Painted Calipers & New Pads Install (8hrs)

[00firebird]

finally got to work on installing my pads myself .. waited a little too long, wasn't hard like i thought it would be. still took me a while to figure it all out though. figured since i had both ends of the car up on jackstands with the calipers off that i might as well go and paint them! i had purchased a duplicolor caliper painting kit about a year prior but never used it.

so i got it out and went to work. first i sprayed the cleaner then tried some dry sanding to get as much rust off as i could then went to painting. did a few layers of paint, then taped everything off (got a little crazy, took like 20 mins a side) then went with like 3-4 layers of clearcoat per corner. hopefully it holds up because what a load of work!

unfortunately as nice as these look now the rest of the car is still filthy including the wheels, and i didn't want to wash it yet and get everything wet until the pads were broken in and i was sure the paint could cure right as well.

also, i noticed inside the caliper pistons they had alot of rust and rusted pieces were cracking off and falling out.. it also left a nice imprint on the back of one of the pads. is this something that is normal? or is it from water entering the piston when it shouldn't of. also had some strange 'smear' marks on the rotors, tried wiping them off but it didn't go away.

well heres the pics, enjoy!

hawk ceramics.. good while they lasted


new ebc redstuff vs old.


test fit.. pointing out the strange spots, and the evil stock shocks with 127k


getting the calipers painted (by brush)


painting caliper bracket and rotors


getting ready for the clearcoat


finished product

[BP_Z28]

nice work looks good!

[SoulTerror]

I don't know if it's your camera or what but I don't think it looks all that good.

[ITSSLOW]

I don't know if it's your camera or what but I don't think it looks all that good.

I think it's because he used a paint on kit instead of a spray with a high gloss clear.

I think it's cool you finally used your kit and painted dem beeaches up!

[GETGONE]

I used the brush on duplicolor kit on my car and it doesn't look as rough as that does. My paint was very thin and runny. It was actually hard to get it to stick and I had to do about 3 coats to get good coverage. I didn't clear mine.

[00firebird]

well paint sat on the shelf for a year so i dunno if that was the problem. the camera flash makes the 'orange-peel' look show up alot worse than in person. clearcoat was duplicolor spray can

[GETGONE]

Any pics before you sprayed the clear on it? Just wonder if that's why it looks so orange-peely. You should do the spindle too! Mine was too ugly to leave as it was when I was getting my car ready for Autorama so I painted the spindle up with the same caliper paint.

[00firebird]

i believe the 4th didnt have clear yet.. and the 5th doesn't because i didnt wanna spray clear on the rotors. the clear just made it shine nicer instead of looking a little more dull/dried out

[s.reef]

Looks fine to me...i would probably spray paint the pad so it matches the caliper.

[thursday12889]

looks better than mine