I REP 838

So I bought the red caliper paint that's made for high temperatures. I also bought the brake cleaner to clean off the calipers before I paint them. My only question remains...

Should I just mask off the area I'm going to paint and leave the calipers on the car? Or should I remove the whole caliper which would require me to remove the break line and then I'd have to bleed my brakes afterwards?

Blah!

I know alot of you OZ people have done this. Let me know please! I don't want to mess anything up

RWElphinstone

I spray painted my last car's calipers - as long as you mask everthing off, you should be fine. Just make certain you're in a well ventilated area, or the paint will float around and get on everything! (including uncovered areas)

I REP 838

I'd be outside? is that fine? I don't want to get paint on my car

PDXRalliArt

iTrader: (45)

I painted mine this weekend. Mask the whole area, then mask some more. When you think you got everything masked and good to go, mask some more.

I say this because I got some overspray on my fender and some suspension parts.

Good luck.

I REP 838

pics? did you leave the whole caliper on while painting them?

Deltarider99

yeah pics! I want to do this as well, but I'm scared to death I'll screw it up.

You guys think black will look good? The ride is red.

RollerPyro

iTrader: (5)

Just take your caliper off, it's not that hard. The extra time is worth the better quality job and saves you the hastle of worrying about masking stuff off.

I REP 838

Yeah, but then you gotta bleed the brakes like I had too, and that takes awhile, and more money of course cuz you'll need to buy brake fluid, and you'll also get the freshly painted calipers dirty from the brake pads when you're re-installing your calipers. It was a f'n hastle and if I had to do it all over again I'd probably just mask the hell out of the area and left them on while doing it. All in all, they look good, now I need to do the back 2 lol

greyhulk

iTrader: (1)

all i did was break down most of the breaks and then painted them after i masked the crap out of them, ill post some pics after i was my car today.

Rydog

iTrader: (3)

just buy some Brembo's. they look so much better....and oh yeah, they work better too.
hehhe.

Shadow

I am going to be doing this today, My friend just did it on the his Subaru. He took aoff the brake calipers but clamped the lines so he didn't have to bleed them. Hopefully I can get pics up tonight of how we're doing it.

pinoynoskillz

Rydog... do you have brembo's on yours? if so.. what kind... product number? reply back

95TsiAWD

Not sure how you'd be able to clamp them so that no air enters the system. Some fluid is going to leak out between teh clamp and caliper and if you fumble the caliper a bit you're going to lose fluid out of it as well.
That being said, if the car is already up on stands and you have a buddy, bleeding the brakes is a 10 minute affair.

Rydog

iTrader: (3)

hahah, i wish. i was just being a smart ***! one day tho, one day......

Rydog

iTrader: (3)

Ok boys, finally snapped some stills of the newly painted calipers.
What do you think?
(These pics are being hosted from my server btw)
Front:



Rear:


Rest of the pics can be found here, labelled 'caliper' at the bottom of the list.
http://www.telusplanet.net/public/ry.../mylancerpics/
Lemme know what ya think!!