Decided to paint my calipers and clean some of the suspension components ready for the show season. I have finished the drivers side just the other side to do.

Front



Rear



The whole job takes a while to complete but mean as i have two weeks off work why not.

 

Looks good. Im about to do this myself. Got any pictures of the entire car?

 

I like the grey on the center of the hub... cleans it up without making it stand out too much

 

+1 !

 

Here is a couple more pics with the wheels on from the side and RX-8 decal added to the rear caliper.



Front and Rear Wheel Shots.



More pics of my 8 can be found on the below link (Enjoy).

https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-multimedia-photo-gallery-6/fresh-new-pics-my-sunlight-silver-rx8-167933/

 

Mind giving a general outline of what you had to do to paint the wheels? What prep work do you have to do besides ... well ... taking them off the car?

 

^Umm he didn't paint his wheels...

 

There are some threads on painting wheels if you search though

 

Car looks hot.

 

Very nice man! I dont even want to know how much those wheels cost you

What paint did you use for the brakes?

 

nice, im about to re-do mine next week.

 

I'm about to paint my calipers blue also, gonna use dupli-color blue caliper paint, is that what you used? Looks good!

 

I am going to use the same stuff. Hopefully it matches my valve caps well enough. Do you think that this stuff could be used to paint metal in the engine?

 

Not sure, it says on the can that it's rated to 500 degrees (intermittant). There was also some high temp blue engine paint at Autozone, not sure what the temp rating on that was. I'm not sure how hot you need, depends on what you're painting I guess.

 

Well there is 500 and 1200 degrees.

I'm not sure either. But I guess it's worth a try? I mean whats the worst that could happen. If is doesn't work I could just buy the 1200 and paint over it.

 

looks like he got the same taillight problem as me

 

Im doing that in the morning

 

i did mine on saturday
https://www.rx8club.com/rx-8-multimedia-photo-gallery-6/so-i-did-some-new-stuff-car-169033/

 

I wonder what the mazdaspeed brake pads would look on those.. since the MS pads are blue on the back.

 

looking good

 

Did you take the calipers apart completely, or just mask off areas? I want mine to look neat and professional like that

 

I'm also wondering, how long did the caliper paint take to dry enough to put everything back together? Just trying to figure out how much time I'll need to do it right. I'm putting new pads, rotors and brake lines on too.

 

i just taped mine off and it took 15mins between coats and two coats for me was more than enough and i put the tires back on in like 30mins

 

Looks real clean. I hope to do the same this weekend. Waiting for my drilled rotors in the mail!

 

You did a really good job. i definitly plan on doing the same soon at the next TNC bbq meet before DGGR...