painting calapers

[phatman3801]

hey im just want 2 paint my brake calapers and also arnd the disk where is it all rusted, i have 2 questions: 1st when painting arnd the disk wot should of spray paint shoul;d i use? i was thinking mabye that heat spray paint? and 2ndly how bout to u paint the calapers? do u have to take them off? and r there sum bits u cnt spray?

[strap-on]

go to ur local auto1 and find some vht caliper paint specially designed for the job, idealy u should take them off ( unless theres some trick to putting em back on) but i left my onm just give em a good wash with brakleen or something, tape up everything you dont wanna be painted thn go for it. well thats what i did, im probabaly totaly wrong (or someone on here will tell me i am, seems they like doing that round here)

[aesc]

VHT make a special brake calliper paint for this purpose. Think it can stand upto about 500 degrees. If you use a flame resistant paint (think they can withstand 1400 deg.) it wont give as shiny a finish. You just need to take the wheels off and make up the places you dont want to paint, like the actual disc, brake hose lines, and inside the guard etc. You dont need to take them off. If you wanted to get real fussy you could take out the pad so you dont spray the part which you can see when its in the calliper but i wouldnt bother getting that extreme.