Pics of my painted calipers (off the car)

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01-31-2005, 04:31 PM

)2overt SS

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Pics of my painted calipers (off the car)

Pictures are in my sig

What do you think? Took me like 3 weeks to do this

Not that I couldn't have done it in 3 or 4 days, but I mean my car is stored and it's freezing out. So days to go outside and paint are kinda few and far between.

-Cleaned up the surface with a wire brush and some laquer(sp?) and then tapped off everywhere that I didn't want painted. (This step took a whole day alone)

-I then used up about 1 and 1/4 can of red VHT (Very High Temp.) Caliper paint. Not sure how many coats exactly because I start off by very lightly dusting, letting it dry, then again and again untill I have a nice base and then I put about 3 or 4 coats on. So if I counted each of those as a coat.. I would have about 15 coats

-I finished up with about 3 coats of engine enamel clear coat.

I also did not use any primer. I could not find any high temp specified so I figured it be better to not use any.

01-31-2005, 04:40 PM

WhiteboysZ28

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Re: Pics of my painted calipers (off the car)

No all you need are these , I put these on my 94 & they looked great .

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33563

JOSH

02-01-2005, 11:39 AM

teke184

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Re: Pics of my painted calipers (off the car)

not sure if those decals are from brent or not...i know he's in florida...so maybe.

contact brent on this board ...bfranker...for decals in whatever color you want.