CowsniperRX7

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I did mine myself, very easy, I didn't use a clearcoat, but they still look great.

bajaman

Nice job! In fact ALL of the painted ones shown here look good. To me it is a fairly easy task that offers tremendous reward.

Here's mine!

I REALLY need to paint my 'centers'.....

Brentis

They look great now, unfortunately, they'll look like @ss in 7000 miles... The clear will yellow, the red will fade and oxidize. It needs to be electrically or chemically bonded to the metal.

see #3235b in ghetto mods.

Meiogirl

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yay yellow, i want to do mine that color

CowsniperRX7

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yeah, sand off the mazda lettering on the front callipers to make em silver....or paint em black so they stand out

Scrapiron7

I see Brentis is somehow smarter than everyone else eh?

Brentis

I hope I'm wrong, cuz I think on my black car black calipers w/ the polished lettering would look fine.

I did it on my old supra TT and it just didn't look right over time. -- almost like when they are extremely hot the paint becomes sticky and attracts road grime.

Needless to say don't use wheel cleaner on your wheels - regardless of whether you have pimpin calipers or not. my $.02

apneablue

Goodfellas: Did you take your calipers off to polish them?

nocab72

I imagine that in order to polish them without making a total mess of the brake assembly, they were removed!

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M.Piedlourde

Did you use high-temp paint? Or plain old Wal-Mart spray paint?

nocab72

I used high-temp 900 degree on the red. Used regular ol normal temp for the silver. Thought the silver would probably melt off, but hasn't in 10 months, maybe the red acts as enough of a insulator that the silver doesn't get "as hot". (5 or 6 coats of red under the silver lettering paint)

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M.Piedlourde

Did you do the red, then the silver? How were you able to mask off the letters? And when sanding the letters, did you use the dremel, or just sandpaper? This is very interesting, thanks for sharing your information.

nocab72

I painted the entire thing red. Once it was dry, I painted OVER the red with silver paint and a little paint brush. No sanding of the letters, dremel or sandpaper.

some pics of the process here: http://flathat.woodstream.net/RX7/Painted_Calipers/

Brentis

Is the clear high temp as well? I didn't realize they made high temp clear. Have to admit they look nice.

nocab72

I didn't use any clear on mine, but bricke, the thread starter said he used normal temp clear I believe (I'm too lazy to go back and read the thread for you)

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Chaz

I used a 1500 degree engine enamel for my red and a 500 degree engine enamel for the clear coat. I found the clear high temp engine enamel at the local auto parts place next to the other high temp engine paints. I had to put about 5 coats of the red on the calipers before they looked right to me. I had a hell of a time getting the first couple of coats to stick really well, the stuff just kept wanting to drip off. I painted the Mazda lettering white with testors enamel and then covered the entire thing with about 3 coats of the clear high temp stuff. It turned out really well and they are pretty easy to clean. I thought about trying to polish the entire caliper but I was afraid the maintenance on them would be horrible. I was also going to polish the letters but I decided to just paint them for now. I may go back at some point and actually polish them but they look great right now.

Cheers!

nocab... did you prime yours? or did u just paint away without bothering?

Scrapiron7

You will definitely want to use primer or you will have a hard time getting the paint to stick. It will get spotty and only stick in certain area. We tried that on a caliper first, the cleaned it off and did primer. Much better using primer. Trust me on this one

Cheers!

just regular primer? or is there such thing as high temp primer?