After having some DBA rotors for a few months, I got sick of looking at the surface rust. I cleaned them up and painted them, and also the calipers for the brakes. Just thought I'd pop some pictures up to provide any sort of initiative for lazy people who want to do it. LOL.
The paint cost me about 20 bucks a colour, I think, for some high heat brake caliper stuff.... after cleaning off all the surface rust, a few coats of this did the trick. Although the silver looks very bright there, once they had been on the car for a week, they blend in alot better, and look alright. Also, the brakes cleaned up the join between the painted part of the rotor and the disc, so the join is less obvious. Anyways, might interest some people. Any feedback is most welcome.
nice one zantetsuken, looks good. did you take the caliper off to do it? i'll be doing mine probably metallic gold or yellow. problem is i can't find a reasonably priced twin piston conversion before i do it. hmm shoulda kept the ss.
for whoever decides to do it.. i suggest the following
2-3 Coats or HEATPROOF Primer
3-4 Coats of HEATPROOF Colour
2-3 Coats of HEATPROOF Clear or even Normal Clear.
Why so many coats your wondering?
Basically so the paint wont peal ever and wont be able to get chipped as easily as it normally would. And also then least you can use the high pressure hose to clean them without worrying the paint will fly off.
Better doing it that way so if it also DOES ever peal it'll just go back a coat of paint to the colour and not to the caliper or primer. So at least from a distance it'll look good still.
Cool... should the paint ever have any dramas, I might do all that you've described. It's just a small touch, one of the many small things that makes up a car.
And nak302 - yeah, I did remove the calipers, they and the rotors were off while I made some other front end modifications, so I just did it at the same time. Can't go putting too much effort into it. LOL
Did mine the same colour too, didn't use anything special, just cleaned up the caliper, metal primer, and red staright from a $5 can I had in the shed, had it on for about a month, no signs of it coming off yet. if I only have to do it every 12 months, i'll be happy.
I've also got a metal plate that sits on the rotors. Is this just there to stop brake dust etc? cause it covers 1/2 the caliper from view.
Didn't take mine off, just masked itaround the metal clips in the middle etc.
LOL me and my mates made a night out of it a few weeks back...
went to United servo (with a carwash section) and jacked up our cars there... lol
we were spraying the paint into the lid and painting it on with brushes (scared of overspray)... it took me 1 hour each caliper/rotor.. left United at 5:30am
Turned out great though!
i Did mine green.
Better doing it that way so if it also DOES ever peal it'll just go back a coat of paint to the colour and not to the caliper or primer. So at least from a distance it'll look good still.
When I did mine, i heated the discs up first (by using the brakes), then painted the callipers. Once they were touch dry (about 10 mins), I put the whole lot back together and gave the car a flogging, heating the brakes up which baked the paint on. If you do it this way, there is no need to use heatproof paint, Export paint at $2.50 per can from Clints, or Supercheap, works a treat! I've had mine painted for 18 months, and they are still as shiny as the day I painted them, and I use a K'Archer high pressure spray to clean the brake dust off them!
The the black metal plates that sit between the rim and the wheel hubs are just brake dust covers, take them off. It won't do any harm and looks better without them.
But if it works, what does it matter how much it cost? Dude? And you do NOT need to use heatproof paint. They sell it because they can add an extra $5 per can to the price and people think it's great.
jcv, i bet you also use the clints $2 cans to wiff up a bit sometimes too eh?
seems so! lol
they made heatproof paint for those cold windy icey cold days, thats what i think... im pretty sure.. dont know why they'd make a paint to resist high temps on mechanical parts etc.. who knows.. beats me! .. maybe there stupid
I painted the disc centres and callipers on my AUII some 18 months ago with a can of $2 silver paint, to the day I traded her in (a month ago) the paint was still A-OK.!
I don't have a close up of my callipers with the $2 paint - this is the best i can do, but it still looks as good now as when i first did it - the trick is not what paint you use, but how you apply it. Baking it on is the best method!
The the black metal plates that sit between the rim and the wheel hubs are just brake dust covers, take them off. It won't do any harm and looks better without them.
Mine get covered in dust with them on, every time I drive it.
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