painting the calipers
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painting the calipers im waiting to pick my rotors up form BADZ....and i think theyre gonna go nice with my freshly powdercoated wheels when i get those back....but they will definitely go with black calipers!!!! so what paint do you guys use? i heard it was high temp paint from auto zone or sumthin....also where can i get those camaro decals for the caliper
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I used 1200 degree engine paint on mine and they still look they did the day I painted them almost a year ago. I'm not sure on the stickers, maybe www.3rdgendecals.com
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Check out SS LS1, the guy with the 98 black SS, I think he used duplicolor and his calipers are bad as hell. Are your wheels going to be black with a silver lip? Black calipers?
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/314999
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/314999
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most use the vinyl decal, I believe I got mine from a guy on ebay.. Ive had them on for over a year and they still look and stick great.. I painted my calipers alomst the same blue as above just a little darker..
I did mine with caliper paint from Wal-Mart. Works great. It all depends on how much prep work you do. I removed my calipers, washed them, then sprayed them with brake cleaner. Then I let it dry really good in the sun. I taped up all the areas where I didn't want paint and then put on the first coat of red. I did a total of three coats. After that I used a clear high temp engine enamel. After about thirty minutes, before it dried, I put on the CAMARO decal. The clear was still tacky so it helped stick better. After it completely dried, I finished it off with a little bit of my girls clear nail polish and sealed the decal to the caliper. I havent had any issues yet.
autozone now has some ceramic brush on high temp paint specifically for calipers, i saw it the other day when i went through there, they have black, blue, red and i think yellow. If i were goign to re do mine anytime soon i would go with those.
