xzombiex66

For those of you that have painted your brake calipers, What did you use to do it? Was it hard? I bought some spray for the drums, it says it takes 7 days for the paint to cure does that mean I cant drive my car or put my rims on for a week? I would use this paint for the calipers but I want paint that I can brush on. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

SLVR FOX

i used Dupli color caliper paint.

cleaned the calipers down with brake cleaner, dried and put on a few light coats.
by the time i was done with the 2nd caliper the 1st was dry.

put my rims on and started on the rear.

mobster wagon

I bought Caliper Paint at Wal-Mart. Worked excellent, dried fast and was nice and shiny, thus easy to clean. I used red, but I think they have other colors. Clean the calipers really good, I used a wire brush then a spray on brake cleaner and let it dry for an hour or so just to be sure.

Lee3333

Did you remove the calipers and drums, or just mask around them?

MWG2

I used pink nail polish and a hair dryer to dry it. Looks great. LOL

chevyguy

Man, now I have to pick another color...

I was thinking of using this for mine:

http://www.tirerack.com/brakes/g2/caliper_paint.jsp

Eaglesnest

Make sure you have all four wheels off and the calipers cleaned and masked before you mix the paint. You only have a set amount of time before it sets up in the can. Of course that is in the directions, but who reads those anyway. I painted mine with the duplicolor RED the first week I had it and the RED looks great on the Black SS. ANyway have fuin with it.

PS: If you ever decide to sell the 79 El Camino let me know. I had a silver 79 SS.

Offy

I used the Duplicolor brush on to eliminate the trouble of masking off everything. It was fast and it dries smooth with no brush marks.

mobster wagon

Ditto.