aight, so for sure this has already been done, but i was doing it and had a camera, so heres my first DIY.

Ok so, i'm getting my rims on next week and i want the brakes to look nice and pretty when i do, so i went over to ****-mart and picked up a can of high heat paint, gathered some supplies from around my house and tackled it this afternoon.

i basically just didn't want the brakes looking rusty, so i stuck with flat black. At the store they also had: glossy black, chrome, gun metal, red and yellow


heres the ugly wheel:


you need your trusty honda jack:


so then you jack up the car, then after much struggling and grunting, you remove the wheel:



then i sanded with some 100 grit sand paper for the rust, followed by a quick pass with some steel wool. this brings the rust to the surface and its kinda powdery:


after that i brushed on some rust killing solution (motomaster) and let it sit for a couple of minutes. Then following the directions for the solution i rinsed with water (used a squirt bottle to avoid getting everything wet), and while it was still wet, i wet-sanded with 600 grit sandpaper. I then cleaned and dried the whole caliper and began taping off the rest of the brake and suspension.


then i wet the ground around to make sure there was no dust while painting, and followed the directions from the can. i did 2 heavy coats, waiting a couple of minutes in between and then 15-20 mins at the end before putting the wheel back on.



i'll post some more pics when i get my rims on next week.

by the way if anyone wants to by 4X 13" OEM honda steelies, i'm willing to sell cheap. They have toyo tires on them with some decent tread left and their all in tip top shape... I'll even clean them! pm me

 

Eh, It's best to use brakleen and a scotch brite pad to get everything off, and take the extra minute to take the calper off the disk to get all around it.

 

not bad