Caliper Paint?????????
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Caliper Paint?????????
HAs anyone painted their brake calipers with high temp paint before? does it look good or last? and would you think yellow calipers on a torch red c5 would look good?
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1 3X Black Vert
1 Red Vert
Both with dulpicolor kit for 15 bucks. Each look as though they were fresh after miles of fun and years. READ AND FOLLOW DIRECTIONS, Better you prep the surface, better the result. I used several coats and had some left over. I bought my own artist brushes, but the ones that are in the kit are fine. IMHO the best mod for the buck and effort.
Even my Engineer bud was surprised how well they came out!
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I used the Duplicolr kit as well. Still looks great after 3 years. 
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Duplcolor RED is the way to go and use white touch up on the front corvette LETTERS
I have performed this on 2 vettes
1 3X Black Vert
1 Red Vert
Both with dulpicolor kit for 15 bucks. Each look as though they were fresh after miles of fun and years. READ AND FOLLOW DIRECTIONS, Better you prep the surface, better the result. I used several coats and had some left over. I bought my own artist brushes, but the ones that are in the kit are fine. IMHO the best mod for the buck and effort.
Even my Engineer bud was surprised how well they came out!
1 3X Black Vert
1 Red Vert
Both with dulpicolor kit for 15 bucks. Each look as though they were fresh after miles of fun and years. READ AND FOLLOW DIRECTIONS, Better you prep the surface, better the result. I used several coats and had some left over. I bought my own artist brushes, but the ones that are in the kit are fine. IMHO the best mod for the buck and effort.
Even my Engineer bud was surprised how well they came out!
Used Duplicolor brush on kit about 3 years ago and they still look GREAT.
Secret is CLEAN CALIPERS WELL BEFORE PAINTING. I was doing a brake job so after removing old pads I scrubbed the calipers with a bristle and wire brush using brake cleaner. The $15 Duplicolor kit contains one can of spray brake cleaner. I used about 3 cans altogether for all 4 calipers and got off as much crud as possible. Then painted with several coats of the paint. Instructions say you can repaint if less than a half hour or so. I did this SEVERAL TIMES as one coat wasn't sufficient and the dark color of the calipers bleed thru. After about 3 or 4 coats it looked fine. NOW WAIT 24 HOURS.. LET IT DRY GOOD. Then I insalled the pads and touched up ANY PLACES I scraped when reinstalling the calipers. Waited 2 days then got a small tube of plain white touch up paint at AutoZone or Advance Auto and carefully painted the CORVETTE logo on the front calipers.
BTW the brush with the Duplicolor kit is REALLY CRAP but I did use it and it just about made it for 4 calipers. I still have enough paint left over for at least 4 more calipers so if mine start to fade in a few years I can touch them up for free. HAVE FUN!!!
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I used Folia Tec caliper paint on my '00 - it's not cheap but in the 6+ years it was on the car (before I sold it), it still looked like the day I put it on.
As for the color - not wild about yellow on a TR car. IMO, black with red lettering, silver with red lettering or torch red with either black or unpainted letters would be the way to go.
As for the color - not wild about yellow on a TR car. IMO, black with red lettering, silver with red lettering or torch red with either black or unpainted letters would be the way to go.
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I used Duplicolor spray caliper paint in Red. Only advice I can add besides the cleaning well is to use a high temp black primer. Makes the paint go on better. Then I used some cheapo fine paint brushes from Walmart to hand paint the letters with the black spray primer sprayed into the cap for a cup. Over a year and looks good.
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I used VHT caliper paint on mine (in yellow) and it looks great after a year. I was even lazy and painted them on the car and plopped them back together with like 20 mins dry time.
I would point out that if you paint the caliper mounting bracket as well, it makes the calipers look much larger.
I don't have any great pics to showcase that, but here is the best I have.
I would point out that if you paint the caliper mounting bracket as well, it makes the calipers look much larger.
I don't have any great pics to showcase that, but here is the best I have.
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I did mine with Hi-Temp SPRAY paint, just cleaned everything really well, taped off everything that I didn't want painted, and mine have been good all year, it's not a DD so maybe you get what you pay for, but I'm happy with mine .....bob.
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I used satin black Rustoleum which was $4 from Walmart. I painted the calipers about 4 years ago and they're just looking as though they need a touch up now.
You won't lose anything using high temp paint but it's really not necessary.
You won't lose anything using high temp paint but it's really not necessary.
