How to: Anodize your brake calipers

[cowie165]

I've used spray on pain stripper.

Don't let it touch your skin it rips it off..

And then you drip some brake fluid onto the raw skin for that extra tickle.. :sorcerer:

It sucks and hurts a lot.

[Cubes]

And then you drip some brake fluid onto the raw skin for that extra tickle.. :sorcerer:

It sucks and hurts a lot.

lol

[drewr33]

Hey, Im thinking about painting mine. Tho not sure on the colour.

My car is white with gold/ silver edge rims.

What colour would look the best?

[Nozila]

drewr33, im trying to decide myself as well. atm i have red vht on my white 'line atm. although my rims are shadow chrome. does this paint come in bronze? i think of the 350z brembo style - bronze calipers with black logo. or else, black calipers with white logo. what you guys thinks?

[Nightcrawler]

let me know what colour you decide Duc - I am keen to repaint my R34 and S15 calipers - we could have a painting mod party at my place

I am also leaning toward bronze/gold with black or red writing ala Brembos

[Nozila]

been thinking of repainting my calipers for ages Andrew. been leaning towards black but bronze would be nice - if that color is avaliable. yes ala brembo style are subtle but at the same time noticeable. thinking of this saturday pending on where they sell it and the weather.

[Basti]

i cant see any of the older pics, can some one please post them up? also my car is black and im lookin at shadow chrome 4 the rims. do duplicolour make a gold metalcast? would it look good?

[cowie165]

Gold would look very nice. I'm washing my car this arvo and I'll take a few pics (of the duplicolor red calipers) afterwards for you.

[Whyallapunk]

Pics cowie?

[cowie165]

Sorry about the wait.

I highly recommend doing your caliper overhaul at the same time. Saves time, hassle and $$

[Nightcrawler]

boy there must be a lot of those Circlar wheels around - I have them and I know of at least 3 other guys with in just Adelaide .... FYI if you don't get yours taken back to bare metal, rust-proofed and repainted soon they will degrade beyond repair - a mate from ROH Wheels did mine for me, and said mine were months away from rust disintegration on the welds. I did dome "S" Skyline stickers to ove rthe centres and I think they look good

[cowie165]

Howdy nightcrawler, yep I remember when you told me that about twelve months ago! Somehow having the wheels NDI'd kept falling to the bottom of the 'ways to spend $$ on the Nissan' list. Best look into that again before it bites me on the ass. Cheers! Mark

[Nightcrawler]

no worries buddy - just trying to spread the love .... plus I would hate you to be driving down the road and one of your wheels takes off past you because the weld broke

[digitobi]

hey cowie, nice work on the calipers. my friend did his in the blue and they look damn nice. sorry to be a pain, but can you get some pics of the calipers when they are dry and in the sunlight? im trying to see how the red metalcast looks

cheers mate

[cowie165]

I'll see what I can do

[foznice]

I want to paint my calipers black, with the nissan writing in white, grey or just sand them back down to metal. I'm trying to go with what Mark's done, and have a neat, stock-not-over-the-top look,

The only problem is, there is no METALCAST in black. I was thinking of getting the primer (this is the shiny bit isn't it?) and then finding some kind of black paint to go over top.. or will the black paint just block it out... what do you guys think?

[Craved]

black will just cover whats below it ..

Black is black .. aslong as you use a gloss one, or one thats covered with a clear coat

[foznice]

cheers Chris. So what paint do you reccomend exactly?.. surely not VHT............................

[Flash89]

how do you get the break fulid out of the caliper??

[Ronin 09]

compressed air?