Subject	Stock color looks good>>
Posted by	RROBE99999 on July 26, 2002 at 8:57 AM
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In Reply To	I'm shootin for "classy" when I do this so>> posted by BlueZ on July 26, 2002 at 08:00 AM
Message	I painted my front calipers cast iron gray. Its a mettallic looking high temp engine paint i got at the parts store. It looks like a new stock unpainted calpiper. One trick to keep the lettering silver is to mask with vaseline B4 painting. The paint won't stick, and you just wipe it off when you're done. Then apply clearcoat to the whole caliper to make shiny and easy to clean. I'm glad I chose a stock color choice 'cus even though I cleaned thoroughly, and used three coats of high temp paint, it has flaked/chipped off on a few spots since i did it 3 years ago. But you can hardly notice since the color matches the bare metal. Also when I cleaned the back calipers to paint them, they looked so good that they didn't need paint, and still matched the front. Blue powdercoat looks awesome though if you have the resources to do that.
Follow Ups	Pics of Blue or Black Z calipers - BlueZ 06:55:08 07/26/02 Here are mine, Ford Dark Blue. - Woody75 (Denver) 07:16:42 07/26/02 looks good, did you sand the NISSAN or is it painted silver? (n/m) - BlueZ 07:27:38 07/26/02 Sanded (n/m) - Woody75 (Denver) 08:02:27 07/26/02 You did a great job on the letters. How did you do it? - z ya 07:35:16 07/26/02 linkus -> - my91z 07:40:16 07/26/02 That's the link I used when I did mine. But I didn't have a - z ya 07:53:28 07/26/02 I'd think sandpaper wrapped around a flat piece of wood> - my91z 07:56:35 07/26/02 how would you polish it with the dremel though? (n/m) - BlueZ 07:58:21 07/26/02 "with" or "without" dremel? (n/m) - my91z 08:18:25 07/26/02 sorry, I meant "without" (n/m) - BlueZ 08:23:48 07/26/02 B4 painting sand the "Nissan" smooth. Then after painting> - my91z 08:31:13 07/26/02 I kept scraping paint off the calipers when using wood. (n/m) - z ya 08:54:42 07/26/02 How? The letters are raised. Use a flat piece of wood. (n/m) - Woody75 (Denver) 10:47:02 07/26/02 Block of wood and sand paper. (n/m) - Woody75 (Denver) 08:00:50 07/26/02 Amazing what Brembo sloted/crossed drilled do for looks :) (n/m) - ZBlacktt 07:42:38 07/26/02 Those pics are old, I already have some. (n/m) - Woody75 (Denver) 08:12:26 07/26/02 Cool beans :) (n/m) - ZBlacktt 13:28:21 07/26/02 Beautiful...n/m - Perffect 09:24:19 07/26/02 I'm shootin for "classy" when I do this so>> - BlueZ 08:00:05 07/26/02 Yellow would look good. - Woody75 (Denver) 08:02:08 07/26/02 I feel like yellow looks too sporty.. (n/m) - BlueZ 08:05:36 07/26/02 Stock color looks good>> - RROBE99999 08:57:03 07/26/02 Blue calipers (Powdercoated) - RickZ 08:13:11 07/26/02 Phawk!! Every pic on this thread is a red X. DIE I.E.! (n/m) - MaTT (92TT) 09:38:00 07/26/02 F5... *shrugs* they work for me (n/m) - alcky 10:39:07 07/26/02 here are mine w/ ford blue-i want to redo them in the metali - Wagz (the original) 10:22:38 07/26/02 VHT bright blue >>> - teahead 17:02:25 07/26/02
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