Painting Brakes

[Ezekiel86]

Hey Everyone !

As everyone I have a wish list..brake upgrade... 483 turbo ..174 Nos Bottles you know the drill hahahahaha

Cant afford the upgrade atm but really would like to know if anyone has painted da stags brakes?

I have painted lots of sets b4...but my question is with the S2 Stagea Front Brakes the Nissan word is 100% Flat so If i Paint I cant just rub back etc etc...

So what can I Do to get around this...anyone done this B4? was thinking of getting a sticker made same size ..stick over and paint or what ever I need to do but serious FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK guys rock my sock with good ideas all the time...wat can I do...

More then keen to get the paint tom morning and start it tom

Bayside Blue S2 Stagea,

nice hight,

Rays volk racing F-zero challenger 18s 26835R18 Rear with The Blue Highlights behide..* Pretty Much same as car

Would would your guys paint them...

Blue with White Nissan letters....

Red with White Nissan letters.....

Would Love thought ..Ideas,,,comments...anything..

Keen as to do it tomorrow to try and tidy it up

Cheers everyone !!

[JiN_MaN]

100% Flat so If i Paint I cant just rub back

Yep, Paint and then either with a flat head screw driver or some sand paper you can scratch the 'NISSAN" back to silver

[Dohmar]

Yep, Paint and then either with a flat head screw driver or some sand paper you can scratch the 'NISSAN" back to silver

What he said. get the calipers sandblasted and powdercoated, replace the seals and use on 80-120 grit wet/dry to sand the letters back

-D

[Ezekiel86]

I have done that b4 but the letters are flat so once i paint over the whole cal i wont be able to see the Nissan word again...its Flat..paint on paint...

Thats what I was saying about the stickers getting made or somthing ...????

[Shazza24]

I have done that b4 but the letters are flat so once i paint over the whole cal i wont be able to see the Nissan word again...its Flat..paint on paint...

Thats what I was saying about the stickers getting made or somthing ...????

I guess you will have to put masking tape over it and cut the letters out using a scapel or stanley knife, etc. Same as if you were doing body work prep on a car, any pro spray painters out there with tips is probably who you wanted to ask.

Jin_Man and Dohmar from my experience scratching with a screw driver or sand paper still leaves problems eventually, the OP is after a pro finish. No offense intended.

Edited March 1, 2011 by Shazza24

[typevu]

Would would your guys paint them...

Blue with White Nissan letters....

Red with White Nissan letters.....

Would Love thought ..Ideas,,,comments...anything..

red is too cheesed out

blue COULD work as it'll go with the blue bits on your wheels but then it could be an overload of blue due to the car being blue too

[Dohmar]

I guess you will have to put masking tape over it and cut the letters out using a scapel or stanley knife, etc. Same as if you were doing body work prep on a car, any pro spray painters out there with tips is probably who you wanted to ask.

Jin_Man and Dohmar from my experience scratching with a screw driver or sand paper still leaves problems eventually, the OP is after a pro finish. No offense intended.

Sandpaper is what pros use... you start on a coarse grain and work it to a smoother grit. If you go over it once just to scrape the paint away without polishing the bare metal then it'd look naff.

The alternative is to paint the entire caliper and buy decals from nissan or use a spray paint stencil

-D

Edit - heres my example with the sandpaper method

[jrm]

I've been humming and harring about painting my calipers for about three months now.... Silver R34 GT-T, with factory silver rims, factory black calipers right now (with silver embossed writing)...

I've just about decided on gold with red nissan, but I'm totally undecided. Every option seems uber-ghey. Maybe I should just leave them alone

[Messiah]

blue with silver nissan would look good on a silver car if you ask me.

[jrm]

blue with silver nissan would look good on a silver car if you ask me.

Have seen that; it looked incredibly ghey. I also contemplated silver with black writing, but it's a little too subtle for my tastes (and yet red is way too bling/out-there). I'm doomed to failure on this, I think - I suspect I'll just end up not doing anything. Fail.

[Messiah]

not talking bright fricking blue... more a silver blue.. so it stands out just a little form the paint of the car.

Silver and black does look the goods tho...

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/topic/308588-installed-the-370zg37-akebono-sports-brakes-kit-on-the-v35/

[Carbon 34]

mine are sprayed anodized blue with polished nissan logo, the letters are flat. but I dremelled off all the casting marks from the calipers too. a while back.

looks way smoother up close that way

RDA slotted rotors are done too. the hub and inside the slots/vanes too. goes with the blue lugnuts and valve stems on the white rims.

the easiest way is paint them... then use a small fine crosscut flat file. to run across the nissan logo. its very soft alloy so beware. then use some 240 grit wet paper. go on up to 400-600 wet and high temp clear coat the whole lot.

don't be fooled the anodized paint can take the high temps even off my ceramic compound brake pads , not discoulourations ever.

paint the bolts with ceramic matte black paint, looks a good .

cost about a day in time , don't rush it

and 60 bucks in paint, etc.

drive a little bit then apply the brakes to lightly bake them a few times. before hammering on them.

[Carbon 34]

damn double post

Edited March 3, 2011 by sapphiregraphics

[Carbon 34]

this was the first time I painted them, now even better, and the wheels aren't so dirty..lol

[Ezekiel86]

Got the Nissan stickers same size made and picked them up today...

when to autobarn etc...

VHT Is the only caliper paint I could find....

everyone thats done it b4 said no to exhaust paint etc because it needs the heat to bake it on..plus the caliper paint it ment to be harder paint for cleaning off brake dust off etc..

was going to bet a bayside blue match...but they only have dark blue ,red , yellow , black ,silver and gold...

the blue is wayyyyyy to dark...

was thinking red with white letters but even the red does not look that nice...

Gold and white letters? but how bright it the gold...?

never ending problems haha

the exhaust paint has better range but they reckon its alot softer and will need respraying after 12months coz the brake dust will pit into the paint.. where the VHT paint wont do that.

any Ideas or thoughs???

[ISC-Performance]

just wipe vasaline over the letters and spray the whole caliper, wipe the paint straight off the letters when its dry. Did this on my engine cover and worked A+

[Ezekiel86]

The letters are 100% flat on the caliper .. Not raised so you can do that! That's y I got the stickers made for the job!

Just stuck on colour choice on VHT caliper paint...

Any1 know of other caliper paint?

[Dohmar]

The letters are 100% flat on the caliper .. Not raised so you can do that! That's y I got the stickers made for the job!

Just stuck on colour choice on VHT caliper paint...

Any1 know of other caliper paint?

Personally I'd get them powdercoated (I got mine powdercoated red at wingfield powder coaters and sanded the logo back but the logo in my case was raised) with a black caliper with silver lettering - would be the best to compliment blue imho - tho depending on what powder you use it could be difficult to put a sticker on, ie krinkle black. One solution is to use the sticker as a template and make a stencil, then simply use an enamel spray paint directly on top of the powdercoating

-D

[Ezekiel86]

Anyone used VHT caliper red with primer? Bright or dull?

Cheers

[Ezekiel86]

Only hi temp primer local is VHT hi flame proof..

You have to cure it in 3 heat and cooling stages ..

Hence its make manifolds and exhaust so u can just ran it to do it..

But leaving the calipers on the car will make that real hard lol

Do I skip the primer stage? Will I still get the same pop from the colour??????

Seen people use normally metal primer buts it's not hi temp so I see it all going to shit !

Anyone used the VHT range no primer and gloss finish ?

Love to see pics..