Painting Calipers Question

[9eighty6]

Painted Calipers Yellow

Also see the thread above for final results

[crios]

Hi Sean,
Here's some good step-by-step intructions if you wanted to pull your brakes and paint them with a spray can versus a brush.
http://www.pedrosgarage.com/Site%203/Paint%20the%20Calipers.html

I did mines with G2 Brush, and would suggest doing this way as well. It was very very easy and G2 can withstand 900 degrees, while the spary is only rated to 450.

If I did again, I would buy a better brush at a craft store than the one that comes with it.

The decals you should get are 3 inch ones.

I also brushed all areas as seen here:

[Burg Boxster]

Some quick thoughts (as lots of others are in the archives):

- brush or spray, either works just depends on how clean/neat/patient you are...

- prep is the key - I'd advise at least 3 cans of brake cleaner to do the job thoroughly

- If you brush, definitely pick up some smaller brushes from a craft store

- punch out 4 piece of painters tape in a std notebook hole punch. it's the perfect size for the brake pad retaining pin

- painters tape works well as does alum foil (in lieu of newspaper/plastic bags in protecting the rotors, etc.)


- when applying the decals, make sure the paint (spray or brush) has dried at least 24 hours.

- use either soapy water or painters tape to help center/align the decals on the calipers

Good luck and post some pics when finished

Here's the closest I have of my finished product.

[JAAY]

This is the link to my caliper guide

I hope this helps you a bit.

New rotors and calipers painted today step by step

One word of advice. Buy extra decals. There not that easy to put on some times.

[23109VC]

Cesar/Crios -

i see that those little round things - are those the pins that go through the caliper - they are just below the "P" and the "E" in the Porsche decal in your big photo... are those supposed to be painted or are those supposed to be left black? you painted yours and it looks cool...but i wonder the next time i do brakes, if i'll have to bang that out and ruin the paint?

[crios]

It was just easier to paint. Not sure what will happen when I change out the brakes, I'm sure I'll simple have to do some touch up painting, but till then, they look nice!

[23109VC]

I'm going to pick up my paint kit in the next day or two.

still undecided if I'm going to do RED or YELLOW. I think YELLOW looks the best, but not sure if it's too " in your face "..

another question - when I spray the heck out of my calipers with brake cleaner, and scrub them - does it matter if any of the cleaner gets onto the pads??? i'm NOT going to disassemble anything.. my brakes were redone w/in the last 6 months and the fluid was flushes..do my brakes are good and this is purely for cosmetics...and I want to do it in a day/easiest way possible... so i'm going to paint them wiht a brush, and just mask stuff off.

i also have rusted front calipers - so I'm goign to scrub and paint the hats while the wheels are off... my rear brakes have the OEM "black" finish, so I may paint the hats black to match those. or i'll redo ALL the hats in a silver finish.

RED or YELLOW - decisions decision decisions.

when I see Crios' car - I want to go yellow! it looks HOT!