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Ready to put some color on brake calipers on my 99 coupe. Problem can not make up my mind to powder coat , paint , or order a set of Z06 replacements. What do the forum members that has been through the process suggest.
Ready to put some color on brake calipers on my 99 coupe. Problem can not make up my mind to powder coat , paint , or order a set of Z06 replacements. What do the forum members that has been through the process suggest.
I would go with powdercoating. One of our vendors here, Mike the Powdercoater, always gets great reviews and he does LOTS of corvette stuff including calipers. Actually he is sending me a set of the powder-coated calipers today.
Mike quoted me 120 shipped for two front calipers (you choose the color(s), and 280 shipped for all four plus all four caliper brackets. They are on a core-exchange, so you receive his; then send yours back. If you want to replace the calipers with new ones, you're looking at $350+ for just the fronts alone, unless you buy used ones.
This made the choice clear to me... powdercoating was the only option in my mind.
I painted mine recently and they turned out great. However, one of them already has a chip and when they get beat up to the point where they look bad I will definitely get them powdercoated by Mike.
If you care about your calipers enough to think about painting them powdercoating them is the best route. As someone mentioned, paint chips, starts to chip off the rest of the paint, it fades and gets dirty. Not any of that with powdercoating.
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Painting them is the easiest, don't have to remove them. Paint holds up well also. Duplicolor's Caliper Paint kit was about $15 several years ago when I did mine.
I would go with powdercoating. One of our vendors here, Mike the Powdercoater, always gets great reviews and he does LOTS of corvette stuff including calipers. Actually he is sending me a set of the powder-coated calipers today.
Mike quoted me 120 shipped for two front calipers (you choose the color(s), and 280 shipped for all four plus all four caliper brackets. They are on a core-exchange, so you receive his; then send yours back. If you want to replace the calipers with new ones, you're looking at $350+ for just the fronts alone, unless you buy used ones.
This made the choice clear to me... powdercoating was the only option in my mind.
That sounds like a great price so I just now sent them an email for that quote and info...DEFINATELY getting this done. Was already to go with buying the paint kit and doing it myself but after reading this and seeing them, Im going this route!! Good thread!!!!
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Unless you are having problems with your current calipers, no need to spend the money on the Z06 ones - they are exactly the same calipers just in red. Here's another vote for powdercoating from Mike the Powdercoater. He does great work.
You could also paint them yourself - not hard to do and the results are very good. I used a caliper paint from Folia Tec and after 6 years the calipers still looked fantastic.
03-27-2009, 07:11 PM
Brake calipers
