Painted Calipers & Tint
 

Well i just got my car off the jacks and tested the brakes. I painted the wheel hubs black and the calipers blue.

Before I started with the calipers, I got tinted, 20% all around, head lights, tail lights, and fogs. The head lights and fogs are Optic Blue.

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And now the calipers/wheel hub:

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Masked the area of the rotor that the brake bad touches.

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First Coat

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Second Coat

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Calipers!!

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Assembled Rear

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Assembled Front

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Rear

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Front

Next up, paint the engine cover and sway bar...

looks good

nice work

Looks good. I honestly think you should got the duplicolor brush kits. No disassembly

looks good, did you get the mod bug after the sushi meet :)

I used a can of High Temp red mixed with OEM VR and black for mine. Cost $5.00 Painted on by brush and the results are fantastic.

The blue looks great, almost a match to WB. Does it have metallic flake?

Thx man. It has ceramic in it. I was thinking about using Duplicolor MetalCast because that has a metal flake in it.

I got the mod bug a while ago, but i was bummed because i planned these mods for this weekend...but it was before the meet!! :banghead:

Yea I know, but I actually enjoyed taking the brakes apart. Thank god I bought a bar of Lava soap.

nice work

Hmmm.... Black rotors and Blue calipers:confused: Looks familar....

JK looks great...:lol:

Hahah! Well I was thinking blue for the rotors, but it would be too much. Plus i just hated the look of the rusty OE rotors.

looks good man, im painting both my calipers and hubs black next weekend. Going to try the duplicolor kit...

Thanks man, I went to Lowes and got a drop cloth for when i laid the caliper parts down for paint. I also got 4 plastic drop cloths. I used them for the inner wheel wells and the ground under the wheel wells.

Oh oh and 80 grit sand paper. I had some major rust buildup.

why didnt you just pull the rotors off if you took the entire caliper apart anyway?

I didn't know how to take the rear rotors off. That and with my luck i would have stripped the 2 screws on the rotor face in the front.

is that just regular tint on your head/tail lights because when i got my tint done i asked my guy if he could do the lights and he said he could but they would bubble and start wearing off in about a month i was really bummed because i wanna get mine done really bad

definately get the Duplicor kit with the brush... no disassenbly and turns out real glossy...

Regular tint on the tails.

Headlights and fogs are Optic Blue. All tints are from Llumar. They offer a 5 year warranty on their tint. I had mine professionally installed by Shades of Gray.

IMO they are the best if not one of the best tinters in south east PA.

Here is another Optic Blue.

looks sweet man wanna do a red color on mine but really dont have time...