Re: Painting brake calipers

["Mike" <lerb@redrose.net>]

I have a friend who has powdercoated several sets I know some people here
have see his car at shows he owns a teal green 81 with a kamie kit and
fuckinmovin mounted on the deck area. His I say look awsome and work great
too. High heat paint did not last for him so he powdercoated and has had no
problems that i know of.


----- Original Message -----
From: Riley McDowall <roog@home.com>
To: Neal Tovsen <ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu>
Cc: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 10:13 PM
Subject: Re: Painting brake calipers


>At 8:47 pm -0800 10/3/99, Paul Maione wrote:
>>What I would suggest is just sand them down a bit, and
>>go out and get Super Heat Resistant paint. I'm not sure
>>how much they go for, can't be that much... Should look
>>all good.
>
>I dunno about powdercoating them.  I've never torn down a caliper before,
>so I can't really say for sure whether or not they'd be safe to powdercoat.
>However, I just got new brakes myself, and I painted my calipers.  They
>were a hideous shade of orange, so I took a wire brush to them and ground
>the old paint and grime off.  Followed that up with a good scrub with some
>brake cleaner to get the grease off.  Finished by wiping them down wiht a
>product called "tumbler" that removes everything (ie silicon) that regular
>solvent doesn't.  Masked off the rubber seal around the piston and sprayed
>them with a nice iron-colored paint.  Looks killer.
>
>BTW it goes without saying that you'll want to take the calipers off the
>car and then split the caliper from the carrier, take out the pads, guide
>pins, etc.  And then obviously you'll need to bleed the fronts when you
>bolt everything back in.  And equally obviously you'll want to avoid
>letting shit get anywhere near open brake lines/bleeders/etc.
>
>HTH!
>
>
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