Painting Your Brake Calipers

[Bass Junky]

You don't need too. I did becuase I took my calipers off to change pads.

I didn't spray the back of the rears though as they stayed on.

[Flash89]

so was the whole caliper painted or just most of the visible parts??

[MacGuyver]

That looks awesome Catkicker, what sort of paint was that? I never removed my calipers, just used lots of newspaper and masking tape. But I did cover all the visible areas of the caliper with paint.

[cowie165]

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.

[Beer Baron]

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.

[d00dz]

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.

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

[Eug]

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.

[mteched]

what took me only 1 hr to paint all 4 calipers lol.... the jacking up the car took the longest!

[Ultimategtr]

ah yep im thinking of doing my calipers soon lol. Thinking ill go with red.

[markimak]

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..

[Bass Junky]

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

[Flash89]

is there a way you can take the whole caliper off the car so you can paint the calipers on their own

[Basti]

its written out two posts up

[cruzin33]

I took my cailipers of to paint, iv painted over the nissan logo as i was going to sand it back but now i wana paint it white but looks like it will be a head f**k any one done this?

[Bass Junky]

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.

[blinko]

yeh i did mine the other week.. they look good... took a while but.

[Flash89]

well what i meant is taking the caliper complete off the car. or has that been covered and i just cant read properly

hehe

[DECIM8]

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

[Trust33]

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.

[Trust33]

they b coming just waiting for the time to take the after shots.too l8 atm..