dkdude

wondering if anyone has any info on painting the calipers
And if you can buy new ones already done/send mine off
thanks in advance for any help.

Dustin.

hammerdown2000

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go to wal-mart, oreilly, or any other auto parts store and they will have a caliper painting kit, usually in any popular color you want. good luck bro.

food nd cars

dude just clean em off with rubbing alcohol, then cover everything with news paper, except the calipers and spray away. Any high heat spray paint will work, i usually put about 3 coats.

01Z0H6

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Buy a used set, have them powdercoated, and sell your stockers. You get what you pay for.. If you want the "rattle can" look, then by all means it's "Your" car! do what you like.

If you want to do it right, forever... Have em powdercoated. Plenty of people on this sight provide this service. Do a "search"..

Good luck.

WS SIKZ

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dupli color caliper ceramic coating kit 20 bucks and no one can tell the difference between this and powdercaoated. shines like crazy too bright red

01pewterbird

If you do it right, that "Rattle can" look can look nearly as good as your powder coat. Of course only on smaller items like calipers, but still mine aren't far from yours.

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Of course you need to take your time sanding getting them real smooth, then perfectly clean by rubbing with alcohol or thinner. Then take your time with light, thin, even coats, put on a decal, hit it with some clear. I used hightemp engine paint.

FLA02TA

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I like the brush on kit the best. If I had the time and patience, I'd polish them first though. It looks bad up close with the raw iron texture look.

Make sure you do several coats. It'll chip in some spots if you don't.

cabech984

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I used The Duplicolor Caliper Spray paint. I painted mine during an axle swap. Looked great imo even without sanding or whatever else, I just used brakeclean to get them cleaned up. When I grinded my calipers for 15" Pro Stars, I just painted everything, rotor and all. Once the paint came off the rotors(3-5 brake cycles) I thought it looked badass!! Good luck, Id stick to the rattle cans unless you got a show car!

foreverzero

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Here's a pic of mine, i used the spray paint at autozone, the paint on the caliper's is almost 2 years old, if i cleaned them before i took the pic, im sure it would look even better. just dont look at the ugly weight on the rim

clean99

sorry cars dirty, but these were painted with a brush without even taking the calipers off the car and then just got the decals off ebay

1998LS1SS

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Brush on duplicolor caliper paint...take your time....mine still look as good as they did 2 years ago.

NHRAMAN

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I have about 6 coats of Duplicolor on mine..I used a steel brush on mine first...2 1/2 years now...they look as good as yours I bet. [01 pewterbird]

Badguy7

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I bought the kit from O'Rielys for 20 buck's. Im satisfied with how mine came out, even with just 1 coat. Paint has chipped here & there, but im gonna add a few more coat's tomorrow.

sdm1234

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don't simply put alcohol on as a prep before you paint. that won't prep anything haha. use a wire brush and brake cleaner and wipe everything down first, then cover the areas around with garbage bags/newspaper/old rags or whatever. you don't have to disconnect the brake line or anything like that, but it does make it much easier to unbolt the caliper and bracket. take your time and do even coats, and get the proper paint. good luck