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Brake Caliper Paint

Old Jul 17, 2009 | 08:29 AM
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Originally Posted by bassy
Some 14 months after I started this thread, I finally got around to painting my calipers...I should win the Procrastinator-of-the-Year award.

Here's the result:

looks good, but would look 2x better if you cleaned up the rust on those rear rotors
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Old Jul 17, 2009 | 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Tex8
looks good, but would look 2x better if you cleaned up the rust on those rear rotors
LOL...I knew someone was gonna say that, sooner or later! Well, this is kind of later.

Anyway, I think I'll just wait until I swap out the stock, rusty rotors with something lighter and nicer. I'm just too lazy to paint 'em. Heck, it already took me a long time just to paint the calipers.
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Old Jul 17, 2009 | 10:31 PM
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yeah and if you ever redo it or swap rotors you should paint the dust pans too
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Old Aug 26, 2009 | 11:48 AM
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Thumbs up

Aside from the rust on your rear rotors, that looks great! I think the colours go very well.
I'm painting my calipers this w/nd, red on my bb, with the rotor hubs painted black.
Will post the finished result
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Old Aug 26, 2009 | 01:20 PM
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I painted the hubs black too. Although it did help look a little better, there was still plenty of rust on the rotor face and tops. Water would hit those areas and then dry out over top of my painted hubs. Thereby showing a rust color on them anyway.

Worth my time? I guess. But if you're truly looking to get rid of the rust, stainless rotors are the only way.
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Old Aug 27, 2009 | 05:15 PM
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ok, this is mine front and back

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Old Aug 27, 2009 | 05:40 PM
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Smart man to go with black
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Old Mar 12, 2010 | 09:57 PM
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I went with red and think it turned out pretty good.
Check it out:
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Old Mar 12, 2010 | 11:02 PM
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Hey, here's a pic right after my brakes were done....
Yeah, the wheels are dirty...
But that's not the point.
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Old Mar 13, 2010 | 10:13 AM
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I'm surprised that there wasn't a choice for blue in the poll. Anyone have blue calipers, I'd love to see how that looks.
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Old May 25, 2011 | 10:04 AM
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Yeah +1 to that. I think a deep blue would look good.
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Old May 25, 2011 | 12:15 PM
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Originally Posted by KingBonacci
Yeah +1 to that. I think a deep blue would look good.
Haha, I totally forgot about this thread. Yeah, I went and did them in blue, I'll see if I can't dig up a picture.
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Old May 25, 2011 | 12:21 PM
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Not a great picture, but I love having mine blue. Red is so played out.

Or https://www.rx8club.com/album.php?al...ictureid=26205
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Old May 26, 2011 | 10:27 AM
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Looks good, I want to do a similar blue.
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