i just bought a pair of new rear wheel brake drums, i was thinking of painting them, does anyone have any tps on doing so or a faq on them.


Modified by crazydragonclk at 8:30 PM 3/1/2006

 

I searched a bit and found this. The process it pretty straight forward, probably why there aren't too many DIY threads.

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=46708
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=940527

Do not do this
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=801007
(bloody funny)

 

thanks man, u rock!

 

damn do u think it would look ugly if i painted my drum?? or should i pain it silver or soemthing, cuz i had metallic blue in mind since my car is red and has blue license covers?

 

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I think it would look ugly...just personal opinion though,if anything paint it black, but if you want to do it, go for it bro

 

Some people just paint it black so it doesn't rust. Some people paint it bright colours for attention. I would just go with black personally but it is up to you. I forsee silver getting dirty pretty quickly. But in the end it is your car and your choice.

Cheers.

 

It was a nice warm day in Toronto or Scarborough Canada and I decided to try to fix these rusty brake drums and corroded wheels

Here are the results, well i did the brake drum silver no picture of it but i ended up doing the wheels, used chrome finish on the wheels,

it took me about 2 hours, fairly quick though, I jacked the car up and took off one wheel at a time, lightly sanded it and scraped some chipped parts off and rinsed in water and dried with shop towels and used the index card method and painted it dried them for 5 min and blow dried it a lil bu the lug nut areas and put em back on, and proceded to the next.

Also tell me what you think of the windshield wiper arms, they were worn off of there original black paint and i painted them with a metallic blue?Im plnning to do the interior Dash plastic plate where the gauges are, any tips on doing that?


Closeup


After


After Pic as well


Before


Modified by crazydragonclk at 8:49 PM 3/1/2006

 

Nice work, hopefully it survives the rest of salt this winter.


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Apperance/cosmetic might be a better place to ask. I am sure if you search you will also find numerous threads.

Cheers.

 

dude there is a ninja in your car!

 

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do not do that whatever you do. on of my friends has a civic like yours and it has paint on the interior plastics. it looks like ***, all the paint is chipping off. but whatever. you choose to do it or not. my friend thinks it is cool.