Painted Calipers
 

I'm guessing I'm not the only one here who's painted there calipers before. In no way do I claim to be an expert on this, just did a bunch of reading online and asked around before deciding on everything, and figured I'd share what I did.

My front calipers were looking pretty rough. So decided to paint them. After reading around, asking around, I decided to just use regular rustoleum spray paint. Here's the before pic:
http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachm...1&d=1346986129

For prep, I unloaded a can of brake cleaner on them to get them clean. Then took a wire wheel to them. Then sprayed more brake cleaner on them. Here's what they looked like all said and done:
http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachm...2&d=1346986129

Then using tape, newspaper, whatever I could find, I masked off the areas I didn't want to get paint on. Then hung them so they were ready to paint
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/IMAG1664.jpg

Applied 3 coats of gloss black rustoleum, each coat within about an hour of each other.
http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachm...3&d=1346986143

I let the last coat dry outside and with a fan on it for about 5 hours, then applied these decals I bought off ebay.
http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachm...4&d=1346986143
http://mitsustyle.com/forums/attachm...5&d=1346986150

Last thing was I applied 5 very light coats of rustoleum clear over them. Let dry overnight, reinstalled, and that's it. Looks much better. Time will tell how they hold up I suppose.
http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/data/656/IMAG1673.jpg
http://www.dsmstyle.com/photopost/da.../IMAG16722.JPG

Re: Painted Calipers
 

Looks good, now you just need different rims so they really stand out

Re: Painted Calipers
 

Regular rustoleum paint? Not even high heat? With any high speed braking, calipers really heat up. Hopefully the paint doesnt start flaking since its not high heat.

When I did my DSM calipers red, I bead blasted them and then painted them with a caliper paint kit.

Looks good though!

Re: Painted Calipers
 

I've had good success using the various high heat caliper paints you can get at the parts store.

Re: Painted Calipers
 

I used reg paint on the brembos and they are still holding up fine also.

Re: Painted Calipers
 

looks good, had my auto body guy do my calipers....looked like they just came out of the factory

Re: Painted Calipers
 

Very nice, looks sexy.

Re: Painted Calipers
 

Looks good. I'm putting in drilled rotors, ceramic pads, and getting all new calipers that I'm going to repaint with high heat paint. Might post it up later.

Re: Painted Calipers
 

Very nice looking. Glad you choose black for the color!