Painted brake calibers

[LowFlyR]

Originally Posted by Kirk

I understand... the red paint on my S looks fine, it's just the clear coat that's screwed up from the previous owner or shop being messy when bleeding the brakes. I used the 3G, or whatever it is, caliper paint on my Honduh daily driver about six years ago and the paint still looks perfect today, no clear coat. Unless you can find a caliper heat friendly clear coat I would understand skipping that step.

Kirk

Yeah, I was reading through several forums and a lot of people had their clear coat cracked. My own looked awful, that kind of sealed it.

[RandallNeighbour]

Very nice job! Did you remove them to paint them, or leave them on the car?

I left mine on and wish I'd removed them now... it's so easy to do if your top bolts aren't rusty at the tips, requiring five hours to remove them and inserts to be put in so as to get them back on securely (which is what happened when I finally removed my calipers to swap the disks out.

[LowFlyR]

Originally Posted by RandallNeighbour

Very nice job! Did you remove them to paint them, or leave them on the car?

I left mine on and wish I'd removed them now... it's so easy to do if your top bolts aren't rusty at the tips, requiring five hours to remove them and inserts to be put in so as to get them back on securely (which is what happened when I finally removed my calipers to swap the disks out.

I did NOT remove them. If I would have done that, I could have done this 6 months ago. Temp range for this paint is 56-70F and in Las Vegas I had to wait a little while after I bought this paint in April...

Not that cool here in the summer...