if you note the pictures above) so I painted both) About a year later and not a single chip.