Painted Caliper Pics!

[Kansei]

i planned on painting my calipers and drums red, but i see that you all dont agree with painting the drums. is that ricey? ive seen someone with a saturn do it. that silver does look nice .i may reconsider.

just do the drums flat black or mayyybe gloss black.

 

[jeg0024]

Yeah, I like mine too but I may go with the black, anything is better than rusted tho.

 

[red95_240sx]

i like that silver i might go trade in my red if they let me. i sure wanted the red to match the color of my car tho.

 

[Tengo]

i like that silver i might go trade in my red if they let me. i sure wanted the red to match the color of my car tho.

dude if you like the red paint then use it, its your car, not anyone elses on this forum, your car your taste.

 

[red95_240sx]

i was already unsure about painting the drums red. the silver also makes the brakes look alot better.

 

[Togan]

guys i need help painting my calipers red like how jeg did but im afraid what if i get paint somewhere wrong and the brakes wont function anymore!!?(ughdance)

check out how this guy did it, real clean job.. very neat work.. i need something like this, so i cant dare do it i only have one car and i need it to get around *knocks on wood*

I decided today to paint my calipers.

I bought a Duplicolor Blue kit a while back and it's quite nice. It comes with a caliper cleaner, tape, blue paint, paintbrush and a paint stir stick. Even though the can of paint looks small, it's plenty. I still have over half a can after I did 3 coats of paint on my calipers.

I also went and bought some VHT Flame Proof clear coating and of course the MAZDA caliper stickers.

I used a floor jack, the scissor jack, and stands so I could do two tires at a time.

So here's how it looked like before

Now I decided to mask the surrounding body area, since I was going to be spraying this caliper cleaner now and the clear coating later.

Now with the spray, I used a toothbrush to really get into it to scrub off anything I could. Of course, some of the really old stuff wouldn't come off, but that's okay.

So after the caliper was cleaned, I started to paint. By doing two calipers at a time, I could put one coat on one of the calipers and then go to the other caliper to paint. Once that one was done, I could head back to the original caliper to add the next coat. It takes around 15 min for a coat of paint to dry, so it worked out pretty good. So once that was done, I did a bit more masking for the clear coating.

Now after the clear coat, I allowed it to dry for around 30min. Just to make sure, I touched the area I was gonna place the sticker on and it was dry. So here it is with the sticker on.

Now some of you may have seen me ask if I should clear coat over the sticker. In theory, it sounded great to add protection to the sticker. Well, I sprayed it on............and the blue paint starting to run onto the sticker!! AGGGGH

With some Q-tips and using the paint running properties of the clear coat (alas I had no paint thinner), I sprayed the Q-Tip heads with clear coat and used it to clean off the blue paint from the sticker. It didn't look as great as it did, but I didn't want to mess it up anymore!

Well here's some pics of the front and back calipers after they are done

FRONT

BACK

I really like how the blue turned out and it was just like I wanted. I think blue looks great with Titanium Grey.
What do you guys think?

 

[Tengo]

guys i need help painting my calipers red like how jeg did but im afraid what if i get paint somewhere wrong and the brakes wont function anymore!!?(ughdance)

check out how this guy did it, real clean job.. very neat work.. i need something like this, so i cant dare do it i only have one car and i need it to get around *knocks on wood*

that guy you quoted isnt a memebr here? i tryed pming him, but i love the job he did, i wonder where he got those mazda stickers?

 

[Togan]

I know ehh!! i pmed him immediately asking for his help, i loved the job he did too very clean job.. no he's a member in the bcmazda3.com forum

that guy you quoted isnt a memebr here? i tryed pming him, but i love the job he did, i wonder where he got those mazda stickers?

 

[jeg0024]

Im only gonna say this once but good luck to you if you decide to go the spray paint route.

 

[Togan]

Im only gonna say this once but good luck to you if you decide to go the spray paint route.

really? how many ways are there?

 

[StealthWyvern]

really? how many ways are there?

paint brush

 

[jeg0024]

paint brush

Perferably

 

[Demoniam]

I was going to do my capilers in orange (classic dark orange, not bright or neon), sometime after the holidays. The only extreme high heat paint that I've seen in orange is in a spray can. Anyone know where I might find some of the brush-on paint in orange?

 

[jeg0024]

I was going to do my capilers in orange (classic dark orange, not bright or neon), sometime after the holidays. The only extreme high heat paint that I've seen in orange is in a spray can. Anyone know where I might find some of the brush-on paint in orange?

Hmmm, well ive seen red, blue, and silver in the brush on...PM iLisa and ask her because she did hers orange.

 

[Togan]

paint brush

i know i know the duplicolor does come with one small one..

 

[jeg0024]

small one? lol

 

[mickeyreategui]

painted my front with brake job: http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?t=123657880

 

[marshall-BJ-VE]

I'm awaiting my duplicolor red paint caliper kit, I guess no problem I should get with it, because I don't really wanted to paint the calipers using a spray can. After finish the job I'll post some pics too.

 

[mickeyreategui]

with can or brush, still mask off any thing that you dont want to get paint on!!! (brake pad, rotor, piston, etc....)

 

[jeg0024]

with can or brush, still mask off any thing that you dont want to get paint on!!! (brake pad, rotor, piston, etc....)

Yeah, its still a lot less taping to do than with the spray for sure. I think I only used 5 pieces of tape per caliper, and 3 were on the pads.