Brake Calipers

[astroham]

Ok i know that some of you are going to be ########s but here it goes anyway ...

I am wanting to paint my brake calipers ... does anyone know of somewhere that you can get the paint for doing this, and is there a fairly wide selection of colours or just like 4 or 5

[pjdm1980]

You'd probably just be able to clean/prep them, undercoat and paint with high temp paint.

[TinSnips]

fairly certain high-temp paint is self priming (going from my increasingly unreliable memory) - you can also pick up 'calliper paint' from Repco (used to be able to at least) - same stuff though, different can and probably 5 bucks more expensive!

[Voodoo_SV6]

I have found 3M make the best stuff, only 5 minutes between coats, rather than an hour plus from some that I have used. Nice glossy finish too, and no, they don't require primer, just make sure you prep the calipers right with a wire brush (or better still a wire brush attachment on your electric drill) and then some wax and grease remover, then just spray away

[Hym1e]

How to paint your brakes

There is another how to somewhere on here but this may help you

[astroham]

thanks for the link ... and good to know its easy to get the paint ... but would i just get it from any car shop or something ...

Also i have attached a photo of my car ... opinions on what colour?

[RUF-60L]

black...

(thats a weird angle, makes ur car look like a short wheel base model haha :P)

[astroham]

lol yeah was taken on the phone and i had trouble gtting it all in cause there is a wall behind me

[Pickle']

purple caliper paint

Thats what i got back when i asked the same question, Never got around to doing it though.

[Bradbd]

Ok i know that some of you are going to be ########s but here it goes anyway ...

I am wanting to paint my brake calipers ... does anyone know of somewhere that you can get the paint for doing this, and is there a fairly wide selection of colours or just like 4 or 5

Set me back around $100 to get 2 G2 kits shipped from the states. Applied the 1st kit then sanded it back a couple of days later and then painted again with the 2nd kit.

G2 Brake Caliper Paint System Set

[bonners]

Set me back around $100 to get 2 G2 kits shipped from the states. Applied the 1st kit then sanded it back a couple of days later and then painted again with the 2nd kit.

G2 Brake Caliper Paint System Set

I used this on my brakes. If you have a look at the G2 site there are tonnes of colours and if you have a particular colour you want and you have a paint code, they will match it.

I was very lucky when I did mine as I had a mates 2nd set of SS caliper lying around. So I spent heaps of time prepping them with a wire brush for the end of the drill. I used prepsol first but found it didnt really clean the calipers. The wire brush was perfect. I tried a dremel one first but found it wore out too quickly. It was good for the tricker areas though.

Then I just painted them as per instructions. G2 is a two part system you can just brush on or you can get a preval sprayer and spray it on like an aerosol. Then when fully dried we took the brakes off mine and put the new painted ones on.

Thats a the best way

However, I recently changed the look of the car and needed to get rid of the orange. So, leaving the brakes on, I rubbed them back with a scotchbrite pad. Then I cleaned them with prepsol, masked up the entire area of the wheel with newspaper and masking tape and sprayed the calipers with silver VHT brake paint. Looks a treat. Not perfect but unless you are doing a full on inspection of my calipers you'd n ever know. I didnt go to too much effort because I am getting my new brakes soon

I'll post up some pics later of the stuff I have done

[TrikkBen]

Use VHT Caliper paint. VHT is the best auto paint IMO

[Bradbd]

G2 is a two part system you can just brush on or you can get a preval sprayer and spray it on like an aerosol.

You'd need to add a thinning agent to the paint in order for it to work through the preval sprayer but who knows how that would effect the integrity of the paint itself.

[bonners]

Don't remember it saying you needed too but then I never went that path so didn't research it. The how to video just shows them using one. The result would be better again than what I ended up with though.

[Bradbd]

Don't remember it saying you needed too but then I never went that path so didn't research it. The how to video just shows them using one. The result would be better again than what I ended up with though.

Yeah I tried it but it didn't work straight out of the tin so I had to brush it on instead.

[bundabergsangel]

black...

(thats a weird angle, makes ur car look like a short wheel base model haha :P)

I have a ute in that same colour, would dark green calipers look crap?

[Bradbd]

I have a ute in that same colour, would dark green calipers look crap?

Yellow all the way

[bonners]

thanks for the link ... and good to know its easy to get the paint ... but would i just get it from any car shop or something ...

Also i have attached a photo of my car ... opinions on what colour?

Poison ivy.. Yep, yellow would look great or the standard holden red (rolleyes). A specific colour like the poison ivy is really hard to match a colour to IMO

[TinSnips]

+1 contrasting calliper colours look good - unless the car is black, I wouldn't be matching the body colour to the brake colour. Yellow would look hot - but a really rich yellow - I'm thinking mustang yellow or lambo diablo yellow - just the brightest, fullest yellow you can find - nothing half arsed. Black would work also. Red and green would just look like a christmas theme.

[bonners]

Sorry tin, dont agree with black. Kind of gets lost behind the wheel. Def agree with the yellow and mustard.

So Santa is driving a VE ....lol

[bundabergsangel]

Red and green would just look like a christmas theme.

Someone should tell that to bloody Holden. Try doing interior work to match the car (when it's Poison Ivy) with all the lights being red. Looks stupid as.

[TinSnips]

Someone should tell that to bloody Holden. Try doing interior work to match the car (when it's Poison Ivy) with all the lights being red. Looks stupid as.

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