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Jun 10, 2002

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Painted My Calipers *Pics*

http://community.webshots.com/user/civic_mike

I used Dupli-Color's FORD DARK BLUE DE1606 (Thanks to Pogi Hoy for giving me the heads up on it a while back!), which matches the Eternal Blue Pearl fairly well. I just cleaned the area really well, masked off the areas I didn't want paint and applied 5 light coats. Pretty easy, and looks killer!

Mike

Jun 10, 2002

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is that a heat resistant paint?

looks good

Jun 10, 2002

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sweet!

Jun 10, 2002

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Looks great! How long did it take you? Did you use standard caliper paint?

Jun 10, 2002

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lookes sweet good job makes ure rimes stand out more [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-cool.gif[/IMG]

Jun 10, 2002

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looks great. i was also woundering if that was hight heat paint. another question i had was that if i use plasti-kote caliper paint as my primer, will it be ok to paint it over with plasti-kote blue candy apple paint?

Jun 10, 2002

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Looks subtle and sweet. They now match your car.

Jun 10, 2002

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looks sweet man! i just painted my calipers today too, except red on my ex black coupe with 17" giovanna kirin rims in the hypersilver color, it looks sweet with the calipers painted now. yours look great though, nice work.

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by the way, i used VHT paint, its made specifically for calipers and drums, you can get it any performance shop probably.

Jun 10, 2002

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looks tight... was it high temp. paint?

Jun 10, 2002

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That looks sweet man.
And Hey nice rims too.

Jun 10, 2002

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lookin good man, i like it!

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looks good!

Jun 11, 2002

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I used Dupli-Color, and it is high temperature paint. Didn't sand, prime or clear coat them either. Thanks for all of the comments!

Mike

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I wanna do that, anyone know where i can get high temp rally red spray paint??[IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-confused.gif[/IMG]

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Looks really good Mike!

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Did you use spray paint or is that brushed on? Looks great.

Jun 13, 2002

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Looks Pimp! Really sets off the contrast of white rims, blue center cap, blue car, blue caliper . . . now you just need bigger rotors!

Jun 13, 2002

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looking good

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Likin the colors, they go well together- nice job.

Jun 14, 2002

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Importz2k1
Thanks!

Decamo
I sprayed 5 light coats on. Thanks!

Vizyun
That's the first thing I said when I stepped back and looked at it! Actually the wheels are silver, and I plan on upgrading my front rotors with an AEM Big Brake kit and blue rotor hats of course [IMG]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/IMG]

HippyCivicEX012
Thank you!

maverickja17
Thank you very much!

Thanks for all the comments guys!

Mike

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looks very nice

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I picked up some red 1200 degree paint today I was going to try for my calipers. Anyone know what temp rating it needs to be? And how many coats suggested?

There is no DIY for painting the calipers yet.

Would like to change my rotors out at the same time. Money money money. Ha. None to spend.

Jun 25, 2002

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sweet. i just painted my calipers and drums today too!

Jun 25, 2002

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Heh Im holding off on painting my Calipers cause umm theyre uh stock....and stock rotors, maybe when I get new rotors, I would definitely NOT paint my drums I dont want anyone payng attention to those drums are w4ck.