when you refurb the front brembo's from silver to red, would you spray them to get a better finish or just use a hammerite style paint,

im going to sandblast em & then prime and spray unless anyone on here thinks brush paint is better?

I'm going to get the silver paint off mine with nitromors.

You really need to strip the paint and spray them to get the best finish IMHO . I used Nitromors, then followed up with a wire brush attachment on a drill and the Dremel to get the hard to reach bits off. It takes some time to get them truly free from paint .

Phil

obviously take the calipars off tho eh!

halfords do a range of colours in caliper paint

do you think its possbile to use the nitromos and spray them with just the wheel off as really dont want to start taking them apart

If you want a half assed job anything is possible :-)

I think yellow calipers look best on a blue car

but not ink black!

My coupe has red porsche 996 turbo calipers on it

cowboy did his with just the wheels off and turned out fine

might do mine over the weekend and just take the wheels off, is there any good painting guids

good choice going for the red calipers redjon, they will look great on a sprinty

Orange or Yellow, red is ok, but Yellow with blue, triffic!

I'd also go for yellow on a Sprinty. The contrast would look great. If its good enough for Porsche ceramics...

I just used Red Hammerite

Clicky

And still looks good nearly a year on

^ thats what i have to do the rears, but surely not the fronts

Surely not what?

Heres the rears incidentally

just thought using a brush the finish would be poor but look really good, did you dimantel them also apply laqure

The hammerite was smooth finish so it smooths over as it dries I think

All I did was give them a very good clean with a degreaser and that was it for the fronts..for the rears I had to get a steel brush to get all the crud off and then I painted them

And I painted the fronts insitu but dismantled the rears

was going to do this in next few days, i did my rear left on on the previous coupe i had, i have smooth red too, excited now, did you not have to strip current pain off the front brembos, so it was just degrease

Yeah that was how I did it but I know that others (MattB for example) were a lot more thorough in their refurbishment!

I did mine as an expirement more than anything as I imagine I'll be taking them apart fairly soon to replace the seals etc (but the paint is still looking good )

Here's a guide

awsome, guna do the lazy mans way lol

Probably quicker painting the fronts when they are off though ..

going to do them tomorow, backs first then see if i have time to do the front too

Hey chaps, pretty new to the forum, been reading it for a while but this is my virgin post!! Anyway, I have a 20v Turbo in Rosso Winner Metallic and want to give my front callipers some TLC due to a medium sized paint chip on one of them. Has anyone seen a suitable colour for them aside from Silver?

painted my rears yesterday, and started to bucket it down, one looks ok, unsure bout the other never checked it, hope its not ruined,

look throught the topic, very helpfull plenty of pics floating around with peeps coops