I finally got My JCW brakes installed today and want to get the rear brake assembly painted to match. Which brake caliper paint will be the closest match to the JCW red. Yes, in the real world who really cares but I am **** about these trivial details.






NICE

 

YES, done that on my Volvo, over 2 years and the gold color calipers still look great!

 

The most important part of car styling is being that ****.....dont be ashamed, embrace it

 

If you decide to use the G2 paint - or any other paint that does not use a spray can - and can't find the color you want .... then you can mix colors to get just the color you want; eg. red + yellow = orange.

 

I do not know about any of you guys, but I went to clean my car today and noticed when cleaning the wheels, that my caliper are starting to chip. One side showing the most. I am using the duplicolor brake caliper paint. When I went to paint the calipers I made sure I clean them really well. The car only had about 4000 miles total. Not sure what is going on. I wish I can touch them up, but the weather is starting to change and it is getting cold here in NJ. Temp. is around 50. Hmmm, kind of sucks that I have to wait until next spring to fix up the calipers. I am thinking of going with a BBK anyway. Will have to see. What do you guys do to repaint your calipers? What do you use to clean them? I really have those oem brake bads! They dust like crazy!

Garrett

 

Nah, we just like the look.....a personal thing....but it does look good with the drilled rotors...

 

Thanks for the info! I went ahead and used the hi-temp paint b/c/ I wanted orange. Been about 1,000 miles since, and they are OK.

 

I finally did mine and thought I would post a few photos. I used the G2 kit and it went on really well. It will look better with my new white Ro-Ja LT5s. I'm still waiting on tires.

 

Nice job MINI Monkey! They look almost too perfect - did you totally remove them to paint, or did you paint them in-place? I've been wanting to do this to both of our MINIs.

 

Is it also a good idea since the wheel is off to paint the wheel hub where the rust shows? I may be doing all of this over Christmas break.

 

I've painted calipers on two different cars. Never masked anything, never disassembled, just took my time, and they turned out great.

Too bad i don't get to see either of the cars i painted anymore.

Thinking about doing my mini's next, but i want something other than the typical red or yellow. Yellow would look good with LY, but i'm thinking purple or something

 

Mini Monkey...

those look great.

WIth the G2 kit, is there enough pain to do two minis?

thanks!

-jac

 

Yep!

 

Thanks for the compliments.

I left the calipers on and just masked them off well. I talked with the lady at G2 and she said it is OK to mix half the paint and half the activator. That would work great for doing two cars. You have between 4 and 6 hours to work with the paint. Afterwards the car has to sit for 24 hours before being driven. I had a little under half a can left that just went to waste. Thanks again Dominicminicoopers for all the tips.

 

Thanks guys....i'll be ordering my Mini soon, and i think red will look great with my RG and my wife's CR/B.

-jac

 

I don't know about the others ... but I used the G2 kit ($50) on my Z3, it stood up to regular track days where the brakes were smokin' hot.

 

That's great to hear.