Calliper Cleaning And Painting

[Menace]

I did search for this but I did not find what I was looking for. Im looking to do my calipers in blue. I just got new rims tires brake pads and rotors. Ill receive all of it on friday :yahoo: . I want to know if it comes out better spray painted with heat resistant paint or paint on calliper paint thats like hella alot of money.

[jabartram]

i painted mine with VHT blue came out great, they have been painted for well over a year and still look great, i'll post pics if i can find them.


Link to the thread. (http://invision.aleromod.com/index.php?showtopic=6981&hl=)

[eag182]

hope your new pads are the minimal dust type, or else youll be cleaning them quite often

[alerlow]

that is exactly wat i did and it came out great but you can get that blue paint and it is called vht brake caliper paint and is specialy made for wat you are doing and you can pick it up at advance auto parts or auto zone

[turtles_ride]

i'm in the snowbelt, so i take my rims off in the winter and clean my brakes then, then i clean and touch up everything that needs it when i put my rims back on in the spring. I didn't buy the brake paint, i just use the spray on high temp engine paint from Walmart (its like $5 a can, nice colour blue too). I spray the best i can, and spray some in a little jar to handpaint the touch up areas. I hope you paint the rotors too, they rust really quickly and look like kief otherwise.

[FantomForceCustoms02]

Yea high heat paint works really well. I'm not sure if they have a high heat blue, but do a base in high heat silver then blue. Or get them powder coated, thats what I did.

[Menace]

My new rotors have a coat of zinc on them and they are cross drilled/ slotted what should I put on them to prevent them from rusting.

[Alero2k4]

Originally posted by Menace@Feb 14 2006, 12:22 PM
My new rotors have a coat of zinc on them and they are cross drilled/ slotted what should I put on them to prevent them from rusting.
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I was going to go with those cross drilled/slotted r1concepts rotors, but I don't think my car will hold out that long...on my right front the inside pad is down to the metal and the outside has 40 percent pad left...wtf??? I went to the dealer and told them to fix it and they wanted to charge me a bunch, so I am going with the top of the line Napa ceramix and the vibration damping iron whatever, and getting those installed Thursday. Congrats and post up some pix when you get everything together.

[AlbinoMonkeyRat]

aftermarket rotors don't mix well with OEM/replacement pads. good choice with the ceramic pads. :thumb:

[cherrington17]

i think advanced auto has blue brake caliper paint.

i used the red they have. its a little too bright for me, so i have to redo it. but it holds up really well.

also, get some clearcoat. give it a few good coats of that and they stay nice and shiny.

[Menace]

Anyone have any good pics of blue calipers? All ive seen are dull blue callipers.

[jabartram]

did you check the link i put up there? they are shiny blue, VHT blue from autozone.

[Menace]

The picture doesnt look that shiny unless my monitor is eff'd lemme look again. Yet again they prob look better in person.

[Menace]

Your right they are shiney. Is it better to paint that part of your rotor? How does the blue look irl ?

[turtles_ride]

here's the brakes painted with the "ford blue" high heat engine spray paint i bought at walmart, i'll see if i can find some closer up pics later.

[turtles_ride]

heres another, this second one was taken at oldsmans meet last summer. The brakes were painted in may (i got the rims back on late last year, i was busy). they hold up pretty well. i went silver the year before and i didn't like them as much. I was thinking of trying a chrome engine paint this year, if its available, or do you think i should keep the blue? hope the pics help.

[Alero2k4]

Sooo...has any one tried to polish their calipers??? I noticed when I did my brakes this morning that the calipers are all aluminum...

Edit: I would like to polish the aluminum part, and then that part that actually holds the pads, I would paint with red engine enamel...I really just want to know if it would be able to be done and look good, I don't know if the alloys in the aluminum change it as far as that kind of stuff is concerned???

[14alero]

Dang turtles ride those Calipers are bright I painted mine with the Caliper kit cant remember who makes it comes with paint,brush and cleaner well worth the money and they paint goes on thick

[SweetNLow]

off topic but get rid of that chrome wheel well opening trim. thats the most hideious thing u can add to a car.

[eag182]

Originally posted by 2Sweet@Feb 16 2006, 08:19 PM
off topic but get rid of that chrome wheel well opening trim. thats the most hideious thing u can add to a car.
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