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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 02:45 PM
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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.













And now the calipers/wheel hub:


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


First Coat


Second Coat


Calipers!!


Assembled Rear


Assembled Front


Rear


Front

Next up, paint the engine cover and sway bar...
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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 02:47 PM
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looks good
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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 03:09 PM
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nice work
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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 03:14 PM
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Looks good. I honestly think you should got the duplicolor brush kits. No disassembly
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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 04:04 PM
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looks good, did you get the mod bug after the sushi meet
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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by R8xing
Looks good. I honestly think you should got the duplicolor brush kits. No disassembly
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?
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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by altspace
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.

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

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Looks good. I honestly think you should got the duplicolor brush kits. No disassembly
Yea I know, but I actually enjoyed taking the brakes apart. Thank god I bought a bar of Lava soap.
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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 04:57 PM
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nice work
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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 07:00 PM
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Hmmm.... Black rotors and Blue calipers Looks familar....

JK looks great...
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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by cornholio135
Hmmm.... Black rotors and Blue calipers Looks familar....

JK looks great...
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.
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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 07:57 PM
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looks good man, im painting both my calipers and hubs black next weekend. Going to try the duplicolor kit...
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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 08:03 PM
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looks good man, im painting both my calipers and hubs black next weekend hopefully with 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.
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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 08:31 PM
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why didnt you just pull the rotors off if you took the entire caliper apart anyway?
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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 08:34 PM
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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.
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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 09:01 PM
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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
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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 09:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Ross_Dawg
looks good man, im painting both my calipers and hubs black next weekend. Going to try the duplicolor kit...

definately get the Duplicor kit with the brush... no disassenbly and turns out real glossy...
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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 09:15 PM
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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
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.
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Old Apr 19, 2009 | 09:21 PM
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looks sweet man wanna do a red color on mine but really dont have time...
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