Painted Calipers on Pewter cars
07-07-2009, 11:11 AM
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Painted Calipers on Pewter cars
Hello.. do you guys have any pics i can look at? i currently have black brackets and calipers but i need to re do them cause i didnt do a good job on the prep. (paint is peeling off). i was thinking red brackets with black calipers? or maybe yellow and black?
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07-07-2009, 11:18 AM
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Don't have a pic handy other than my sig, but I did mine with red calipers and a black bracket. I think it looked great.
07-07-2009, 12:49 PM
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I painted mine red originally, using the 2-part epoxy. I prepped the crap out of them and took great care in painting them -- whole project took me over 8 hours.... After 2 years, they looked like poopoo, so this time I went with powdercoating (CorvettePilot). I'm a DIY guy for everything, but never again will I paint my own calipers on any car. I couldn't be happier with the finish (2 years later) OR the color!! [Ignore the dirt...]
07-07-2009, 01:57 PM
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Here's mine (Powdercoated red with red brackets):
I was gonna do black, but I decided it wasn't worth the cost of powdercoating just to be black. They actually came out very nice red, and doing the brackets as well makes the brakes look bigger
I was gonna do black, but I decided it wasn't worth the cost of powdercoating just to be black. They actually came out very nice red, and doing the brackets as well makes the brakes look bigger
..thats why i was thinking of going Black calipers and red brackets
07-10-2009, 04:28 PM
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I don't have any photos, but mine are gray, with red C O R V E T T E lettering, against black rims. 
But that BLUE is looking nice.
But that BLUE is looking nice.
07-10-2009, 05:15 PM
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My Sebring Silver has red ones a la Duplicolor
Used the brush-on Duplicolor red when I did front and rear brakes about 2 or 3 years ago. Painted CORVETE white. When burshing on I used about 4 or 5 coats to cover well. Cleaned the calipers with a small brush and pleanty of break cleaner. Still looks good years later.
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