Celica Forums General Discussion Exterior Painted my calipers...

I painted my calipers yesterday Just want to know what you all think ...

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good job

look good. what psint did you use? nice and glossy

CTH I think from autozone n then I applied clear coat for that glossy finish came out really nice and easy to wash the caliper dust.

great

looks good

Caleb's are red too

what color shoudl i paint mine? red or blue? i dont have anything else red but it stands out well?

caleb's car is carbon blue and he painted em red...looks good

You have spectra?? I think the red calipers stands out well against the blue colors

red calipers look good on all color cars.. especially since its the normal color for sport brakes

awsome i think i may just do that then

nice job!


your trd eyelid looks a little off placement on that first pic

looks great, nice rims btw

what's it take to do that??? i've been wanting to do that for a while, but didn't want to try without knowing what i'm doing...

there is a writup in the intall i belive. if not here then on newcelicaDOTorg. U can take off oyur wheels, clean the brakes really well, mask them off and paint them i belive. shouldnt be to hard. how exactly did you do urs Alejandro?

cool, found it. thanks man.
for anyone else looking for it, click here

I've always like just painting them black because you can't see them, I think they usually just stand out to much on most cars. For example I think the blue car with red calipers will look horrible..

nice...did you paint around the rotor? Looks like you just did teh top part and forgot about the rest. NIce job none the less.

well its 1 to 3 so far on if i shoudl go blue or red with red winning I personally like them to stand out. Just dont knwo if i shodul go blue or red

very nice

Why paint your tiny stock calipers?

because we cant afford large, prepainted ones

seriously... LOL

haha WTF why do I paint my tiny calipers? anyways Hey hombredelasratas go with red man would look way better than blue trust me... and get the VHT caliper paint from autozone for 7.99.

Ok guys for Everyone That Liked how they turn out this is what I USED for them:

1. Clean the calipers extremely well get all the dust and everything out I used brake parts cleaner works very well.

2. The apply the Paint of course, I suggest You do this In several THIN LAYERS this is very important for a great finished and let like 10 to 20 min between each layer of paint.

3. After that Is done let it dry and then apply The clear coat,Again guys several thin layers 5 to 7 will be enough. Clear coat will help with the brightness and will help from dust gettingin the calipers and cleaning them 1000 times easier.

Anyways Any questions Everybody is welcome TO PM me Im more than happy to help everyone Thats Why Ecelica Is the SHIET

Enjoy
alex

how long did you wait between paint and clearcoat?

also did you jsut mask it all off or did you take the calipers off and everything?

looks sweet...love the glossy look

I painted my recently too, used a caliper paint kit (Dupli-color).
Came with caliper cleaner, paint, tape, and a brush (no spray )

Masking off the caliper woulda been too much of a pain, so I just free-handed it with the brush, I think it came out fairly well. I didn't do absolutely every part of the caliper (the metal-looking parts I left alone, while the rouger surfaced areas I sanded and painted). I'll post some pics up when I have a chance to take some


I did this a few weeks ago, I'm just not on the ball lately!

Oh yeah, the kit was like $15 or so from Kragen
Considering how much everything else costs around here, it didn't seem too bad!

Great job and nice rims!

hombredelasrtas: I took the brakes apart thats the best thing you can do To clean them very well because If you left dust and dirt the paint its gonna come off in like a week or two Its better do it right once and dont do it again happened to me before and I didnt cover enything dont even worry abour paint getting on the disk once you start using the brakes its gonna come off right away and ill said wait like 2 to 3 hours to apply the clear coat and I highly suggest that you let the paint dry ovcernight meaning dont drive the car at all that day .


Arummdark: Yeah I know I bought that one before but I didnt like the tone of red color, It wasnt bring enough. I recommend this paint way better than dupli-color one for the brightess and the glossy finish its all thanks to The clear coat

later guys
alex

noticed your clear corner bulb was blue? you ever get in trouble for that?

...LOOK-A-NICE!!!!

never they are hyper white which is legal