Painted my calipers last night

[wuzzzer]

Well, last night I did my summer/winter wheel swap at my friend's garage and painted my brake calipers at the same time.
I decided to go with 'hunter green' paint from Home Depot. The only other choices were black, brown, white, and yellow.
It wasn't too hard painting them at all. I just followed the instructions from Ron Porter on the v8sho.com email list and it went really well. I'll probably have to touch it up a little bit next spring when I do the wheel swap again, but for now it'll do fine.
If I ever get a digital camera, I'll take some pics. Now that I have the OEM wheels on you can't see the calipers as much as you can with my wide-open spoked 17s, but I think it still is a nice cosmetic touch.
Only cost me $10.52 for 3 disposable brushes, a can of lacquer thinner, and can of paint that I maybe used 1/100th of the paint in it.

 

[SHOntell]

I need to do some touch-up on mine once I do my swap. I bet it looks nice.
Mike

 

[SHOZ123]

It's really a nice touch for the SHO. I use Duplicllor 1200F engine spray paint. Every time I rotate the tires I spray another coat on to cover the embedded brake dust. Holds up well to the heat too.

 

[NECGP]

I did this also about a month ago. i did the calipers in ebony satin and the pads in silver.

 

[SHODWN]

It all comes off, I did mine last year in the brake paint (cant think of the name) VHT something, and cooked it off. Turned the white paint cocoa brown.

I will admit, I out drove the brakes but them small 11.6 brakes ger super hot..

Side not Mark, I painted my stockers in the rear to match the front RED with black brackets, and with the 17" wheels it makes the tiny brakes stand way out like rice ville

 

[Dave97SHO]

SHODWN:
It all comes off, I did mine last year in the brake paint (cant think of the name) VHT something, and cooked it off. Turned the white paint cocoa brown.

I will admit, I out drove the brakes but them small 11.6 brakes ger super hot..

Side not Mark, I painted my stockers in the rear to match the front RED with black brackets, and with the 17" wheels it makes the tiny brakes stand way out like rice ville

I'm thinking about call Uncle Ben

 

[Ian Macoomb]

Speaking of the calipers... what are they made from? Any chance of getting them polished up all nice and shiny?

 

[jthomas68]

They are made of cast steel.Not as easy as aluminum,but i could polish them,and with a clear coat,they shouldn`t rust.I actually just discussed this on Saturday,and plan on doing my own in the spring.