G2 Caliper Paint.

[DeanSweet]

The weather finally broke here in Good Ole Ohio to allow me to paint my calipers using the G2 Caliper Paint System. I will write up a 'How to:' here in the next week or so and submit to the Admins of this URL but here is a brief synopsis.
Steps:
Place car on Jack stands.
Remove Tires. Fronts will still rotate. Get a buddy to hold the brake?
Clean up calipers. I used a Dremel tool with soft brush wheel.
Spray off calipers using the G2 Supplied cleaner. Warning to those who do this over the driveway or painted garage floor. The stuff melts paint and bleaches concrete.
Start painting. The best tip I can recommend here is go out and buyt some decent quality edging paint brushes. I bought a 1/2 inch and 3/8th inch brush and they worked well. The brush included in the kit worked ok for fonal thick coat but to use it for the edging would of sucked. Apply first coat and the great part is that is states to wait 20 minutes for next coat? It took more than that to complete the next 3 calipers so all was good. I applied a generous 2nd coat with same artists brushes. waited a good 30 minutes then applied the 3rd and final thick coat with the supplied G2 brush.
It took approx. 3 hours to do this and I let the car set on stands all weekend.
I love how shiny they are now.

Here are some pictures.

 

[XavierMSP]

Lookin good

Once I get back to school, I think i am going to paint mine red as well. I always liked the black/red combo. The only thing that worries me is the color of the red. I like how yours look in the second pic with the wheel back on, looks like a deeper shade of red than the first pic (probably because of the flash or lighting on the first pic).

How much did it end up costing you? And by the way, i like your wheels.

Good job!

 

[DeanSweet]

Thanks.
The G2 paint cost $43 from http://www.wheelskin.com/
Wheels are 18" G-Racing Kirins - Hyper Black color.
The color is whitewashed by my camera. The red matches the red of the taillights really well.

 

[tigerbunch]

Looks awesome. Being patient really pays off. What is the offset of your wheels? Do they rub?

 

[REMillers]

Good job, put you don't need a friend to hold the brakes. Just loosen the lugs, jack up car, then finish removing lugs.

Gah just need time to be able and leave my car still for a day.

 

[MadBiker]

DeanSweet,
That looks really nice. Good job! I hear G2 makes pretty good caliper paint. Mine, I used elcheapo DuPont engine spray paint and will probably come off in several months lol.

BTW sorry to rain on your writeup but there's already a How-To:
http://www.protege5.com/vbb225/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3723

But your pic of the caliper is probably much better than the pics in the howto above. Thanks for sharing!! Cheers!

 

[DeanSweet]

MadBiker Thank you for the link but wholey cow, thats allot of extra work with taping off caliper?! That would of sucked big time if I had to do that. Actually I would of never done it then. The G2 is a brush on paint that makes it so you don't have to tape off. Just be slow about painting. As the paint dries it actually gets easier to apply the paint. After 2 hours the paint started to thicken in the can. 4 hours it was like pancake batter. I messed with the brushes after they dried and they are freaking hard as metal now. Amazing paint.

TigerPunch - the Offset is +45. No they don't rub at all turning bumpstop-to-stop.

REMillers - I would have had to loosen both sides or jacked up each side individually and place stand on each corner. I was always told to lift the car by its center and place both stands underneath for fear of 'pushin' the other stand over? so to loosen both sides at same time made me uncomfortable. But it would have worked too. I am looking into buying a rollaround garage frame floor lift just for my swapping rims and such times.
Thanks for hte input.

Regards

 

[REMillers]

Yep I normally lift the car by its center then placing jack stands under it. But before I generally just give the lugs one or two good solid loosen turns. The wheels are still secure in place and once up just a few more turns and they off.

Anyway works its nothing important on how they are taken off.

And I would love!! to have a lift

btw you should take the left over paint and see how quickly it burns through paint/plastic

 

[azeli73]

set of eibach springs would make the stance more appealing.

Are those 18x7 or 7.5 wheels?

I used the folia tec caliper paint myself and I agree that using a brush is so much easier.

 

[DeanSweet]

18X7.5 +45 5-114.3

www.wheel1.com
search for wheels by brand.
Click on G-Racing. 1st ones are the Kirins.
I talked to my buddy Tom at the Wheel Source and he states a rim/tire package can be had for $1250.00 with tires being the Hankook Ventus K-102 Sport. I don't know if that is a decent deal or not. The rims look better in person. Almost a Mystic type paint. Looks darker at different angles.

azeli73 - Eibachs are already in the works. I hope they are still red in color to match the calipers?

Regards.

 

[azeli73]

well the set I have are black....sorry to say....No big deal, you can't see them unless you're under the car....

 

[sxates]

I used some spray on paint when I painted mine about a year and a half ago, and I have a small chip on one caliper. Other than that they still look good, especially after cleaning them (which is a pain so I don't do it much )

 

[rednecks_r_us]

I used the DUPONT high temp annodized paint from Checker Auto.

Yes its a spray paint and I had to tape the hell out of the wheel wells.

The annodized paint matches my laser blue almost perfectley.

It cost me $10.00 for the paint & primer.

With the left over paint I now have annodized brackets for my K&N intake, annodized lug nuts, annodized radiater cap, annodized bracket for my overflow tank and my oil cap is painted.

pictures

 

[spazspike]

You do realize that spray painting what you did is not annodizing, right? Annodizing is a process that makes the color become the aluminum, not a coat/layer ontop of it. It's a chemical process...

 

[rednecks_r_us]

Yea I know, but this way is cheaper and has lasted over 4 months with out fading or chipping.

A friend of mine works at Checker auto and wanted to see how this new annodized paint looked. So I got his employee discount and love the way it turned out.

It does look better in person than on my web page. I need to clean my camera badly.

Something about off road trips in my DODGE and lots of dust = a dirty camera.