Anyone have any success with painted calipers? I can see right through my rims, and its killing me to see those ugly gray calipers. I have never painted them myself, and my friends have, but they get all crappy looking and dirty and the paint fades. Anyone know where you can purchase already painted/colored calipers? Post any pics.
I wanna go red on a blue car? Suggestions?

 

I have a set of 4 stock calipers that were once painted so the paint is chipped some and faded, but I'm willing to sell to you for $150 plus shipping so that you can send them off for powder coating. I purchased a second set and had them powder coated.

-danny


(new powder coated ones)

 

Here's a pic of mine with red calipers. I got the paint kit from Moss Mustang and had the dealer do the painting along with installing all of aftermarket mods.

 

You can get a caliper paint kit, there's a couple of brands out there. It will take a few hours, but the results are well worth it.
Downside, now there's more to keep clean! LOL
I used the Duplicolor kit on mine.

 

Go to Ebay, and search for G2 caliper paint. It is strong stuff, haven't heard of anyone's calipers chipping when painted with the G2 kit. Took me about 4 hours total, including removing the wheels, cleaning the calipers, painting, waiting to dry, reapplying additional coats, etc.

You can do this mod yourself and get excellent results for like $40.

 

I painted my calipers on my 03 GT with a G2 kit back in Sept. of 2004, no chips or fading at all - calipers are nice and shiny still.

 

Here's mine, I used G2

 

Jay, where did you get the cool MUSTANG letters for the caliper?

 

From all the research I'm doing, power coating is definitely the way to go. Absolutely will not chip...even if you take a hammer to them.

Downside is the $$. You'll have to take the entire assembly apart.

 

if you use the g2 kit is it nesessary to remove the calipers or is it ok to just remove the wheels?

 

Probably this place, this is where most of us have gotten these.

xenonmods

 

just the wheels- paint the calipers on the car

 

What Tom said.............. ANd I really Like Tom's blue color calipers!

Here are mine I used Duplicolor paint from AutoZone.

 

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm gonna go with the G2 paint kit. I just need to find a dealer close to my house. I don't wanna wait (shipping time) to put these on!

 

If you paint them I vote for blue to match the car (see Tom's pics).
I took a dremel with a wire brush wheel to clean mine up at tire rotation time.
It comes out much more silver than gray.

 

Thanks! Blue is the way to go on these blue cars, atleast in my opinion.

 

I used Duplicolor on my Altima (I know, I know, spare me). The stock were an odd dark olive green colour, which looked rusty on the older cars I've seen around. I painted them black a few months after purchase, and they still look fine about 10k miles later.

 

I'm pretty sure this is the guy I got mine from when I did the calipers on my 96 :

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Ford-MUSTANG-Brake-Caliper-Decals-Pony-Cobra-5-0-GT-V6_W0QQitemZ300128599460QQihZ020QQcategoryZ6755QQr dZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

I did one car in Black with a G2 kit and I love it. Anyone hear a rumor or know where I can actually get a G2 Metallic Kit in Redfire? They advertise special Mustang kits, but they do not show specific locations to find the Redfire one.

 

This is were I bought mine from, they have them for $35.14. They have a pretty wide range of colors listed. I actually bought the yellow and red and mixed my own to get grabber orange, it came out pretty good.
http://wheelskin.com/g2_engine_paint_kit.html