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Bo38
post Jul 20 2008, 11:17 PM
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i was thinking about painting the disk brake calabers ( i ges thats what you call them) anyone do this ? i was thiking red. i work for my dad for his painting buisness so i like painting to spice it up a little.. make my stock 16''s look a liittle better ... i allready painted the plastic mitsubishi symbol on the rims looks allright
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post Jul 21 2008, 12:10 PM
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Can you post a picture of your painted emblem on your wheel? I am curious to see how it came out. :liebe011:
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post Jul 21 2008, 05:06 PM
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Can you post a picture of your painted emblem on your wheel?  I am curious to see how it came out.  :liebe011:
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Red is the safest color you can go for the calipers. Unfortunately, it's also the most played out.

Color match them to your car. Black gets black calipers, white gets white, etc. so on and so forth.

How did you go about painting the emblems? I can't even get the darn things off!
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post Jul 21 2008, 09:19 PM
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I painted mine red... it was discussed here:
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post Jul 22 2008, 12:14 AM
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i painted them today ! took a long time they look better ... heres a pic
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post Jul 22 2008, 12:16 AM
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as for the emblems pop the plastic peace off with a screwdriver and walaaaaa! i used paiters tape to tape it off ... ( my summer jobs a painter) ha :P
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post Jul 22 2008, 12:38 AM
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The darn things won't pop off! I don't want to scratch my rims or damage the plastic cap. I even wrapped the screwdriver with a paper towel and still no luck... YARGH!

By the way, the calipers look great! I wonder if I can just spray paint... the only caliper paint I can find is in red... and I want blue... :(
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post Jul 22 2008, 10:15 AM
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if you realy cant get them off ... you can take the hole wheel off annd push them out from behind ... mine came off realy easy

and i just went to autozone and got some engine paint .. they have that in all colors i think
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post Jul 22 2008, 10:46 AM
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I wonder if I can just spray paint... the only caliper paint I can find is in red... and I want blue... :(
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Patience young grasshopper..... you'd have to take the whole dang thing off to spray paint it. Not sure how well that would adhere. I'll check autozone around here and see if they have blue. I'll let ya know.
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post Jul 22 2008, 12:20 PM
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i dident take them off... no way in hell i wanta **** up my brake lines and stuff that would be bad .. i just taped around them ... like this
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post Jul 22 2008, 08:33 PM
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I have some black 17" Konig Feathers that I'm supposed to be getting tomorrow, and I was going to paint mine red just because the black on red looks freakin sweet! But I wonder how it would look if it was black? Too much black? Im trying to murder it out. Ill have pics by this weekend
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post Jul 22 2008, 09:26 PM
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Hey whatever floats your boat. I think with the black rims it would look alright. If it was silver with black, no so much. Post pics of the new bling!
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Hi, Can you tell me how do you paint the brake calipers....I mean is it just straight spray paint...or you also applied some base on it before painting red.
and how much paint is needed for the 4 brakes, I plan to do it on my car as well.
from quantity I mean to say, which size spray bottle I should buy.
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I painted mine red... it was discussed here:
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See previous post......

Also discussed a little here...
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QUOTE(Bo38 @ Jul 22 2008, 12:14 AM)
i painted them today ! took a long time they look better ... heres a pic
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Nice work, I could never pull off something like that because of cold weather, the paint would fall right off.
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post Jul 24 2008, 12:08 AM
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ya i got some break parts cleaner and spraypaint ( at autozone) and went at it .. not to hard .. i just put one heavy coat on ..
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post Jul 27 2008, 08:13 PM
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