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Old 7/13/07, 01:30 PM
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Painted Calipers

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?
Old 7/13/07, 01:35 PM
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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.

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Originally Posted by Emperor008
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?
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.

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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.
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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.





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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.
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Here's mine, I used G2
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Originally Posted by jay_wx
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.
Jay, where did you get the cool MUSTANG letters for the caliper?
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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.
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if you use the g2 kit is it nesessary to remove the calipers or is it ok to just remove the wheels?
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Originally Posted by Mach
Jay, where did you get the cool MUSTANG letters for the caliper?
Probably this place, this is where most of us have gotten these.

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Originally Posted by Obi Juan
if you use the g2 kit is it nesessary to remove the calipers or is it ok to just remove the wheels?
just the wheels- paint the calipers on the car
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Originally Posted by tom281
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.


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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!
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Originally Posted by Emperor008
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 wanna go red on a blue car? Suggestions?
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.
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Originally Posted by philster2003
What Tom said.............. ANd I really Like Tom's blue color calipers!

Thanks! Blue is the way to go on these blue cars, atleast in my opinion.
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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.
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Originally Posted by Mach
where did you get the cool MUSTANG letters for the caliper?
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
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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.
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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


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