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Painted Calipers Last Night PICTURE HEAVY 56K :(

Thunderturd

Thunderturd

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I decided to paint my calipers last night, at midnight. It was the worst idea ever because it took a lot longer than I thought. So 3 hours of sleep later I return with pictures. What you guys think?


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the second pic looks like bare metal? did you sand em down first or something? or is that just how the paint looks?
 
Its Silver Dupli-Color paint, 17 bucks for the kit.

Cleaned them with the spray then brushed them with a wire brush. Then brushed on 2 coats. Waited for that to dry then sanded it to be kinda smooth. Brush on as many coats as needed usually 4 total coats.
 
Nice, im glad you used the dupli-color kit, ive seen that at local places and wanted to know how well it worked.. now i know !

now time for me to figure out my colour scheme!
 


I've used the kit also, its the only paint I use now.

Gotta be the brush on style...

if you prep the calipers properly, and paint it as per instructions you get a really nice smooth ceramic paint. Last a long time.
 
I had no problems with this paint. They give you a TON of it. The can I used doesn't even look like a used any. I could prolly do like at least 5 more cars with the same paint.
 
I G2'd my calipers, and Duplicolored the rotors. I figure that the rotors will be replaced before any caliper (hopefully). Now my brake system is rust free too (since the rotors were cleaned and painted)... G2 is Da Bomb!
 
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