Brake Caliper Painting

If anybody is interested, here are a couple of photos from my recent brake caliper painting efforts ...

The obligatory 'Before' shot (after some initial cleaning)


After applying the base coat


After applying the colour coat and detailing the badging


With the wheel refitted



Now I just need to get a nice set of wheels fitted, which should improve things a little

 

nice work man...ive been thinking about doing my own. what spray u use???

 

Looks great!

^^ Some say to use caliper paint, but I did mine in regular spray paint and it looks the same as the day I did it.

 

Doing mine atm, use calliper paint, it's rated to a higher temp.

 

I used Dupli-Color Metalcast spray cans that I picked up from SuperCheap. It is a two-part paint job - a chrome undercoat, which provides the metallic look, followed by a more transparent colour coat (you definitely need the undercoat with this stuff ... I found that out the hard way). It's not specifically labelled as 'caliper paint', however it is heat resistant. For the badging, I just used a small pot of regular metallic silver paint - I figured the heat resistant paint underneath would provide some degree of insulation so as not to affect it too much.

 

Looks really good mate. You should really use caliper specific paint (such as VHT caliper paint) to stop the excessive heat causing the paint to flake off prematurely

 

Nice work. look great.

 

They look great - pleased to see someone else who likes blue calipers.

Here's mine from a few years ago, just a few layers of VHT caliper paint, silver paint on the NISSAN. Letters look a bit rough in the pics, but cleaned up later.