jerseynick

Has anyone painted their calipers? How did they come out? Did you spray or brush?

ALLEGRO

Just took my wheels off and painted the calipers on the car.

Used the Duplicolor product and had a great experience without any problems.

Very easy and a great addition to the look!

jerseynick

Looks great where did you get the paint? did you buy corvette decal or paint. Thanks for the info

Glennm27

Painted with a brush.
Rustoleum Sunrise Red Gloss
Total Cost, $3.49 for the can of paint. I have painted about 5 other cars calipers after mine and still have more than half the can left.

lavla

Hey,

I didn't paint the calipers because I was told that by painting them they become overheated. I did paint the "CORVETTE" lettering on the front calipers, though. I painted them with the touch up paint (torch red, the same color as my car) that I bought from the dealer.

Lou

pewter99

brush with Folia Tec 1st time 3 years ago....just changed from Black to Red...this time sprayed Duplicolor Red 1200 degree paint...sanded the letters down to silver again....

jeromeunderwood

Wow! Your rims and calipers look great, I have been debating doing this myself... I think the red Z06 calipers and slotted roters would look great on my tourch red vert. What do you think?

Pilot1996

I pulled mine off, spray painted them with Red Engine Paint, baked them in the oven at 220 and put them back on.

I sanded the letters with a very fine sand paper to get them silver again.

They look great!

Only downside was because I took them off, I broke the seal on the line. Because they were antilock, I had to take them to the dealer to get them to stop being mushy. Cost me ~$60...still much cheaper than new Z06 calipers.

Hope this helps,

Mac

Glennm27

Jerome, Thanks for the compliment.

As for your car, Yes I think that would all look great on your car. I love Torch Red Corvettes so I have a bit of a biased opinion.

diyguy

I reluctantly painted mine using of all things "Wal-Mart" Caliper paint. As they say, you get what you pay for.

Was a disaster - I prepped each caliper carefully, brushed all surfaces I could with cleaner, then used thier spray can of cleaner, allowed to dry, the started the paint process.

A total nightmare from the first brush stroke. It woud cover in some areas and not in others. Kept buildling up the coats until they sort of looked OK. Let them dry for an hour, then one more final coat to get full coverage and meld the brush streaks out.

It's OK at a distance, but can't wait for a warm day, yank um off, and head to the bead blast machine and start over!

RandW

Same thing with me, luckily I only did one caliper. Going to try Glennm27's rustoleum idea-less expensive, too!

LTCHAPPA

Semi-gloss black Duplicolor engine spray paint.

Blowtorch

Brake cleaner, VHT spray applied with a brush, 120 grit sand paper, a razor blade, in the driveway, no taping, about 4 hours!

I have gotten compliments a plenty!

MikeJamesC5

I used Folia-Tec and painted them on with a brush. If I did it all over again I would by the red Z06 calipers.
It was a pain in the azz. I would recommend using the spray type caliper kit. The brush on ones you have to worry about streaks, brush hairs etc. etc.
I'll probley take mine off sometime and either re-paint them or buy the Z06 ones like I was going to do in the first place. Mine don't look bad but there is something about them I don't like.

jrose7004

I used spray VHT from AutoZone!

Stock Man

Here's mine. Painted with a brush with Rustoleum Red. Did about 3 coats till it was smooth. Sanded between coats. It was cold so the paint didn't flow to well. But they turned out great and still looks good after 15k miles.

pewter99

yeah don't buy the G2 crap either...looks like Folia TEc...but IT IS NOT!!!!!!

srchief100

Painted mine with Rustoleum Red, a very high gloss. Removed the wheels, taped and sprayed. About 3 hrs drying time, and then used a sanding pencil to bring the CORVETTE letters on the front calipers back to silver. Many miles, many washes, no problems. About $5.00 bucks, and a 6 of Bush Light

The best part was my G/F Janie hung out with me and offered her guidance and support and was sweet enough to bring the cold grain based beverages as needed

RoadReady

How close is the Rustoleum to Torch Red?

Thanks

SteveL2

I painted mine a couple of years ago. I used hi-temp engine primer and followed it with body-color matching GM spray paint (about $8/can, 3 cans for all 4 calipers). There has not been any cracking on them and my car has been to both the 1/4 mile track and the roadcourse.

Here's an old pic back when they were done:



For a tip, I used to have a pic that I can't now locate, but what I did was remove the wheel and took a large trash bag and cut a hole in the bottom. Then I slipped the regular top of the bag over the brake assembly and pulled the brake assembly through the hole in the bottom of the bag. By doing this, you can then slide the bag into various places and tape it off so that it will block off any overspray in the area. I also bought cheap plastic at Walmart and covered the rest of my car to protect against overspray. Worked like a champ and saved lots of time as compared to trying to tape everything up.

Good luck.