yapakanichi

Well today the wife and I painted the calipers on the Rex. Love the color love how it came out. It's a Metallic Copper. I disassembled the calipers and painted everything individually. I didn't want to go with red cause I don't think that would have looked good at all. I went with this color to compliment the blue and not look too ricer and faddish. Just a good compliment.

In the pictures it's more orange, but in the light it's beautiful.

Loki

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Nice, good choice of colour.
Coincidence, I'm baking mine in the BBQ right now to cure the paint.

yapakanichi

What color did you choose?

BigCajun

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Fwiw, I did mine when I bought all new rotors with flat black BBQ spray paint as primer, then gloss black caliper spray paint.
Didn't take the calipers apart.
I measured the hubs & cut circles out of the cardboard the rotors came in and laid them over the rotors.
Hung the calipers on the springs with hooks & covered the spindles with the plastic the rotors were wrapped in.

Loki

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Here, just finished up.




These were spares that were sitting around, but I think I'll swap them over soon. We'll see how the paint and decals hold up to track duty. After 5 years the ones currently on the car have gone from the previous owner's single coat of red to shades of brown and black.

Here's the before. They were stripped, hot tanked, blasted and rebuilt.



I didn't realize that the caliper is not symmetrical until I started applying the decals. So you either center on the caliper's dimensions or on the piston "window". We'll see how it is once on the car.

Steve Dallas

From my experience, the color on painted calipers will last about 5 minutes under serious track duty.

lowen12

Looks good. What paint did you use? I'm thinking of painting my calipers also but can't decide yet what route to take.

yapakanichi

I bought from a company here in Germany called "Foliatec"

Minor threat

I just did mine the other day - I think it turned our well