Painted calipers
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Painted calipers
I painted my calipers black while doing my brake rebuild. Take a look, I didn't think it was possible to have cast iron look so shiny... :cool:
Oh, and you might want to stay away from the clear coat paint. I tried it to see how it would look and I was not happy:
As you can see, it attacked the paint that I sprayed it on top of. It's the same type of paint and same brand, so I don't know what I did wrong...
Oh, and you might want to stay away from the clear coat paint. I tried it to see how it would look and I was not happy:
As you can see, it attacked the paint that I sprayed it on top of. It's the same type of paint and same brand, so I don't know what I did wrong...
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Re: Painted calipers (84ZZ4)
:cool: Looks good ! :cool:
As far as paint "attacks" - did you allow plenty of drying time between coats ?
....the 'base' paint must cure completely before applying the clear.
Putting them in an oven or under a heat lamp will accelerate the 'curing' time. :D
As far as paint "attacks" - did you allow plenty of drying time between coats ?
....the 'base' paint must cure completely before applying the clear.
Putting them in an oven or under a heat lamp will accelerate the 'curing' time. :D
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Re: Painted calipers (joshc)
I painted mine with Red Devil Polyurethane---non hi temp, over a year ago and they still look great.
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Yes, there was 4-5 days of drying PLUS some oven time (bout 30 minutes) at 200-250 * F and it attacked the paint anyway. It hit some worse than others, as near as I can tell the more coats of black I put on, the worse the clear coat attacked it. What's funny is I steel wooled the calipers down with 0000 steel wool and resprayed the black on top, and it didn't attack any remaining clear coat. Also, I only allowed 3 days drying time + oven heat on the calipers once between coats of black and it didn't attack it either. It has to be something in the damn clear coat...
As far as what kind of paint, it's Duplicolor 500* engine paint. It should hold up fine for the type of driving we do with the car. I wouldn't recommend it if you autocross, road race, or do anything else that expose the calipers to extremely high temperatures for long periods of time. From my oven experiment, 1 hour at 300*F is enough to soften the paint a little. It seems to handle temperature "spikes" much better, so for a street driven car it should be fine.
I'd have used higher temp paint, but couldn't find the gloss black in the higher temperatures.
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As far as what kind of paint, it's Duplicolor 500* engine paint. It should hold up fine for the type of driving we do with the car. I wouldn't recommend it if you autocross, road race, or do anything else that expose the calipers to extremely high temperatures for long periods of time. From my oven experiment, 1 hour at 300*F is enough to soften the paint a little. It seems to handle temperature "spikes" much better, so for a street driven car it should be fine.
I'd have used higher temp paint, but couldn't find the gloss black in the higher temperatures.
[Modified by 84ZZ4, 12:22 PM 5/1/2002]
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Re: Painted calipers (TJKirby82CE)
cool.. i'm thinking about painting mine red since i have to rebuild all four anyways (all of them are leaking) ...well so says the 40 point inspection ;)
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