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lol yeah they were removed from the car when i wire brushed and sanded them but mounted them back up because it was the best place to spray all showing areas withought a vice marking certain areas.

good fun and certainly pays off just cant wait till tomorrow when its all dry to stick the new pads and slotted/drilled rotor in! will look a million bucks compared to those old rusy ones

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lol yeah they were removed from the car when i wire brushed and sanded them but mounted them back up because it was the best place to spray all showing areas withought a vice marking certain areas.

good fun and certainly pays off just cant wait till tomorrow when its all dry to stick the new pads and slotted/drilled rotor in! will look a million bucks compared to those old rusy ones

hang with wire through a bolt hole :)

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I don't know about you guys, but with all my cars, i have only used those $3.00 a spray can and cheap clear coat. And i can assure, they can last for heaps long.

My previous car i owned for about 3 years, did the calipers the first day i owned it, and still looked new when i sold it.

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Trying to decide whether to paint or powdercoat my calipers now...

I was going to take them off and paint them black when replacing my rotors/lines/fluid/pads....but now thinking about powdercoating...if I went that route I'd probably rebuild them at the same time....is it possible for a powdercoater to mask off the NISSAN lettering and powdercoat that a different color, or is that asking too much?

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Trying to decide whether to paint or powdercoat my calipers now...

I was going to take them off and paint them black when replacing my rotors/lines/fluid/pads....but now thinking about powdercoating...if I went that route I'd probably rebuild them at the same time....is it possible for a powdercoater to mask off the NISSAN lettering and powdercoat that a different color, or is that asking too much?

definately possible mate, just whether or not your coater will be willing to do it

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I bought a second set of calipers and had them rebuilt, car wasn't off the road that way. Last weekend I sanded back the NISSAN lettering to remove the texture with emery/ fine sand paper to make them smooth. I then cleaned them with thinners, being careful with the seals. I taped up the internals (slow painful job that - longest part of process) and hung them up using a coat hanger around the two bolts/pins for the pads. I painted them in gloss black VHT and then used more emery/fine sand paper to carefully expose the NISSAN lettering, nice and shiny. I then went straight over them in VHT clear coat a few times. If I get round to it I'll post up a photo or two. Hopefully that all sticks well and lasts.

When I get around to swapping the calipers over I will clean the rotor centers and give them a quick paint too. Good thing is I don't have to do fronts and rears in the same day if I don't get around to it.

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^^Iam planning to give my calipers a fresh look too. A nice brembo red colour and sand back to see the NISSAN Logo.

By looking at what jenkies did in the photo he posted, looks like he has masked up the areas and just sprayed the caliper without taking it off.

I assume thats fine but you must clean the surface of the caliper right?

I was thinking cleaning the caliper with metholated spirits (right cleaning solution?), give it a good scrub and wipe down then mask it up and spray.

How hot does the calipers heat up to?

VHT should be ok right?

You can paint exhaust mainfolds with VHT so I assume painting a caliper should be fine..?

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VHT works fine, mines been VHT gold for 3 or 4 years now. they just dont pop enough for me colour wise.

i used thinners and a wire brush on mine to clean, same deal with not removing them.

waiting for a new candy gold to come in my next batch of powder then i'll get my spares coated.

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VHT works fine, mines been VHT gold for 3 or 4 years now. they just dont pop enough for me colour wise.

i used thinners and a wire brush on mine to clean, same deal with not removing them.

waiting for a new candy gold to come in my next batch of powder then i'll get my spares coated.

Cool thanks Craved!

Would you have to do a recoat after sometime?

Cause the calipers can get abit of exposier from the sun, wind and rain...

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Few pics of how they came up.. nothing flash but they look better than they did. Maybe a few more coats of clear could possibly help? Even a coat or two of wax to protect them even more.

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This is just how I hung them up. Was able to hold coat hanger while painting them and hung them up in between coats. Left arm and shoulder got a little sore after a while holding them up. If you have a place to hange them up and be ablt to paint them in that locatino then that would be best. I was able to tilt the caliper by touching the taped up bleed nipple on the rear.

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Craved Grand Master

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^ WOW those turned out really good.

i just used VHT paint. Painted mine like 2 years ago and they havnt flaked off etc.

How much did it cost to powdercoat?

yeah VHT does work great, but i still want more gloss than the VHT clear can provide.

those were are fairly big calipers off a 9" rear ended Torana. $40 each might sound expensive, but there is alot more work on them than they look.

dezz Grand Master

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Thinking I'll get mine powdercoated now rather than paint them...I was going to paint them as I was planning on doing my rotors/lines/pads with a mate, but being that it needs to be done within the day, the painting would be rushed. So I'll leave it at the workshop the next time its in and get some bits and pieces powdercoated. Hopefully the powdercoater they send it to knows what he's doing with calipers and doesn't ruin them for me :sick:

Just a side question for you chris, is it possible to powdercoat just the hat of a brake rotor, or is there no way to mask the rotor face to withstand the powdercoating process?

Craved Grand Master

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Thinking I'll get mine powdercoated now rather than paint them...I was going to paint them as I was planning on doing my rotors/lines/pads with a mate, but being that it needs to be done within the day, the painting would be rushed. So I'll leave it at the workshop the next time its in and get some bits and pieces powdercoated. Hopefully the powdercoater they send it to knows what he's doing with calipers and doesn't ruin them for me :sick:

Just a side question for you chris, is it possible to powdercoat just the hat of a brake rotor, or is there no way to mask the rotor face to withstand the powdercoating process?

sure can do the rotors, did them for this brake setup too. MISSION for taping. took over 30 minutes each to mask up and coat. rears are worse than fronts due to the handbrake surface inside the hat of the rear.

as long as your coater takes plenty of time to do it neatly you wont have an issue - biggest thing is that you have to mask them - then blast them, then clean them, then remask, then coat.

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these were solid rears, but you can still to the outer rim of the rotor like i did for this car on the vented rotors.

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