caliper painting, tips anyone??? Options

[GeEkBoY]

I am switching out pads and rotors and want to paint the calipers.

anyone tips? good paint, cleaning...


Man it is messed up here in canada... not that I am complaining, but the toyota rotors were cheaper than the no-name premium, and they came plated. Pads were only a little more but they don't make TRD for the back anymore.

thanks

[hi_rider]

I just painted mine.
I strongly suggest to sandblast your stuff before. I sandblasted my calipers on the cars, but I now recommand to take them off.....you won't shoot your discs and it will be more accessible. Anyway, it is way better to remove them to paint them...But what a mess....sandblasting..hummmmmmmm.....sand everywhere in your shorts and in your car and on the ground and..and..and....

I used engine enamel a few coats, then engine enamel clear a few coats..don't by shy with coating, at first I just put 3 coats, and then it started rusting after 1 week !!!
I think the clear helps a lot, it seems thickier...

Caliper paint can resist twice the temperature of the engine enamel, but it costs more...I didn't have any peeling nor rusting since( 1 month ? ).

Spray can, by the way...

There is surely better, but it worked for me.

Painted dark grey, like the superleggeras.
If you paint colored, hope for you you can wash your calipers through holes in your wheels...it gets pretty ugly with brake dust if you don't wash them often, at each car wash...