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just fyi ppl metal cast does not come in gold. i emailed duplicolor and i was told that. looks like its vht for me :O (interestingly duplicolor have a vht advert in their webpage). craved man do you have any pics of your calipers?

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Thats kinda strange, cos I have a can of Metalcast Gold colour sitting in my garage ready to go onto the calipers!?

ok, my bad. Can says "orange" I feel pretty dumb right now, hopefully the calipers will look asian gold, cos thats what I want them to come out like.

let us know how it turns out man. post pictures. i had the idea of mixing the yellow and the orange to maybe get a gold. worked in photoshop but im not so sure bout real life tho :(

i really want the colour thats on the gtr's calipers buuuut i duno think nissan will make it easy for me.

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Does anyone know where i can get this MetalCast and ground Coat?..I've been asking a few Auto1 stores in Sydney and they never heard of it.

cheers,

Hey mate, I work in super cheap and we sell it, the ground cloat, blue red and purple. Can't remember what it goes for a can, but it's worth it, mate did the rocker covers on a VS motor, looks mint (for a commo).

went to supercheap today, and dupli-color dont make a paint in gloss black, which is a bit of a bummer. wonder if anyone knows of another paint thats heat tolerant and is gloss black. theres "satin black" in a brand called "septone". is that anygood?

any help would be awesome

Thats kinda strange, cos I have a can of Metalcast Gold colour sitting in my garage ready to go onto the calipers!?

Yeah they do a gold part number Mc 202. its actually classified yellow but it has a gold finish so i am told from the guys from holts.

So i have my calipers back to metal (check the N/A thread as i have pics in there) i am doing a brake conversion and i will be doing mine in the gold colour. Hope they come out good.

So u use prepsol, then use metalic silver basecoat then apply several coats of the duplicolour metalcast anodized colour.

cheers, hame :)

ADD it did not come up the best i just preped the calipers with masking tape and then proceeded to paint over with dupilcolour mc202 and the results were not as expected.

for pictures look at http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Pa...40#entry3591091

hamish

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so those pics you posted you just cleaned with prepsol then sprayed with the metalcast paint (no duplicolor silver undercoat?)

I'm about to spray mine soon but want a better result than that, by the looks of things you just sprayed the metalcast (mc202) onto bare metal (no undercoat/primer) and the paint hasn't stuck

JUST A TIP GUYS

I regularly paint my calipers as I like them nice and fresh, I dont use the anodisation system but just heatproof paint, The red in the anodisation is not as nice as just a paint job.. Personal Choice tho.

I know most of you are trying to paint your NISSAN sign another colour and truthfully it looks shocking.. People with R32s and R33s have ridges in the NISSAN sign to promote cooling.. This method may not work so well for you but you can scrape out the rest or just have a really neat design in the caliper.

When you paint them.. Allow the paint to become semi hard.. About 2 minutes should be nice on a 25-30 degree day.. Grab some masking tape and push your thumb into the non sticky side and use it to remove the paint off the nissan sign.. Press down hard and rip the tape back quick.. Large sections of paint will begin to display a super clean NISSAN SIGN.. R34 calipers will display it best.

Hope it helps some of you out.

so those pics you posted you just cleaned with prepsol then sprayed with the metalcast paint (no duplicolor silver undercoat?)

I'm about to spray mine soon but want a better result than that, by the looks of things you just sprayed the metalcast (mc202) onto bare metal (no undercoat/primer) and the paint hasn't stuck

that is exactly what i did, i took the calipers back to bare metal, as best i could using a variety of wet n dry sand paper then prepsoled them cleaning them up good then i sprayed over in mc202. please revert back to the link i gave above for a more recent picture the paint has fully dryed looks a bit better. :P but not as "gold" as i thought it was going to be...

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let us know how it turns out man. post pictures. i had the idea of mixing the yellow and the orange to maybe get a gold. worked in photoshop but im not so sure bout real life tho :D

i really want the colour thats on the gtr's calipers buuuut i duno think nissan will make it easy for me.

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Only a year later, but finally I have a few pics of my calipers. I did 2 reasonable layers of the orange Metalcast, then another 2, maybe 3 layers of the yellow to get the dirty asian gold I wanted. I am extremely please with how they came out. I sanded the logos back carefully and brush painted them red with some left over Duplicolor caliper paint in a tin. To finish everything off nicely, I polished the heads of the pad retaining bolts so the calipers look the biz, though there isn't a pic of this.

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hi just thought id share a few pics on the front calipers i painted today i used dupli-colour metal cast MC-100 Ground Coat

and MC-200 Red still got plenty paint left over for the rear set and a bit more cost $18.49c a can from supercheap auto if any one wants more pics let me know

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hi just thought id share a few pics on the front calipers i painted today i used dupli-colour metal cast MC-100 Ground Coat

and MC-200 Red still got plenty paint left over for the rear set and a bit more cost $18.49c a can from supercheap auto if any one wants more pics let me know

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wow the color is insane!!!! like a jelly, good job man!!

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