Painted Calipers and Rotors - Ford Forums

Timmeh · 01-22-2003, 03:39

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.

Timmeh · 01-22-2003, 03:41

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.

Cheers.......... Tim

D_XR8 · 01-22-2003, 03:43

Nice work! I did the same not long ago and also for the same reason, they rust too fast! I also then bought 18" rims so you could see it even more.

It only took about 4 hours to do all 4 wheels

01-22-2003, 04:51

looks great tim! Might do mine green.. maybe powder coated.. mmm :)

JG33PY · 01-22-2003, 14:41

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.

fUSiON · 01-22-2003, 15:23

looks good zan!

i do recommend you clear coat it :)

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.

:)

And im sure it'll last way over 2 years as well.

JG33PY · 01-22-2003, 21:07

hahahahaha the car will be off the road for about 2 weeks just to put the paint on

Jamie XR6 · 01-22-2003, 21:16

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Originally posted by nak302
hahahahaha the car will be off the road for about 2 weeks just to put the paint on

I did mine on a weekend. Three coats each with a brush. I ached for a week after laying on the concrete floor of the garage!

http://www.fordforums.com/gallery/sh...php?photo=1897

fUSiON · 01-22-2003, 23:17

rofl.

took me a few hours, 2/3 .. and it was fine cuz my brakes were still nice toasty cuz i had a nice run before i did it lol

paint dried even faster!

Timmeh · 01-23-2003, 02:42

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

Cheers....... Tim