Painting your rotors?
06-09-2005 | 03:38 PM
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Painting your rotors?
James... I don't think they're THAT stupid.
06-09-2005 | 05:36 PM
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You never know. Remember that post here about 2 years ago showing a link to some other car forum where the kid actually took a paint brush and painted EVERYTHING - rotors, hubs, calipers - everything his brush could reach and touch. And he painted it all white.
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06-09-2005 | 05:53 PM
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Exactly and I know there is one guy on that forum that posted he only bought the car because he thought it looked good, got the auto didn't even know it had a rotary engine and doesn't even know what that is.
06-09-2005 | 07:23 PM
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Originally Posted by xviper,Jun 9 2005, 08:36 PM
You never know. Remember that post here about 2 years ago showing a link to some other car forum where the kid actually took a paint brush and painted EVERYTHING - rotors, hubs, calipers - everything his brush could reach and touch. And he painted it all white.
some dipshit was obssessed w/ armor-all on his IS300 and decided to armor-all his whole tire (including the tread) - somebody didn't read the bottle -- and then took his car out for a spin and was surprised that he had no grip and crashed the damn car.
another story was someone jokingly suggesting using brake fluid to clean off gunk on the paint job and some dipshit followed suit.
06-10-2005 | 04:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Tugz_S2K,Jun 9 2005, 07:17 PM
Why not just get powersluts like I did. 
I know all about painting ROTORS.
Internal vanes and outer edge:
I have tried twice with very disapointing results. I cleaned the crap out of them first to try and get any manufacturing residue off and then painted them with 1,400 degree paint I use on the CRX-SiR header, the only paint I found that would hold up to the header abuse. Problem is in only half a season the rust was well underway inside the vanes, although they looked beautiful for about a month!
Outer center hub:
I paint this area all the time and will continue to do so. I use a good quality black heat paint and apply it with a brush. The OEM paint begins to break down with track heat and I just hate the rust, so when I do brake work I usually just wipe it down with a wire brush and apply a new coat.
Shown here, areas painted and not painted.
