I painted my Calipers last weekend. I ordered the stuff from Fast Mini

http://www.fastmini.net/brcapakit.html


What do you think?

 

Nice job looks great with your rims.

 

Looks as nice as mine, Mike!

 

Very nice...mike i gotta say....i lot of your posts, and stuff your doing, is exactly what i plan to do or have done....weird...haha....

you just take the wheel off to paint?

 

Im thinking of yellow, or red....cant decide...opinions? Right now i just have the regular sport wheels on, but plan to get them powder coated black in a month or 2 because i cant get new wheels right now.

 

Looks good Mike, now you just have lower that thing.
M

 

The painted calipers look GREAT With the wheels I have ordered (PIAA SportMesh in hyper black) I'm thinking silver because when the car is moving it will stand out pretty well too and its different. The other color I like is the color on the Nissan 350Z and STi's, that orange/gold/yellow is AWESOME!

 

SWEET -- looks good!!!!
Blake

 

Thlaxx,

Thanks, yeah its funny, but go for it.

I like the yellow too, however keep in mind that if brake dust builds up on them the yellow really turns.

I like the red (obviously), depends on the color of your car. Gold may not look too bad in the right situations.


Good luck!

 

How about painting the hat on the rotor? Even though on some wheels you can't really see it, don't you wanna know that its painted too, just a thought

 

Here are some shots of my R56 calipers painted. I am also painting the hats and rotor edges in black This is a great 1st mod

 

Looks great, everybody!

--Dan
Mach V
FastMINI.net

 

I might have to go with red

 

PAITING THE CALIPERS IS A MUST , I DID IT 1ST WEEKEND I HAD THE CAR,LOOKS GOOD.

 

yea im gonna go with red....they'll look great with my Black OZ ultraleggeras ill be getting at the end of the summer!

 

Just did this to Ruska...

looks VERY cherry...now I just gotta powdercoat those S-Lites!

 

So you don't even remove the caliper to paint it? Weird.

 

Did you guys do one wheel at a time or did you jack up the front, do the front wheels, then put the front wheels back on, then do the back. Most of the caliper paint says you have to do everything at one time because the paint dries and hardens in like 2 hours.

I'm guessin you can put the wheels back on even if the paint hasn't completely dried. Just don't go for a drive about a day or two. Correct?

 

I'd do the whole front, then the whole rear. Use a floor jack and jack stands.

After 24 hours, the stuff is pretty hard, so you should be fine to drive around without fear you're going to permanently stick road grit to your calipers.

--Dan
Mach V
FastMINI.net

 

That's what I thought. Thanks Dan.

 

First mod...front and rear

 

Here's the job my Hubby did on my calipers about a week ago. They look sweet.

 

Looks great! It was my first mod as well :0)

 

I did the same thing, looks cool, especially with my red springs

 

I did mine on Saturday.