Painted The Brake Calipers!

[evans03c]

^^^
Need to hit the ends of the pistons with some black also.

 

[S.V.T.]

I assume you had to buy a seperate kit for the bracket in silver right? Also, did you paint the cobra letters or is it just the metal?

Looking into it for after the rainy season. Any opinions as to what color to go for my Mystichrome? I guess it also will depend on type of wheels I choose to go with. Chrome or black or black chrome.

i would like to know as well what you used for your bracket color (silver).

 

[SmokinCobra420]

I assume you had to buy a seperate kit for the bracket in silver right? Also, did you paint the cobra letters or is it just the metal?

Looking into it for after the rainy season. Any opinions as to what color to go for my Mystichrome? I guess it also will depend on type of wheels I choose to go with. Chrome or black or black chrome.

I have a mystichrome and this is what mine look like, also i have done the wheel mod to remove the paint from the inside of the wheels, to show more chrome, these pics are from autoramma

 

[SmokinCobra420]

what did you use to take the paint off of the "cobra" on the calipers?

Just use a nice sharpe razor, the paint should cut off very easily, just make a small slice and use the tip of the blade to pick it off the lettering.

 

[SmokinCobra420]

however, if you remove the caliper and with a fine wire wheel on a drill or grindwheel, you can remove the factory coating and since the calipers are aluminum, the can be sanded smooth and cleared from a polished alum look, i thought about doing that after i removed mine to buff the dirt and grim off before painting, i just decided that the black with polished lettering would match better to the center cap, which is black with chrome lettering. it brings the eye in from the center of the wheel to the caliper and they seem to flow better for the color scheme.

 

[M240Bravo]

I never thought of doing this. One more to do thing for the winter.

 

[2004 Culebra]

Great Stuff... This is just got moved up on the list of things to do...

 

[spleen04]

add this to the list of things i want to do and might never get too..haha

 

[MVD]

^^^
Need to hit the ends of the pistons with some black also.

What are you taking about?? The two pistons are down inside the caliper......you can't even see them.

 

[SpectorV]

when you are painting your calipers take the time to clean up your rotors. I had a set of 10th anniv calipers put on the front of my car a bit back and I took off the rotors and sanded down the area that they were rusting at (on the sides as well) and painted them. They look 1000x better. I did the rear last weekend as well and they turned out nice. You can do them while they are on the car its just easier to do it while they are not.

Here is a pic of how mine turned out

 

[.n0b.]

more stuff to do!

 

[fire_4_effect]

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[x NOODLES x]

3 Years to the day!

Well done.

 

[Instigator99]

Ha wow I was gonna make a suggestion then I realized that this is a super old thread. I'll make it anyways. For those that say black paint would blend in too much, or not look that great, you could always paint the COBRA lettering body color or something else. I just started working on my car and when I do my calipers I plan on painting the COBRA the same blue that I have in my engine bay.


-Eric