Brake Caliper Painting - on or off ?
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Can I ask a stupid question or two
I want to paint my brake calipers and have seen a previous thread by kojak69 which shows them as red painted with hammerite.
Do you have to take the calipers off to paint them then ? Or can you do it on the disk so to speak ?
How do you keep the TVR bit white and the AP writing thing, I was thinking of blue calipers and then gold lettering as it would match the car.
Any suggestions gratefully received -
I want to paint my brake calipers and have seen a previous thread by kojak69 which shows them as red painted with hammerite.
Do you have to take the calipers off to paint them then ? Or can you do it on the disk so to speak ?
How do you keep the TVR bit white and the AP writing thing, I was thinking of blue calipers and then gold lettering as it would match the car.
Any suggestions gratefully received -
TVRWhoa said:
Can I ask a stupid question or two
I want to paint my brake calipers and have seen a previous thread by kojak69 which shows them as red painted with hammerite.
Do you have to take the calipers off to paint them then ? Or can you do it on the disk so to speak ?
How do you keep the TVR bit white and the AP writing thing, I was thinking of blue calipers and then gold lettering as it would match the car.
Any suggestions gratefully received -
i took mine off,ideal chance to put on goodridge hoses if you havent already?,would recommend a caliper laquer,i used an Etech one,its a one pot paint as apposed to mixing two pack and painting against the clock,mine are blue too,looks great!!
You can buy paint caliper kits which include cleaner and hardener(£20 in all colours). Hamerite may suffer with the heatand peel.
Unless you have a warm garage I would wait until the weather warms up. I have just done mine and ended up heating the calipers with a hair dryer to start the curing process. Look good now though.
Unless you have a warm garage I would wait until the weather warms up. I have just done mine and ended up heating the calipers with a hair dryer to start the curing process. Look good now though.
If anyone needs Goodridge Stainless steel hoses for their Cerb, or any other car, drop me a line, The Co. I work for are Hose Specialists and Goodridge distributors (over 15 years) and can supply different coloured outer sleeving too. also we can supply PTFE and Stainless Braided Oil pipes. etc.
Cheers,
Cooky
Cheers,
Cooky
doddze said:
You can buy paint caliper kits which include cleaner and hardener(£20 in all colours). Hamerite may suffer with the heatand peel.
Unless you have a warm garage I would wait until the weather warms up. I have just done mine and ended up heating the calipers with a hair dryer to start the curing process. Look good now though.
Anyone know where you can purchase paint caliper kits?
[quote=TVRWhoa]Can I ask a stupid question or two
I want to paint my brake calipers and have seen a previous thread by kojak69 which shows them as red painted with hammerite.
Do you have to take the calipers off to paint them then ? Or can you do it on the disk so to speak ?
I painted my calipers in situ, but it is easy
if youve got spiders. ive got a light blue metalic
car. the wheels are silver spiders with gold centres.
painted the calipers gold, highlighted the writing
in black. used ordinary metal paint and its stayed
on for 18 months so far. looks smart.
I want to paint my brake calipers and have seen a previous thread by kojak69 which shows them as red painted with hammerite.
Do you have to take the calipers off to paint them then ? Or can you do it on the disk so to speak ?
I painted my calipers in situ, but it is easy
if youve got spiders. ive got a light blue metalic
car. the wheels are silver spiders with gold centres.
painted the calipers gold, highlighted the writing
in black. used ordinary metal paint and its stayed
on for 18 months so far. looks smart.
kojak said:
pkjks said:
I wanna do mine too. As usual I cannot make my mind up on colour. Mine is a viper blue. Anyone got any pics of painted calipers on a blue cerb? please
see my profile.
Although the pic is of the wheel and nuts.
>> Edited by kojak on Friday 4th March 14:10
Talking of your profile, just seen your 'milked.free'......Awesome, just the thing for a Friday afternoon
cirvy said:
kojak said:
pkjks said:
I wanna do mine too. As usual I cannot make my mind up on colour. Mine is a viper blue. Anyone got any pics of painted calipers on a blue cerb? please
see my profile.
Although the pic is of the wheel and nuts.
>> Edited by kojak on Friday 4th March 14:10
Talking of your profile, just seen your 'milked.free'......Awesome, just the thing for a Friday afternoon
Glad you like it Simon.
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