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looking to paint my calipers but looking for other colours than the standard. red, black, blue, orange/yellow, aluminium.

google searched and found this on a ford site:

(How about silver? Or a dark metallic grey (eg meteorite)? It would look classy without being overly obvious. You do not need to paint brakes with special paint even though some will tell you that you need high temp paint - you don't. If you're brakes ever get that hot, then the paint peeling is the last thing you will need to worry about - stopping being the first thing that will be on your mind!

So you could go any colour in the Holts duplicolour paint can range. One large can will do all four calipers twice. A coat of alloy wheel clear coat will help keep them nice and clean - you could use normal clear coat, but the alloy wheel clear coat is supposed to be more resistant to brake dust stains etc.)

Anyone sprayed theres with other paints?

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looking to paint my calipers but looking for other colours than the standard.

google searched and found this on a ford site:

(How about silver? Or a dark metallic grey (eg meteorite)? It would look classy without being overly obvious. You do not need to paint brakes with special paint even though some will tell you that you need high temp paint - you don't. If you're brakes ever get that hot, then the paint peeling is the last thing you will need to worry about - stopping being the first thing that will be on your mind!

So you could go any colour in the Holts duplicolour paint can range. One large can will do all four calipers twice. A coat of alloy wheel clear coat will help keep them nice and clean - you could use normal clear coat, but the alloy wheel clear coat is supposed to be more resistant to brake dust stains etc.)

Anyone sprayed theres with other paints?

yeh i used the brake caliper paint in the septone range i think.. did a mates brakes.. it worked well..

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I used Holts Duplicolor over a year ago and they still look schmick. I'll see if I can sort a few pics this afternoon after work.

Try searching SAU for a thread called "painting your calipers" or something like that. It was a three pager from 2004/05 with plenty of pics too.

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dupicolor metalcast ....the red looks the goods!.....reflective look!

supercheap sells it!

I did mine in that stuff, Looks bloody awesome. I would've gone with the gold but they were sold out.

Did them in the same colour on my previous R33 & no peeling at all.

I used 3 coats of the septone aluminium brake caliper paint as a primer. 2-3 coats of the duplicolor stuff depending how dark you want the red to be.

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