Anyone painted their brake calipers?
 

I am thinking of painting my bake calipers - when my car arrives that is :cursing:

I have searched but cannot see any UK experience of trying this. The USA experience seems a bit mixed with words like "peeling" and "bubbling".

Anyone tried? Any pointers to good and less good paints?

Anyone gone for powdercoating?

Did you grind the calipers smooth first?



Its great being able to fill the weeks of waiting with projects like this!

I am going to do mine too and was going to post yesterday asking about it. I have searched the forum and yes mostly yank stuff about it here. I cant decide between red and silver to paint mine.

Did mine with normal Hammerite. No problems with peeling or bubbling, and I've done 2 track days since painting them - though not sure if they'd stand up to a day with Don Palmer! You can get heat proof/resistant Hammerite, but it only comes in black.

Didn't grind/rub down the calipers - just painted them. I did take some photo's when I first did them, but can't find them. I've put my car to bed now, but will try and get a couple of photo's during the week if you want.

What about yellow? I think hammerite is available in yellow. anybody done this? or have I been sniffing to much zymol:eek1:

Good to see some one else is keeping themselves busy with S related Bull$**t. :D

Ordered myself a carbon fibre tax disc holder yesterday :LOL:

But that darn garage thing is worrying me now :confused:

Any news about delivery?

Have you asked your/any dealers?

Mine said that they had painted calipers for several customers, although I don't know what paint they used. Sounded like it was no big deal for the dealer to do.

Hi

I painted mine with brake caliper lacquer


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Kev

Halfords sell caliper paint for a

[QUOTE]Originally posted by trypod
[B]Hi

I painted mine with brake caliper lacquer

I've thought about doing this but I think they are particularly ugly calipers.

Brembo's etc look fantastic but I'm not sure I want to draw attention to mine !

Pity..:(

I did my old S with Halfords Black heat resistant paint, I used the exhaust one cos they didnt have the brake one in black, I just used a wire brush and painted a very thin coat on and they looked great, I wouldnt go for any other colour because they are such naff looking calipers. Im going to do the new one the same when I get time.

Brakes? Don Palmer? Nah, you don't use brakes on a Don Palmer day. Who needs brakes when you can slow down by going sideways :LOL:

Demon Tweeks do Caliper paint and the cleaner product all in one pack. I ordered some parts from their motorsport catalogue and they sent me the 'Road Tuning' catalogue along with my order - there are some truly hideous Max Power type products in there....I felt like an old duffer sitting shaking my head at the revolting Saxo body kits, the carbon fibre effect dashboard plastic, the neon washer nozzles etc.

When I were a lad, a Mark II Escort, a Manta or a Capri was all you needed, along with the regulation bonnet pins and row of Cibe spotlights of course.......

That proves Mr CC has Jedi Powers. He can smell Zaino tyre treatment from a digital photo that has been internetted across the world and back :bow:

Amazing!

How lucky we all are to have CC feling our force for us :p

Lets hear it for Mr CC once again :clappingsmilieifonlyIcouldfindone:

here you go Gordie http://www.emotipad.com/emoticons/Clap%20Hands.gif

Who was that for Jenny?

It was for Gordie ofc :p

Check out MACA's recent thread on the bits he's trying to sell - he's got his calipers painted with stuff from Demon Tweeks. He seems happy enough with it.

Seems "Gordie" is not around.

Thanks for the tips and the picture. In summary I have:

The calipers are not pretty - so black is a good colour
Halfords do suitable paint
Demon Tweaks do suitable paint
Powdercoating is not a trivial or cheap task
People generally have had good experience of the paints



Cheers.