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Another excellent caliper painting thread here:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...p;hl=duplicolor

The paint schmiddy suggests is absolutely brilliant. Avoid VHT like the plague and use what schmiddy says. :)

good guide, but my main suggestion would be do not do it with the callipers on the car, and definately not with the wheels on the car. no matter how carefull you are there will be overspray. plus you really dont want to be painting them with pads and rotors, suspension etc all around. spend a little extra time and remove the calipers. :ninja:

good guide, but my main suggestion would be do not do it with the callipers on the car, and definately not with the wheels on the car. no matter how carefull you are there will be overspray. plus you really dont want to be painting them with pads and rotors, suspension etc all around. spend a little extra time and remove the calipers. :D

How would one remove the calipers? Hard? Easy? Someone (if they have time) post up a tut on caliper removing? Thanks!

How would one remove the calipers? Hard? Easy? Someone (if they have time) post up a tut on caliper removing? Thanks!

takes 5minutes...

- remove rims

- pull out wire clips from caliper

- remove 1 pin

- remove backing plate (prevents it flicking out)

- remove 2nd pin

- remove pads and shim plates

- undo 17mm (i think) nuts around the back.

- banjo bolts for brake line (make sure to have an empty bottle nearby to put the bolt in.

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to remove calipers ther are two 17mm bolts on the back us a 1/2 inch breaker with small extention crack it then use ur ratchet to take off. dont let the caliper swing on the brake hose..

the front su can turn the hub. get a rattlegun in ther and do it that way.. well u can on toyotas.. :(

i reckomend a die grinder to etch out NISSAN after u painted over it.. :(

Better than a die grinder is a piece of wet and dry and a cork block.

Just rub the paint back until you get a nice shiney "nissan"

But be careful, one touch of your nice fresh paint will piss you right off :D

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Yep,

Get yourself some Wet and Dry, quite fine grade.

Also, get cork or wooden block.

Wrap wet and dry around the wooden block and carefully sand back the paint.

This is exactly how I did it to mine. The Nissan come up looking brushed and it really makes the calipers look great.

i just removed wheel .. covered hub in news paper and wheel arches and side of car and sprayed in my garage with no wind ..

make sure u tape correctly and make sure you get all the paint off if you didnt mask the disc could smell funny or cause irregular braking which you obviously dont want

I used a wire brush on a drill.Went right back to bare metal.

The paint was great and still is quite good.the rears are pretty much as anodised red as they were when they were first done.though the fronts are faded due to track days and instead of being anodised red they have faded slightly.but still resemble the red colour.i will post up before and now shots tomorrow.

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