Yea, thats pretty much the easiest way, unless you wanan take off your caliper and bleed the brake lines. I had no difficulties accessing any part of the caliper by leaving them on.

 

thanks guys... yeah, I think I will just paint them right on the car. I am sure I can access most if not all of the calipers. Just standard high temp engine paint? I heard folks use that too... I was just worried at first that it wouldn't match the red of the FD.... but from Mahjik's pictures, I think it will.

Also, at first I thought just sanding the MAZDA emblem would be good enough (silver color) but I kindda like Mahjik's white letters... what do you guys think?

 

Black Supra, can you please post some pics of yours?

 

The Folia Tec paint is extremely glossy when brushed. Did you see the pictures of my calipers?

 

This is just my humble opinion, but...

No offense to Mahjik, but are you proud enough of the fact that they're Mazda calipers to highlight that fact by painting the letters in a contrasting color? When I had stock calipers, I ground the Mazda logo off and the polished the outer half. Personally, if I were painting my stock calipers and wasn't going to go to that extreme, I'd just paint over the Mazda logo and be done with it. From a distance, people will mistake them for aftermarket equipment instead of OEM, and isn't that sort of the point of painting them in the first place? A "free" upgrade?

 

i used dupli-color's new caliper kit. i did 3 coats on the front and 2 on the rear. there's no runs or drips, and i still have 3/4 of the paint left over. it's pretty thick so you can still do it while the calipers are on the car

 

I bought some G2 gold caliper paint but I haven't applied them yet. Just wondering if anybody can post some pictures of painted gold calipers. BTW, my FD is black. Thanks.

 

Since my caliper paint is turning black I'd like to strip them and put a fresh finish on. Any suggestions for how I might best go about doing that? Besides sandblasting?

 

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...8&page=2&pp=15

You could try Carb Cleaner. That stuff strips about anything. I made the mistake of using it while a part was still in the engine bay. Now I have a little paint missing in a spot.

 

Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I'm thinking about doing this as one of my winter projects, and I was looking at the Duplicolor kit. Anyone know how this paint holds up?

 

None of them really hold up well to track duty. You'll end up repainting them eventually again if you start to do any track days. For street driving, any of the high temp paints will be just fine.

 

Ok, kind of what I thought, but I figured I'd ask anyway. I still haven't had chance to do any track stuff, only autox, but hopefully that will change next year. I may do this anyway as I've got lots of time coming up with the car just sitting in the garage.

Thanks for the info.

 

damn that looks good

 

I do remember a LONG time ago on the big list someone painted their calipers with Testors model paint and said it held up for 2 years with NUMEROUS track events. But, it's SO easy to put the paint on with Testors and a brush that touchups are no biggie.

Dale

 

I use VHT brake/caliper paint it was like $6.00 at the local speed shop.

 

Well, I had to pick up some new hose clamps for my new radiator hoses, so I picked up the duplicolor kit while i was in the store. I'm working on cleaning the calipers now, trying to decide if I want to polish the 'mazda' logo or not. I'm not in a real hurry, so maybe I will.

 

I don't know about that. I've tried several different paints and the brake dust from the track events eventually have stuck to and torn up the paint. It doesn't make them look horrible, but not like they did when they were first painted.

A buddy of mine usually repaints his calipers every winter.

 

i just put up some pics of my caliper process....

http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/trippi...bum?.dir=/ab3e

if that doesnt work goto

http://photos.yahoo.com/trippinted69

and then the caliper folder.

 

Well, i'm pretty much done, still need to sand off the paint on the Mazda logo on the pass side. Couple of pics (yes I got a little on the center of the rotor, don't think it'll hurt anything :p






This is the duplicolor brush on kit. I used a different brush though, the one that came with the kit sucks.

 

Did you leave the calipers on the car when you did it? I'm guessing "yes" since you got some on the center of the rotor. Did you paint the "back" side?

 

I second the question above... Looks really good though. What kind of brush did you get? The duplicolor is also available at Autozone or Advanced Auto right? I am going for black... do you know if they have that color too?

 

Yeah, i left the calipers on while I painted. I took the brake pads out on the fronts and masked off the pin areas then painted them right on the rotor. I used a wide testors modeling brush that i had from my models I build. I painted a good portion of the back side, but not all of it, I figure you won't be able to see that with the wheels on anyway.

I got this kit at Advanced auto.

 

I've been looking for the brush on kit. Autozone and Pep Boys seem to only have spray cans.

 

I used the Duplicolor kit as well and highly recommend it. It comes with enough paint to do about 3 cars maybe more. Around here it's available at Walmart, Autozone, Oreily's Auto. The kit comes with a brush but mine had bristles falling off into the paint, so I would highly suggest buying a set of the Testors brushes, comes with different sized brushes and their quality is much better.

Edit: For the 'Mazda' lettering I used Testors model paint but it is already starting to peel after only about 2 months.

 

I had my first calipers painted and the brake dust eventually trashed the finish.

Since then I have polished the calipers and it looks mucho better.

People tell me that the shine of the polished calipers matches the contact portion of the brake rotors.