I want to paint the calipers

[BLUETHUNDER]

I want to paint the AP calipers on the Cerb. What do you lot reckon on being the best colour???.

[alinton]

So do I, but how best to do it?

with a brush? Do base coat first then accent the lettering?

What sorta paint?

A.

[itiejim]

Halfords do a variety of colours (brush paint). I would suggest just painting them and rubing off the paint from the raised lettering.

Effective and not too Max Power;)

[Barkychoc]

Do you think powder coating would stand up to it or would it melt?

[alinton]

itiejim said:

Halfords do a variety of colours (brush paint). I would suggest just painting them and rubing off the paint from the raised lettering.

Effective and not too Max Power;)

Yea? Do they do high temp paint?

A.

[jesfirth]

You can buy caliper paint which takes the temperature -try demon tweaks. I have red calipers on my red 400SE - looked great

[itiejim]

Yes, they do proper caliper paint. Never tried it but most of their stuff is OK.

I'm not sure that powder coating would stand up to hard use and high temperatures.

[brakedust]

Best caliper paint I have used was hammerite smooth red, the colour was very good and lasted over 3 years on my 300zx with some serious heat at times (was running 503bhp) would probably still look good now but sold her to a mate who put her in a hedge within 2 months

[Byker28i]

For reference, Frost sell caliper paint for £9.50 in a varity of colours
http://www.frost.co.uk/item_Detail.asp?productID=8...

[markh1]

There is a guy on ebay that sells good caliper paint I think he is called 'big hitter' I used it for my calipers.....




I know it does not show the calipers in the best condition but it gives you an idea of colour.

Edited by markh1 on Thursday 28th May 07:48

[Onzlouk]

I used big hitter too, i got some purple paint to match my short intake pipes.

See here:

http://pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&amp...

[amazon]

Just done mine. I sprayed them Matt Black - lots of coats - and then painted the AP in yellow hammerite (not the easiest task to get perfect).

Not the most exciting combination of colours, but I wanted to them to look understated (unusual idea for brake calipers I think? ).

[touching cloth]

Painted mine yellow - accentuated small 4.2 discs so upgraded to 4.5 discs and callipers - painted them yellow - still accentuated (to my mind) that they didn't fill the wheel that well - painted them all back to black again and happy with it again now. Shouldn't have touched a thing

[caduceus]

Heres what they look like in gloss black with gold lettering

[Podie]

I appreciate they're not Cerb calipers, but I had the ones on the Mondeo remanufactured by www.biggred.co.uk (new seals, pistons and coated).



Certainly seem to be wearing well.

[JensenA]

markh1 said:

There is a guy on ebay that sells good caliper paint I think he is called 'big hitter' I used it for my calipers.....




I know it does not show the calipers in the best condition but it gives you an idea of colour.

Edited by markh1 on Thursday 28th May 07:48

Doesn't show them in the best condition !! Come on Mark, your being to way too critical

[markh1]

Yeah I think there is a slight fluid leak on them somewhere aswell them needing a spruce up

Edited by markh1 on Thursday 28th May 15:28

[Byker28i]

touching cloth said:

Painted mine yellow - accentuated small 4.2 discs so upgraded to 4.5 discs and callipers - painted them yellow - still accentuated (to my mind) that they didn't fill the wheel that well - painted them all back to black again and happy with it again now. Shouldn't have touched a thing

TC - what did you need to upgrade the disks/calipers? I assume you went from 291 to 304mm? Is it just the bigger disks/bells and a different caliper mount. Did you use your existing calipers?

[southendpier]

caduceus said:

Heres what they look like in gloss black with gold lettering

Mine are the opposite of this gold with black I'll see if I can get a piccie.

[brakedust]

southendpier said:

caduceus said:

Heres what they look like in gloss black with gold lettering

Mine are the opposite of this gold with black I'll see if I can get a piccie.

That's a spanking clean chassis you have there! take it you have refurbed it?