#1: Painted calipers Author: furryhobnob, Location: NuneatonPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 7:41 am ---- Had a few hours spare so decided to paint my calipers, just doing the front for now, will do the rears through the week, I know red isn't everyone's favourite as it's probably the most overdone colour but I'm doing a black and red theme so they had to be red, anyhow here's a couple of pics
Before
During
After
#2: Re: Painted calipers Author: ukskater01, Location: sutton surrey/welwyn garden cityPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:00 am ---- Looks good mate, did you use hammerite?
#3: Re: Painted calipers Author: furryhobnob, Location: NuneatonPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:02 am ---- No I used e-tech caliper paint mate
#4: Re: Painted calipers Author: ukskater01, Location: sutton surrey/welwyn garden cityPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:05 am ---- Cheers mate
#5: Re: Painted calipers Author: furryhobnob, Location: NuneatonPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:07 am ---- No worries pal, you can get it off eBay , it comes with a brush and some cleaner to get all the s**te off your calipers before painting
#6: Re: Painted calipers Author: kieron, Location: in the housePosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:14 am ---- looks good, i have a tin of it in my shed i must do mine at some point
#7: Re: Painted calipers Author: furryhobnob, Location: NuneatonPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:22 am ---- Do it Kieron it doesn't take long pal
#8: Re: Painted calipers Author: bisphenol-a, Location: AntarcticaPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:50 am ---- everyone seems to paint it with a brush. other car forums i see they mask everything but the caliper and spray on.
anyone did that before?
#9: Re: Painted calipers Author: furryhobnob, Location: NuneatonPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 8:53 am ---- Most people I know brush it on, but you can spray if you want,my mate who was a sprayer as a job painted his with a brush instead of spraying, I don't know what the benefits of either way are?
#10: Re: Painted calipers Author: Jordan_xsi, Location: IpswichPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:11 am ---- Looks very good mate!
#11: Re: Painted calipers Author: furryhobnob, Location: NuneatonPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:12 am ---- Cheers jordan
#12: Re: Painted calipers Author: JE_180, Location: WiltshirePosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 9:18 am ---- nice now you match me
#13: Re: Painted calipers Author: kieron, Location: in the housePosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 11:21 am ---- I say paint the badge on the front or maybe just the lion bit, black and red go very well together
#14: Re: Painted calipers Author: cruncher75, Location: SouthamptonPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 3:07 pm ---- Done mine yellow found it easy with a brush
#15: Re: Painted calipers Author: Abzynthe, Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 3:10 pm ---- Looks really good I think i should go over mine again, the orange is a bit pale lol
#16: Re: Painted calipers Author: meady, Location: basingstokePosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 3:12 pm ---- looks good mate, in the third pic without the jack looks like the paint can is holding the car up
#18: Re: Painted calipers Author: kingdom200, Location: Leamington SpaPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 3:14 pm ---- mate that came out s**t hot!!!
#19: Re: Painted calipers Author: furryhobnob, Location: NuneatonPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 3:42 pm ---- Cheers guys, I'm pleased with how it looks, wil be doing the rears this week sometime
#20: Re: Painted calipers Author: Mattie-RS, Location: A Track near you ;)Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 3:51 pm ---- Always looks better with painted calipers
The Discs look tiny in that last pic tho
#21: Re: Painted calipers Author: furryhobnob, Location: NuneatonPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:09 pm ---- I was thinking how small the disc looked too,it's standard size though
#22: Re: Painted calipers Author: Mattie-RS, Location: A Track near you ;)Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:10 pm ---- Get some Brembo's under there
One thing Pug lack is using some decend brakes
#23: Re: Painted calipers Author: furryhobnob, Location: NuneatonPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:23 pm ---- To be fair the brakes on the 180 are pretty decent, especially over my gti 138, brembo's would look good but can't be bothered uprating the hoses and servo
#24: Re: Painted calipers Author: Mattie-RS, Location: A Track near you ;)Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:39 pm ---- Yea they are pretty decend tbh, but after experiancing Brembo's can certainly tell the difference
#25: Re: Painted calipers Author: JE_180, Location: WiltshirePosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:44 pm ---- Don't Brembo's squeel like a w**re though?
#26: Re: Painted calipers Author: Mattie-RS, Location: A Track near you ;)Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:45 pm ---- Mine don't
#27: Re: Painted calipers Author: JE_180, Location: WiltshirePosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 4:50 pm ---- Meh, just something I've seen people complaining about, something to do with the disc size?
#28: Re: Painted calipers Author: furryhobnob, Location: NuneatonPosted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 5:21 pm ---- Mattie must be lucky as most people's squeak like fook even if they've used a shed load of copper grease
#30: Re: Painted calipers Author: DJ-, Location: UKPosted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:33 am ---- Matties came standard on his clio rs so they wont squeel as its correct fitment!!
Matties came standard on his clio rs so they wont squeel as its correct fitment!!
IMAO
'because im cool as fook
what size is the brembo on urs?
#34: Re: Painted calipers Author: Mattie-RS, Location: A Track near you ;)Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:06 am ---- 4 Pot Brembo's with 312mm x 28mm Discs
#35: Re: Painted calipers Author: Seabook, Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 11:09 am ---- too small, get something like 350 brake kit under your 17" wheel
#36: Re: Painted calipers Author: Mattie-RS, Location: A Track near you ;)Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:25 pm ---- There's hardly anymore room for any bigger John
Carnt get your finger behind the caliper
#37: Re: Painted calipers Author: DJ-, Location: UKPosted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:36 pm ---- them wheel bolts dont like nice!
#38: Re: Painted calipers Author: Mattie-RS, Location: A Track near you ;)Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 2:41 pm ----
DJ- wrote:
them wheel bolts dont like nice!
I know!
#39: Re: Painted calipers Author: PugJH, Location: NorthantsPosted: Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:45 am ---- How easy is this to do?
I'm worried about not getting a good enough finish on it, or painting something i shouldnt lol
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