I'm guessing I'm not the only one here who's painted there calipers before. In no way do I claim to be an expert on this, just did a bunch of reading online and asked around before deciding on everything, and figured I'd share what I did.

My front calipers were looking pretty rough. So decided to paint them. After reading around, asking around, I decided to just use regular rustoleum spray paint. Here's the before pic:


For prep, I unloaded a can of brake cleaner on them to get them clean. Then took a wire wheel to them. Then sprayed more brake cleaner on them. Here's what they looked like all said and done:


Then using tape, newspaper, whatever I could find, I masked off the areas I didn't want to get paint on. Then hung them so they were ready to paint


Applied 3 coats of gloss black rustoleum, each coat within about an hour of each other.


I let the last coat dry outside and with a fan on it for about 5 hours, then applied these decals I bought off ebay.



Last thing was I applied 5 very light coats of rustoleum clear over them. Let dry overnight, reinstalled, and that's it. Looks much better. Time will tell how they hold up I suppose.

 

Brandon, it looks pretty good! Thx for sharing!

 

They do look good. What made you paint them black? Not to show dirt so much or ????

I will be doing this this week!!!

 

Looks good! I used VHT paint, but i don't like it very much. I'm thinking about giving that G2 caliper paint a try.

 

I like the car to just be clean and subtle looking, not too flashy, so I didn't want to do typical bright red or anything. So I looked at pics online and saw someone else that did this same paint/decal color and I liked it, so just copied them.

And yes hopefully they won't look as dirty. I had red Cobra brakes on my last car, and they always looked dirty/dusty.

 

It looks real good. Makes me think now though if I could make the supra tt calipers or ls400 fit on my stock wheel. Didn't think I could :/ haha

 

Way better!