Last saturday I took 4 hours to clean and paint my break calipers. My new rims should come in this week so hopefully they'll show them off well. Sorry if anyone thinks its rice, i think it looks great w/ it being so close to the color of my car, to each their own.

ps. yeah i know my car is dirty...it'll get a good wash when the new rims arive.

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brake

 

I did the same thing with red 500degree paint and it looks wayyyyyy better than stock in my oppinion. not rice at all if you ask me.

 

Theres nothing rice about painted brake calipers at all. Looks good man.

-Joe

 

i do have one comment though.....i see u got the single piston.......shoulda went ahead and picked urself a set of 4 pistons...

 

That's right. Painted Brake Drums on the other hand......


I was thinking the same thing.
You could pick up a used set of 4 piston calipers pretty cheap - and spend some time repainting them. Then when you put them on - they would look great through the new rims. That and you'd get impropved braking!

 

Yup- 4 pot brakes painted up, then grind and polish the mazda logo-

Tasty.

 

how the hell does he have 5 lug and 1 piston calipers? i thought only base with 4 lig cars had teh tiny brakes? or is this an s5 thingy?

 

S5 Gtu has 5lug 1pot

Engine Enamel, last pict is after a snow storm.

 

Nope, Ive had my calipers black for a while, an recently changed to red.




I took a wire wheel to each caliper (off the car) until I had gotten all of the dirt and brake dust off. I then used high temp engine enamel, with a clear, and baked them under my baking lamp.

 

As long as you mask everything off and don't end up with red discs.

 

why not just take the caliper off, gives you a chance to inspect and clean everything as well as maybe replace pads, or rotors.

I painted mine red, VHT brake caliper paint, looked awesome till I cleaned them with simple green and they faded orangy

 

cause then you'll have to bleed them...

 

i've bled my brakes so much in the last year that I was able to reblled the four coners and the master cylinder from a dry system (and new master cylinder) in less than 20 minutes alone. I was hauling *** though.

 

Oh my God!! that has to be one of the easiest things to do. Pumping the pedal is sooo tough!!

Most of these cars could probably use fresh brake fluid anyway.

 

not to mention most of us are still on our original master cyl..... the extra pumping could easily cause it to fail....

changing out the master cyl. is a pain in the *** as well. but have fun finding that out one day.

 

done that a long time ago and a few other cars since than.I guess you like brown brake fluid?

 

nope, take mine to a shop and have it flushed. but who said anything about fluid?

i was thinking more of the hassle it is to get the RIGHT PARTS from the parts store instead of having them screw you over ~3 times.

bottom line, if you like bleeding the brakes more than you need to, then go ahead and have fun

 

Well you see...I kinda spent all my extra funds on rims...lol

oh and sorry i keep misspelling "brake" i knew it looked funny, I posted at like 6am last night so yea, i was a lil out of it.

 

OK now that is rice.

-Joe

 

This is probaly a dumb question, but how do you tell the diff. between 1 piston calipers and 4 piston calipers?

 

Look at the pictures I posted on the 1st page of my calipers. You can clearly tell my front calipers are much larger, and different shaped. You cant see the pads from the side.

 

LoL. well if its any consilation i asked my dad about getting better brakes and he said its too much trouble right now :-(...w/e i'd of thought it'd make me safer, anyways, i have $300 reservered right now and hopefully I'll get a new catback w/in the next 2 weeks, I have some neighbors i have a grudge against hehe. If THAT is rice them i'm proud, you have no idea the hell i've been put threw b/c of them