Painted my barrels, calipers & rotors
 

I did like a couple of others on the forum did with their wheels & painted my barrels, calipers & rotors last week.

I did not use the G2 system. I used what I found worked very well when I had my 82 coupe, POR15. It comes as a very complete kit & is easy to apply.
I bought a kit for red, a kit for black, & a 2nd 8 oz. can of black, which I just started dipping into when doing the 2nd coat.

I put 2 coats on everything & when it came to the caliper lettering, the chap stick "trick" did not work so I took a razor & ever so slightly slid the blade down the sides of the letters to cut the excess paint off & clean up the letters.

Here's the POR kit I used:
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/por15.jpg

Here's the rotors & calipers original:
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/c1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/c2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/c3.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/c4.jpg

Then painted:
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/c5.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/c6.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/c7.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/c8.jpg

The insides of the wheels:
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/pwheel5.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/pwheel6.jpg

The wheels on the car before:
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/pwheel1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/pwheel2.jpg

And after:
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/pwheel3.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/pwheel4.jpg

And a couple of shots on the car before & after:
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/side1.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/side2.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/side3.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~myws6/side4.jpg

Looks great :cool: I have this on my to do list, just need to find the time.

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How much was that kit and where can i find it?? :hide:

Very nicely done.....Congrats...!! :cheers:

very nice, time to lower that bad boy

Awesome, a huge improvement!!

:thumbs::thumbs:

That turned out great. I definitely need to do something with my wheels too. That gray is just bad.

Beautiful. :thumbs:

Fun fact: GM Cup wheels are painted inside in the barrels. First for a C6 wheel.

Very nice and looks professionally done. :thumbs:

I cant understand why people pay several hundred dollars to powder coat them when they look as good as yours for twenty bucks.

I just noticed it's Por15, thats high quality stuff, it get used on submarines tanks etc....

they also sell good paint to help you stop rust, the paint is made specifically for it and to strenghten it.

Always wanted to do that! :thumbs: Looks good! :cheers:

I started using POR15 back about 12+ years ago. You could only get through a local "distributor" which was a guy selling out of his garage!

Back then the ONLY problem with it, was it would fade in direct exposure to sunlight (UV). We only would use it to paint the chassis, where exposure to sunlight was minimal. If topcoated, no problem.

Have they cured that issue??

:thumbs:

that does look nice...

I thought lots of C6 wheels had painted barrels...chrome Gumbies, for example. :confused:

Did mine a couple of weeks ago, on my Blk GS. I went with PPG black base (2coats) and 3 coats of clear. Sprayed with low pressure, high velocity gun. Rattle can VHT high temp on the rotor hats, kept calipers grey. Love the look, but now just hose the brake dust off the barrels

:iagree:Nicely done:rock:

Great job!