I saw this on another forum, and i guess if your not ready for a big brake swap, at least you can make your stuff look good!

http://ultimatecarforum.com/smf/index.php?topic=27.0

I'm thinking about trying it

 

everybody has heard of this, and most of us have done this at one point on some car. that red paint is probably going to bleed and flake off, i know this from experience. also if you kids want to this this the right way, remove the caliper, remove brake pads, paint (with high temp paint, engine enamel, caliper paint), replace (with new) pads, reinstall caliper. Please try to refrain from using primary and secondary colors.

 

he said on the forum that hes done it the same way with a disc brake conversion on a 1970 challenger and its been fine 2 years running, paint hasnt come off yet

 

yes, i read the "article". and thats great the paint has been ok for 2 years on his challenger, the paint is about the same price, you can go ahead and take the chance.

 

the caliper paint at like schucks is not the same price buddy, try 15.99 starting vs. 4.99. I think the choice is a clear one, and that engine paint enamel causes more runs than a person with a cold. For a quick simple improvement, i just dont think you can beat it. And if its stood up to the task for two years running, thats good enough for me. I think the point the article is trying to make is that you dont need the $15.99 cans of paint, that with proper prep work you get the same results. And i bet 99 percent of car guys are going to do it the same way as in that article!

 

I think it's cheap the way he did it. I did mine few weeks ago, new pads, disks, rebuilt the calipers and removed the rust everywhere, the job is way better then just covering the wheel with paper. I did pay for a good primer and and good high temperature paint. It's all worth. PLEASE DON'T BE CHEAP TOWARD YOU 240's !!!

 

high temprature paint/engine enamel is no more than $5 a can

the only problem i have with the way the original article shows caliper painting is the whole leaving the calipers on, brake pads in, and just masking off everything else. that paint may or may not work, i personally would be wary of taking that chance.

do it right, do it like redpotatoes, see how nice they look? and thank you for not using a ricey *** color.

 

your right its not a ricey color, gold is straight chicano homez

 

just for the record i'm not saying there aren't better ways to go about it, just it was a quick easy improvement, and as long as the paint doesnt get on any of the moving parts there shouldnt be a problem. Now if he got paint on the rotors or pads you wont need to tell him what he did wrong because he'll figure it out when hes dead after his brakes fail. However, since as i said before 99 percent of the people dont need their calipers rebulit, and dont want to bleed their brakes (granted it takes 10 minutes and a buddy) this would prove a simple solution. Again i am not saying this is the best way to do it, only its a cheap, fast method that 90 percent already use, he just took pictures of it. Just for the record Brembo has been making their calipers red for along time, and their foundation is not in the "rice" industry end of things.

 

painting your calipers red to look like brembo or stoptech is rice.
painting your calipers light blue to look like endless is rice.
painting your calipers teal to look like project mu is rice.
getting a ebay CAI and paining it red and putting a AEM sticker on it is rice.
painting your radiator silver and putting "koyo" on it is rice
buying an intercooler from ebay and painting ARC on it is rice.

rice is making a part of your car look like it is something better than it really is, and usually backfires. only making you look like a fool to people who really know. and besides, most people would agree that painting your calipers a primary or secondary color, such as, but is not limited to: red, yellow, blue, green, purple, orange just does not look good. there are a few exceptions such as when you match the calipers with the color of your car, which is not as bad but still ugly. there are plenty of alternatives which look a lot better such as black, polished, bronze, gold, silver. but hey, its your car, who cares what i think, beauty is in the eye of the beholer.

 

most of what you said is true... but what if i were to paint my calipers red because... oh lets say... cuz i LIKE red? is that rice? just because it looks "like" brembo's calipers does that mean im trying to imitate it? Now putting company logos on parts obviously not from that company is first degree rice. OR painting your calipers red in an attempt to imitate brembo... hell it could be worse, like those poor kids with civics that have rear drum brakes who get those things you put between the rim and hub to make it look like you have disc brakes...

 

i painted mine black. Looks pretty badass. Check out my car domain for pix. I got the caliper paint for like $4 the whole kit

 

yea my statement was a opinion, i just think red looks rice, but hey im not god, whatever works for you, its just my biased opinion that bright primary colors just dont look good on stock calipers, my fault for trying to force you guys into the same opinion.

 

yeah I agree with LA_phantom, I painted my calipers red because I like red, I dont think it is rice at all, now supose I put a brombo sticker on them then, well that would be gay and ricey, but if you like the color then put it.

 

THANK YOU!!! Exactly!!! I wasnt saying "he made them look like brembo brakes so thats not ricey"

All i said was that red is not associated with rice by default (white is associated with rice... white rice?? ), i was just using brembo as an example, that they make brakes that are red, and i dont concider brembo products ricey, so therefore just because a brake component is red, the brakes shouldnt bo concidered ricey either. And you shouldnt jump to the conclusion "this guy is a ricer hes trying to make them look like brembos..." Some people like the looks of red brakes, now because i dont see a makeshift brembo decal on there, i am going to assume that this guy likes red aswell. And furthermore, the car isnt painted yet either obviously judging by those pictures, so perhaps there is a chance he is painting the car red, or black, or some color that would go well with the brakes. People are going to paint their cars the way they want them painted, WHY? because they build their cars for themselves...