spdkills

I was wantin so blue caliper paint since I got my wheels on I need to spiff these up a little.

Kobayashi

have used VHT caliper paint with good results. It hard to find, I ordered mine directly from VHT.

http://www.pjhbrands.com/vht/breakcaliper.htm

k.

Sites5

Do you have any pics of your calipers?

X1_SRT

Kobayashi, was the one $7 kit enough to cover all the calipers? sounds like pretty good stuff.

-PJ

silver_rex_4eat

I painted my calipers with blue brushable caliper paint by G2. You can find it witha search engine. It costed like 50 bucks but it looks real good and shiny when done. I painted the fronts and jacked the car up waited two hours for paint to dry and then repeated process for rears. I posted a ton of pics on interior, exterior a few months back ill try ot post the pics agian.

Kobayashi

It took me two cans to do four calipers. What really makes this finish durable is the baking on process. DO not skip this step or rush it.

I dont have pics up yet but, I will shortly.

k.

Kobayashi

Hmmmm, this is a bit confusing. Powder coating is not inherently superior to spray paint. All powder coating brings to the table is good coverage and baking. Both of these same features can be found in VHT canned paints. And a number of VHT paints exceed the ultimate heat capability of powdercoats. Meaning powder coating is essentially the same as painting it just uses a slightly different delivery process, which is superior to poorly-applied solvent based products.

VHT makes a number of paints. Not all are hi-temp. Did you use a specific caliper paint and was the surface prepped correctly and was the paint baked on? If all these steps were followed you should have had no probs.

Most powdercoating shops sand or beadblast the object before coating. This is the only part of the process the average joe cant perform. Powdercoating's quality comes from the baking process and this does not guarantee true hi-temp durability. The paint material itself dictates this.

k.

mrbell

I just went at the calipers w/ a wire brush on a drill... got them pretty clean. I actually considered leaving them this way, all shiny and clean. But I think rust would have been an issue

twig

I finished painting, and re-attaching the brake calipers. Here's the front up close. I removed the calipers to clean and paint them using black engine enamel. You may find this interesting -

I did some research online and found a lab where they actually tested the temp of brake rotors:

http://www.shotimes.com/brakes/survey/brakes2.html

The info there should be applicable to most cars. It shows that a 80mph stop would create a temp of 385F. That is the temp at the rotor, keep in mind. The caliper temp is more than likely much less. The brake fluid itself has a relatively low boiling point (maybe 300F depending on the variety) and that fluid resides inside the caliper...so your calipers can't get too hot. Eitherway, the engine enamel I used was 600F paint. I saw some caliper paints were 900F in the local speedshop, but also twice the price.

N/A

I've used Foliatec on my Impreza and had a friend who used G2 on his. The results are the same but from what I remember his G2 kit was the cheaper of the two.

impreza7

I don't know what you guys pay for powdercoating, but I got a quote for $50 to do all 4 calipers withstanding up to 900 degrees, including bead-blasting. Seems like the easiest way to have it done right without questions.