Caliper paint

[boredbloke]

caliper paint,

anyone know where i can get hold of a can of dark green?

alternatively would hamerite be able to withstand the heat?

cheers all

[Dave]

i've always used hamerite on mine an has been ok!

[Aragorn]

standard acrylic car paint will handle 220c which is more than enough

i painted my calipers with plasticote and my brothers with vauxhall glasiar white from halfords

just remember to remove the sliders and mask the piston seals off

and use a primer

[boredbloke]

I'll be painting by hand anyways i can't be assed to remove them from the car but yeah obviously i'll be careful to mask up everything,

cheers guys!

[Stuart]

Dans bro said he used hammerite on his calipers and once hot the paint all ran off lmao

[mikey14sr]

A mate of mine re-cons callipers now and again, he strips them right down, shot blasts and nitro-primes them at work, then just uses normal spray paint. He hasn't had any complaints about the paint to-date, and he did the first set over a year ago.

[Jim]

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Jim

[Dar]

I managed to burn my caliper paint off of my drums. The disc calipers have been fine though.

[Fester]

Hammerite Smooth baby:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/SJJura/My%20Cars/Nova%20GTE/Colouring%20Drums/P1010015.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/SJJura/My%20Cars/Nova%20GTE/Colouring%20Drums/P1010026.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/SJJura/My%20Cars/Nova%20GTE/Colouring%20Drums/P1010061.jpg


Never did the calipers though...

[mikey14sr]

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Jim

lmfao at that jim! has to be said though, it is really a styling topic, as the color of your brakes doesn't really matter other than to person who owns the car wanting them to look nice.

[boredbloke]

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Jim

lmfao at that jim! has to be said though, it is really a styling topic, as the color of your brakes doesn't really matter other than to person who owns the car wanting them to look nice.

well almost but i believe the question was where i could buy it from?
not how do i do it....?

[Jim]

well almost but i believe the question was where i could buy it from?
not how do i do it....?

Please tell me you have more common sense than this. It doesn't take a genius to figure out that this sort of paint can be bought from Halfords :roll:

Jim

[boredbloke]

actually me local don't have dark green :wink:

hence why i asked specifically for dark green

stop diggin u get!

[Aragorn]

try homebase or bnq then

[Stuart]

or ask your hellfrauds to order it.......

[Jim]

actually me local don't have dark green :wink:

hence why i asked specifically for dark green

stop diggin u get!

I'm not diggin :P If you had said all this at the start then I wouldn't have replied in the first instance ;)

Jim

[skud52]

actually i think halfords can mix there own paint for you

[scott.parker]

I managed to burn my caliper paint off of my drums. The disc calipers have been fine though.


Ahh yes the burnt look! :wink: :lol:
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/4105/rearwheelburntdrum5ld.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
I can smell the paint cooking right now :P

Scott

[Adam]

I did mine on my old car with hammerite smooth, and i never smelt any burning paint :lol:

[Dar]

Scott.......SNAP!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/DPursey/DSC03757Small.jpg

[boredbloke]

so would ya say it's better to fork out the lil extra and get the proper stuff...?

[Stuart]

hmm looks like ive got baked white paint to look forward to lmao

[Dar]

Stuart - Yup :twisted:
boredbloke - That WAS the proper stuff!
I suppose thats why its called caliper paint rather than drum paint :wink:

[Fester]

The Hammerite Smooth never burnt off :!:

[Fester]

Stuart - Yup :twisted:
boredbloke - That WAS the proper stuff!
I suppose thats why its called caliper paint rather than drum paint :wink:

So do the drums get hotter than the calipers? Don't bother with the caliper paint in that case :lol:

[Stuart]

fester, you probably never braked hard enough lmao :P

[scott.parker]

Well i was going to say that,basic driving they should be fine,but after track days mine got all blisterd like that.

Scott

[Aragorn]

i spose thats prolly because the drums the friction material where as the caliper is just the mechanical device that makes the brakes work

im sure if u painted yur front disks u'd have a similar experiance :P