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Well it's time to repaint the calipers. The first mistake I made was only putting on one coat. So I wanna do it right this time. Do I have to sand off the old paint? What kind of sandpaper do i need if I do? Do I have to primer? How long should I wait till applying a second coat of paint?

 

[TwistedBalt]

What i did on mine is use a high build primer filler then 4 coats of paint 10 min in between each coat and then 4 coats of clear coat 10 min in between each coat. I didnt sand. Just scraped off old paint with a paint scraper and then used alcohol to clean it.

 

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Clear? hmm I might have to buy then. I have the brush on caliper paint.

 

[TwistedBalt]

Wow i never even heard of brush on caliper paint Hmm

 

[Geyser737]

What i did on mine is use a high build primer filler then 4 coats of paint 10 min in between each coat and then 4 coats of clear coat 10 min in between each coat. I didnt sand. Just scraped off old paint with a paint scraper and then used alcohol to clean it.

do you need to be careful not to gt paint in the mechanism of the caliper so performance isnt affected or can you just spray and pray?

 

[TwistedBalt]

I taped off the best i could and put paper towels in cracks and sprayed. I havnt had any issues with my brakes at all and ive been doing that for a while now

 

[bchongarski]

I will just buy brembo covers and put it on

 

[TwistedBalt]

Nice. I will do that in the future then get rid of my drums and put rotors back there

 

[Geyser737]

I will just buy brembo covers and put it on

covers? ive never heard of covers....

 

[SHADWFX]

I will just buy brembo covers and put it on

covers? ive never heard of covers....

yeah i hadn't heard of covers either so I looked them up and found this board - kinda gives some info:
Brembo caliper covers... any good? - AcuraZine Community

 

[FearlessZero]

Damn, thats blue! I don't think they're going to get any more blue than they already are. Imagine doing the same coat process with red, black, or silver. O_O

 

[Geyser737]

yeah i hadn't heard of covers either so I looked them up and found this board - kinda gives some info:
Brembo caliper covers... any good? - AcuraZine Community

hey thanks dude. not too shabby

 

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that'd be rice

 

[slobalt]

The caliper paint kits at the auto places come as brush on..

 

[Chester]

like the color but u should have taped off more of the components so you wouldn t get that pain everywhere like on thestrut towers. I understand that no ones perfect but at least try to keep it as clean as you can

 

[IMADreamer]

You definitely need to do a better job at masking off then that. At the very least get a garbage bag and tap it up so that most of the components are covered. Then tape off any fitting and especially rubber gromets or covers. Also mask the rotors obviously.

The results are in the prep. Prep it right, sand, prime, paint, clear and the results will last a long time.

I for the life of me can't figure out why when people are trying to do a cosmetic upgrade they half ass it.

 

[TwistedBalt]

All of the extra spray that got everywhere is off. I cleaned it with acetone.

 

[Chester]

well thats good. I just taped mine off with shopping bags and didnt have anything to worry about.

 

[TwistedBalt]

nice you got pics?

 

[Geyser737]

everyone on that forum seemed to be totally wrecking the idea of caliper covers, lol. ill probably paint them. what kinda of paint is needed. some kind of high temperature metal paint?