Painted Calipers

[AllieCat]

I'm thinking about painting my calipers bronze like Nissan GTR's... Looked at G2 paint, obviously a custom color, brushed on and use black Audi emblems with the 4 rings. Any others done anything similar using a different technique or brand paint?

[q5 dave]

That'll work. Remember to use non-chlorinated brake cleaner.

fwiw, i used VHT high temp caliper paint.

[Smittylube]

I used caliper vinyl. No waiting for it to dry.

[riceboy22]

I used caliper vinyl. No waiting for it to dry.

Did you do that yourself Steve? Got closeup pics? I was looking into that, but vinyl shops were asking for like $400 to do it.

[hc_TK]

Who else are delivers caliper vinyl other than 3m reflective?

[Smittylube]

I did it myself and I suck at it so there are some edges that a pro might not have. Up close you can see the lines, but I still like it as anal as I am. Figure the wheels/brakes get filthy quickly and I'm not taking it to the show.
I wasn't sure about the reflective, but I really like it. Powder coat is probably best- and I use Anthony's as the best example. but it was fun doing it.

here is an example

[AllieCat]

Thanks for the replies guys, I appreciate it.

[Smittylube]

Anthony powder coat

[AllieCat]

Wow! Those look great!

[Smittylube]

I did my center plates red originally and then found some SQ5 stickers, but I wasn't 100% happy with them so I removed the vinyl from the plate and left it black like the 2016 factory red ones.

[AllieCat]

Got my new wheels yesterday... Ordering paint today... Hopefully I'll get it completed by next weekend. The calipers look so plain right now. I bought an S line wheel so the 5 spoke is a lot more revealing.

[R y an]

Anthony powder coat

These are really clean. +1

[Smittylube]

^^^^

for sure. Hard to do better. I would love mine in candy apple red. Time is the biggest issue IMO as well it needs to be baked, so a rebuild kit should be used after I would think.

The SQ brakes are really big and the color shows through pretty much any wheel you have, but they get dirty quickly so precision becomes less important IMO.

[AllieCat]

Mine is not an S line so they're bare metal calipers. That's why I want to paint them. Especially after I got my new wheels put on yesterday, they REALLY need to be painted now.