Painting Calipers, any advice? Options

[NickJames]

I am going to paint my front and rear calipers as soon as the weather warms up a little more, any body do this, and can you offer some advice ie; what to tape off, how many coats, etc.... any help would be appreciated

[jc47]

I tried to do it once and don't think I ever would again. It takes forever to get them to look good, and even with high temperature paint it does not seem to last, esp. in winter. Even the powder coated replacement calipers that I bought began to rust through in about a month. I have rear drum brakes, and I do paint the drums. The only way I can get it to last is to clean and repaint them about once a year; the drums seemed to be a lot easier to paint than the calipers though. If you want to paint them, you may want to only do one and wait a couple weeks to see how it holds up before spending the time to do all four.