LilDevil

Just ordered some new Motegi's and low profs but nothing looks worse than a sharp set of rims with rusty brake calibers behind them.. Any suggestion on paint or process?

Thanks

Ricey McRicerton

calipers....its brake calipers

LilDevil

I was assuming that most people would be able to figure that out on their own Riceboy. BTW (that means "By the way") there is an apostrophe in the word it's.


[Modified by LilDevil, 10:24 PM 4/22/2002]

Spade

Black.

Ricey McRicerton

My bad man....just saw your post count and assumed you might not know...not trying to be a dick, just trying to help. No hard feelings i hope. But i agree either black or stainless steel look.

owen_the_soyboy

black or the stock bronze-ish color is always a nice clean look that wont draw attention to something that needs no attention.

khoalie

anything dark like black or gunmetal.
light colors will get dirty fast and it's a bitch to clean

B18C5-EH2

Paint them red y0! Porsche's have red calibers y0!

I'm just kidding man - I could not help but poke fun at the attempt to correct your spelling that had a grammatical error in it to.

I'd say black also. When Honda reman calipers they are black. From the factory they are a goldish color with lots of rainbow patterns - this is impossible to duplicate with just mere paint.

Flat black is Honda's own replacement color, so I'd go with that. The only problem with painting calipers is that obviously brake fluid and paint don't go well together. The really good caliper "coatings" come in ghetto-*** colors and really shiny black rather than O.E flat black.

Try finding a really heavy duty flat black if you can.

Good luck!


[Modified by B18C5-EH2, 12:02 AM 4/23/2002]

piscorpio

I like ricey red calipers....but thats just me.

Briman2021

I was in your exact position about 8 months ago.

I had gotten gunmetal motegi MR7's, and when I saw the calipers and drums, it looked just plain nasty so here is what I did.

This is extremely easy to do and give pretty good results for the lack of effort it takes.

Get a dremel (3-5 hours to do a good job), or if you have a lot of time (15+ hours to do a good job) get sandpaper.

Take the wheel off and get your car up on jackstands.

Sand all of the rust and **** off of the calipers and drums.

Mask off all the **** you don't want to paint.

Spray it down, wait about 15 minutes and do it again.

I used 3 coats and it lasted throught a Minnesota winter with no noticable chips.

I used standard flat black high temp paint, simple as that.

I would use black or gunmetal, or just sand it all down and clear coat it if your want the stock look, b/c the clear coat should at least help slow down the rust.

Kamin

i didnt use a dremel on mine i used a rust removing jelly that i got from jcwhitney. it RULES. goes on like pepto bismol takes about 2 coats (an hour at the most)
i painted mine red (red car)
they look awesome just make sure you get high heat paint

Phantom

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