Is there a diy guide for it anywhere, or for the people that have done it, what do you recommend as far as doing this project.

Thanks,

Ian

 

get some wire brushes and just scrub the hell out of the calipers, use some wheel cleaner. once you get them clean, spray them with brake cleaner, then paint them however you like.

 

I put my car up on a lift; removed all four wheels; scrubbed the crap out of the calipers with large AND small wire brushes, brake cleaner,cloth rags, and carb cleaner; loosened the calipers one by one and hand painted them with brake caliper paint (I used This Kit). If you loosen the calipers and get them off the rotors, you can get in all the small spots so it looks real good. Just do all the edges and hard spots, then remount the caliper (don't have to torque everything, just enough to hold it on) and then paint all the big areas with the caliper on.

Then move to the other calipers. Fyi, the paint in that kit, it takes about 1½ hours before its dry enough to torque bolts and drive on them. I wouldn't joyride or anything, but its okay to drive home or to work and whatnot. If you go with Decals on the caliper, wait at least 24-36 hours before applying the decals.

 

I used a fine sandpaper (pick your own grit ) to lightly take off a coat on the calipers then proceeded to paint.

 

Did you all useprimer? How bout a special type of paint?

 

use a high temp engine enamel.. or better yet.. go to Pep Boys and buy the brake caliper paint kit. It includes everything you need besides the wire brushes.

 

Here ya go:

http://audizine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16713a nice write up on painting calipers. Found on

http://www.audidiy.com

 

I bought wilwoods

 

Thanks to you all for the suggestions! I definitely need to do this mod once I get the new rims. Bout how much do the painting kits run?

 

Thirty bones