Brake Calipers
02-09-2004, 04:35 PM
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Brake Calipers
Damn "wheel cleaner" peeled off the grey coating on my calipers! Half the coating fell off to reveal a yellow mess under the paint. I'll post some pics of the horror tonight. What's a good method for painting the calipers? On my old car (a Sentra BTW) we lined the wheel-well with newspaper and went at it. Covering all the important parts of course, we sprayed high temp paint on the calipers. Turned out ok, but my 8 deserves better treatment than that. Any good methods out there,
or color suggestions?
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02-10-2004, 08:14 AM
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I'll post the name of the cleaner I used sometime after lunch. I dont want this to happen to you guys.
BTW nice brakes jerrymac. Looks very clean. (wish mine were like that!)
BTW nice brakes jerrymac. Looks very clean. (wish mine were like that!)
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You need either G2 which alot of us have used, or there's quite a following for VHT...FoliaTec makes some also but I've had no experience with them...VHT and G2 would suit you just fine and they have the popular colors and tend to be easy on application. It didn't take me long with G2 to do mine, i think a total of 3 hours...i also cleaned my rims and waxed them between the 3 coatings...
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FoliaTec is what some of the Scooby guys suggest.....although i used some cheap caliper paint, with a high temp clear coat...came out very well, and stood up to everything for about 2years....
02-10-2004, 04:32 PM
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hmmm...graphite....that may be doable...i wanted to do my wheels again. so i may have to buy some of that stuff again...i havent decided on my calipers yet, flat black or red...maybe silver...just dont want the stock washed out look.
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