Painting Your Brake Calipers

[gerz]

anyone in melbourne would do it for cash?i wouldnt mind your left over paint if it's enough for 4 calipers, pls pm me if anyone wanna help. thanks

[08r3308]

i would do it but im in sydney

i need to refresh mine

[DriftinThruLife]

Just wondering...for those of you who sprayed the calipers and then sanded the paint off the logo....

Didn't you get that part rusting up?

I think I'll end up just painting the whole thing.

[gotRICE?]

It shouldnt do, the brakes are alloy.

[TALBO]

Mine haven't rusted. Looks much nicer with it sanded imo rather than all one colour.

[Aleckr33]

good stuff... thanks.

[Mr GTS4]

after painting mine i just used a file to gently take off the paint on the letters. did the same on my r32 years ago and didn't rust up

[BstewyR33]

thought i'd add my shots i just did today. anodized blue going to make the nissan white once the blue has cured long enough

Edited October 9, 2009 by BstewyR33

[jase-r34]

What kind of paint is that Ben, it looks great!

[BstewyR33]

Hey, i got the VHT stuff, only cuz i spent about a week trying to track down a supplier of duplicolour metalcast (only to walk into a local supercheap to find out they had it after i already brought the vht stuff)

http://www.vhtpaint.com/anodized.html

the blue anodized + the silver under coat

got mine from autobarn caboolture

[jase-r34]

Sweet, now I just need to choose a colour! haha

[Dorifta]

A good way to keep the logo clean is to gently go over the letters with solvent on a rag in between coats before it sets, being careful obviously, comes up a treat,

[TwoCents]

Hey, got my R33 GTS afew days ago, doing all little mods to it to make it look good in my eyes. Really wanting to do this DIY but the calipers are much different, guessing because its a GTS

Spraying these wouldn't look so good imo. Would it be practical to upgrade the calipers both for performance upgrade and for looks? + anyone know what rims they are?

[TwoCents]

Hey, got my R33 GTS afew days ago, doing all little mods to it to make it look good in my eyes. Really wanting to do this DIY but the calipers are much different, guessing because its a GTS

Spraying these wouldn't look so good imo. Would it be practical to upgrade the calipers both for performance upgrade and for looks? + anyone know what rims they are?

[BstewyR33]

i wouldn't upgrade new brakes just for the sake of it looking "good"., there'd be nothing wrong with painting your callipers now.

[SilverECR33]

Silly me, After making my initial post Donkeys ago, I forgot to show off the finished Project, Btw thanks again paul for a great Tutorial. worked a treat, also gave me a chance to fix up some other things i found wrong. I went with the Metal Cast Blue cause it is just awsome. Also I used Vaseline on the Nissan logo, before the paint, then just scraped the paint off with a Razor blade after painting.

[Marko R1]

good thread!

i'll be doing mine in 'dupicolor metalcast red' as most agree that this is the best paint for the job.

i will also give it a base coat silver to help bring out the red BUT im not sure if i get the top clear coat...is this needed?

lastly, will this paint ever crack/peel if i track the car?

[BstewyR33]

i didnt bother with the top coat, the finish of the anodized paint was enough for me

as for the cracking/peeling on the track - not sure on that, they say its rated up at 500 F (approx 260 C) intermittently, so how hot do your brakes get???

[BstewyR33]

i didnt bother with the top coat, the finish of the anodized paint was enough for me

as for the cracking/peeling on the track - not sure on that, they say its rated up at 500 F (approx 260 C) intermittently, so how hot do your brakes get???

[Son Gokou]

I wanted to paint my brake calipers in silver!

Do i need to buy a can of Anodized Base Silver and a can of VHT silver too?