I have gone to a few auto parts stores around me looking for high temp paint for my brake calipers, and I can't find maroon anywhere. Theyonly sell basic colors. Anyone know where I can get maroon brake caliper paint?
#800, "RE: Brake caliper painting" In response to Reply # 0
Well to be honest I dont hink you need any special hot paint color..I used ordinary color on both my Merkur and on my Eclipse and it works fine...you just need to be very careful while cleaning and do a good job..then add some ..hhmm..what ya call it...damn..like a grey spray you use under the real color...?...well then you just spray on the one you want.The calipers seldom gets so hot that the paint will fall of due to heat..more likely to wear off.....Unless you do some serious racing or streetdriving that tears your brakes real hard of course...but if not..no problemo:-)
#801, "RE: Brake caliper painting" In response to Reply # 0
Well to be honest I dont hink you need any special hot paint color..I used ordinary color on both my Merkur and on my Eclipse and it works fine...you just need to be very careful while cleaning and do a good job..then add some ..hhmm..what ya call it...damn..like a grey spray you use under the real color...?...well then you just spray on the one you want.The calipers seldom gets so hot that the paint will fall of due to heat..more likely to wear off.....Unless you do some serious racing or streetdriving that tears your brakes real hard of course...but if not..no problemo:-)
#802, "RE: Brake caliper painting" In response to Reply # 0
Well to be honest I dont hink you need any special hot paint color..I used ordinary color on both my Merkur and on my Eclipse and it works fine...you just need to be very careful while cleaning and do a good job..then add some ..hhmm..what ya call it...damn..like a grey spray you use under the real color...?...well then you just spray on the one you want.The calipers seldom gets so hot that the paint will fall of due to heat..more likely to wear off.....Unless you do some serious racing or streetdriving that tears your brakes real hard of course...but if not..no problemo:-)
#803, "RE: Brake caliper painting" In response to Reply # 0
Well to be honest I dont hink you need any special hot paint color..I used ordinary color on both my Merkur and on my Eclipse and it works fine...you just need to be very careful while cleaning and do a good job..then add some ..hhmm..what ya call it...damn..like a grey spray you use under the real color...?...well then you just spray on the one you want.The calipers seldom gets so hot that the paint will fall of due to heat..more likely to wear off.....Unless you do some serious racing or streetdriving that tears your brakes real hard of course...but if not..no problemo:-)
#804, "RE: Brake caliper painting" In response to Reply # 0
Well to be honest I dont hink you need any special hot paint color..I used ordinary color on both my Merkur and on my Eclipse and it works fine...you just need to be very careful while cleaning and do a good job..then add some ..hhmm..what ya call it...damn..like a grey spray you use under the real color...?...well then you just spray on the one you want.The calipers seldom gets so hot that the paint will fall of due to heat..more likely to wear off.....Unless you do some serious racing or streetdriving that tears your brakes real hard of course...but if not..no problemo:-)
#805, "you mean primer..." In response to Reply # 5
and he is right, you dont necessarily have to use hi temp paint because either way with disc brakes (especially on non-RS models) your biggest problem you will discover is brake dust itself. it gets so hot that it bonds pretty tightly to the paint on teh calipers and if you try to hard getting it off you may chip the paint. but with a metal surface (like a caliper) it couldnt hurt to primer it first like GSwede said (5 times)
#806, "RE: Brake caliper painting" In response to Reply # 0
No, you don't need high-heat paint, but I would recommend geting high-heat primer just to be safe. You can pick up HH primer at most auto parts stores, VHT makes it. As far as paint goes you can use any that you want, you can even get paint from Mitsu to match your car if thats what you wanted. I just used regular enamel paint on mine and it's been there for 2 yrs. with no chips or fading. Just clean them when you wash your car and they will stay nice.
#809, "RE: Brake caliper painting" In response to Reply # 9
take off the wheels (unless you got 23-inch tri-stars) and just wrap a towel toghtly between the caliper and the rotor and drape another one over the suspension. iapinted my shocks while i was at it and may go back and do the control arms later on. just be sure not to get paint on the rotor, you would think it would rub off pretty quickly from brake pressure but my friend has had blue paint on his CRX rotors for like 4 months
