here are some general steps to polishing out your calipers and or painting them using dupli-colors metal cast.

Step 1 remove wheel & asses the situation.


step 2 remove all dirt & grim from any surface to be painted w/ a degreaser of choice. spray solvent Scrub, rinse, scrub, rinse, scrub, rinse, using a mild brush. Then dry. (dry using blow dryer or cloth will do.)
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after a thorough rinse this should be your ending prod.


step 3 polishing here you will need a wire brush & a **** load of elbow grease, unless you are using a drill as i did, w/ a coarse wire brush NOT FINE OR ANYTHING HEAVY! you will damage the caliper by digging into the material. Polish to desired finish


here is a finished sample (if you want it chrome/polished stop here & add a clear coat...high heat/ metalcast clear)


Step 4 mask off areas that you do not want paint on if you are to lazy to remove the caliper as i was. Then begin w/ a light misty coat...proceed with another coat @ a minimum of 10 min. intervals depending on climate.

 

You spent more time masking **** off than it would have taken to undo two bolts, and then throw a plastic bag over the knuckle...
Kids these days...

 

Nothing quite like spray painting all over the sliding surfaces of the brake pads. You took the total half assed approach. The caliper should have been removed as well as the pads and all brake pad hardware before you even started with the wire brush.

 

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Nice. Looks brand spanking.

 

I can never get why people do this for. Good luck because it's gonna fade. You should have powder coated it.

 

cool

 

You took the lazy way out, but those are by far the cleanest calipers I've ever seen on a car.

Did you recently install them?

 

Rattle can paint can be quite durable if you do it right. I did my front calipers blue with a paint can and it lasted two years quite nicely. BTW, i took mine off the car and dissassembled them though (lengthy process I admit)

 

Yeah I remembered when I painted the brake calipers on my old car (back in my ricer days) I took them completely off the car, because I didn't want paint on the rubber slide pin boots or anything like that. But then of course I had to bleed the brakes when I put them back on the car. No big deal, though, and the paint held up really well over the years.