i want to paint my calipers, but i dont know if i have to primer them or just paint it staraight on? i take it people have done it, can anyone help? and does it look any good?

I just cleaned mine and painted them with a couple of coats of engine dress up paint, not had any problems with em at all.

I know Haulfrauds do proper heat resistant caliper paint.

And bloody good it is too! :D

3rd that lol

I used Halfrauds red caliper paint then I used Radiator white paint for the Nissan writing on the caliper....looks good.

 

Cheers John Crisp

I used proper caliper paint and they look crap. However I don't think it was the paint as such but the crapy prep that I did. I cleaned them with degreasant and rubbed them down a little to provide a key but the paint needs to baked on to go hard so buy the time I fitted the calipers they scratched and marked.

 

Will be redoing them again at some time.

 

Darrell

i panal wiped mine and used hammerite everyone said it would flake off with the heat but its been on 8 months and it still looks new

i used foliatec caliper paint found it to be much better than halfrauds stuff mine in red & nissan in white.

I used Hammerite on one car and bought a tin of Halfords Caliper Paint the next time.

It's just Hammerite with a different label!!

Don't be fooled.

 

Can't comment on the two-part paints like Foliatec but for the price they'd better be fookin perfect LOL.

i was going to say surely caliper paint is just ultra high heat resistant paint put into small pots and sold at large prices?

i panal wiped mine and used hammerite everyone said it would flake off with the heat but its been on 8 months and it still looks new

 

Same as me..i have painted mine yellow and that was 4 yrs ago still like new :D

Only paint the calipers, don't paint the disks as well, as one guy in the states did :rofl:

Are the calipers easy to get off? Might give this a whirl the coming weekend if they are

I used some proper caliper paint, had to mix it and it was rubbish. It was like there wasnt enough pigment in there and you could see through it.

 

So next time I used Hammerite and it was fine!

Only paint the calipers, don't paint the disks as well, as one guy in the states did :rofl:

 

No way? Surely this has to be an urban legend not true? :p

 

Or is it really true?

That was real funny I think the pictures may still be on this site somewhere I'll have a look about.

 

 

The paint dries real quick so don't leave the tin open for too long or it will turn to goo.

 

I'll see if I have a picture of mine somewhere, I painted my R34 Brembo's blue and then put a Brembo sticker on them, personally I think they look quite nice.

well, i brought some halfrauds paint and did the rear ones today! they look quite good,i think!

Get some pics up fella :)

foilatec red clean callipers in situ, paint callipers with 2-3 coats wait 1/2 an hour between coats, looks shite first 2 coats then it looks proper after 3rd coat dries! tok about 2hours per wheel, depends how good you want it to look

 

sand down logo with some fine w&d to bring logo up silver

 

Are the calipers easy to get off? Might give this a whirl the coming weekend if they are

do them in situ, remove pads and mask off pistons

 

bit drastic removing them to paint them

Used Hammerite.......................No problems, carefully painted them in situ