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E_Lu-SHuN, I had to buy a breaker bar just to undo them, but it was well worthwhile.

Shmiddy, Will try and take some pics. I did mine with the Silver Base coat, then just did the NISSAN in blue, keeping with the look of my rims etc.

Will try and post some pics up.

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Did my front pair in the Red today and it looks awesome!

It will be less time consuming to take the calipers off and bleed the system after, rather than trying to cover/tape up everything else. Although the end result will not look much different from the outside.

I used wheel bearing grease applied with an ear bud to the NISSAN logo and the paint came straight off afterwards.

It is recommended that you use the adhesion promoter (CP199) before the ground cote. That is if you can find it! and if you do find somewhere that sells it in SYD please let me know.

any1 find a well known shop that actualy stocks this paint?

i cant find anywhere..

No offence, but why don't you use some initative and call the paint supplier. I posted a link to their details a few posts up. They should be able to tell you who regularly stocks their paint in your area.

A tip for those who just cant be assed paying for an extra can of paint then painting "NISSAN" seperately...

This will only work well on a few colors (red mainly) but heres what I did:

Painted the whole caliper, right over the NISSAN logo....whole thing.

Then once dried, I simply got out some sandpaper and took off the paint over the NISSAN logo. As its raised its very easy to do and came out pretty well for something that cost me $0.

Ends up being a shiny silver if your sandpaper is a decent grit. Time will tell if it stays that way but whats to stop you from giving it a quick once over if it fades! :D

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Seems Dupli.Color have a "Caliper Kit" now, brush on without removing the calipers, here 'tis:

http://www.duplicolor.com/products/caliper.html

I was more interested in their wheel coatings, but not sure if it's suitable for a colour change (stock R32's to white), or just dressing up existing colours.

http://www.duplicolor.com/products/wheel.html

Seems Dupli.Color have a "Caliper Kit" now, brush on without removing the calipers, here 'tis:

http://www.duplicolor.com/products/caliper.html

I was more interested in their wheel coatings, but not sure if it's suitable for a colour change (stock R32's to white), or just dressing up existing colours.

http://www.duplicolor.com/products/wheel.html

You may not be able to get some of the "new" paints they have on the web site as it is a US site and some of the paints dont come over here or dont come over for sometime(weeks,months,years?)

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