Painted calipers
Pro
Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 530
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From: Colorado Springs CO
Agree that power coat is the ideal, but if you don't want to spend the time disassembling your calipers to send them out for powder coating (and don't want to spend the money), you can mask and paint them yourself. Clean them with a common degreaser, wipe them down with alcohol, and then mask everything around them. Unless you are racing a lot, don't bother with so-called "caliper" paint: just use Rustoleum spray primer from Walmart to primer them, then paint them with a Rustoleum gloss red or whatever. Cheap, quick and they will look great and last. I did this to mine, and after 5 years they are still holding up. Don't bother masking the "Corvette" writing on them: paint over that, and then take a razor blade and scrape the paint off when the calipers are dry (the letters are normally bare metal from the factory).
HTH
HTH
Last edited by fenderowner; Dec 8, 2010 at 12:42 AM.
Pro
Joined: Aug 2010
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theres a vendor on here that sells them smoothed and powdercoated. i would just buy them from him, lay out the core $ then get it back when you send back your old ones.
thats what im going to do in the future. i think a bright caliper will look nice behind my white ccw's
thats what im going to do in the future. i think a bright caliper will look nice behind my white ccw's
Instructor
Joined: Jun 2007
Posts: 141
Likes: 1
From: Coral Gables. FLORIDA.
Agree that power coat is the ideal, but if you don't want to spend the time disassembling your calipers to send them out for powder coating (and don't want to spend the money), you can mask and paint them yourself. Clean them with a common degreaser, wipe them down with alcohol, and then mask everything around them. Unless you are racing a lot, don't bother with so-called "caliper" paint: just use Rustoleum spray primer from Walmart to primer them, then paint them with a Rustoleum gloss red or whatever. Cheap, quick and they will look great and last. I did this to mine, and after 5 years they are still holding up. Don't bother masking the "Corvette" writing on them: paint over that, and then take a razor blade and scrape the paint off when the calipers are dry (the letters are normally bare metal from the factory).
HTH
HTH
We have something in common, i do the same thing you do to paint stuff on my car, my local wallyworld has a large selection of rattle can paints for both metal or plastic.
Drifting
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 1,523
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From: OH
If your just ganna paint the caliper and have the corvette in steel color, then I say you get some G2 caliper paint and go at it. JMO....I think powerdercoating is for more exotic colors and combinations of colors with the corvette symbol painted.
I tried all the rattle cans and they all suck so get G2 it will hold up very well. Just apply it over the whole caliper wait about 30min then scrape the corvette letters with a razor blade. I did this with my 04 cobra and It turned out great...
I tried all the rattle cans and they all suck so get G2 it will hold up very well. Just apply it over the whole caliper wait about 30min then scrape the corvette letters with a razor blade. I did this with my 04 cobra and It turned out great...
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