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MikeMzda3
6/1/2007 9:20:27 AM
I'm looking to get some caliper paint for my 3. The car is Silver, with 20% wraparound tint... I'm going back and forth between Black and Red paint - leme know watcha think
sstlaure
6/1/2007 9:26:57 AM
Make sure you do a real good job cleaning and prepping the calipers, otherwise the paint will peel off. I'd recommend that you do the job wearing medical type gloves to avoid skin oil contamination.
MikeMzda3
6/1/2007 10:09:33 AM
virgin1
6/1/2007 12:36:51 PM
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ORIGINAL: sstlaure
Make sure you do a real good job cleaning and prepping the calipers, otherwise the paint will peel off. I'd recommend that you do the job wearing medical type gloves to avoid skin oil contamination.
VERY good suggestion indeed. Also, the paint drys VERY quickly, but can be cut with med-dry laquer thinner, which helps. Plan on making a day of it, allowing for time (20mins or so) in between to dry and recoat. I wish someone had suggested that to me when I first did mine.
Plan on putting on several additional coats over the next several months. It will chip @ first, but gets stronger w/additional coats and time.
As for your original question: PLEASE don't do red. Red calipers are SO overdone.
W/Sunlight you have a number of choices that, imo would look good. I did the blue w/aluminum silver Mazda decals on my Rally White and am very happy how they turned out.
Yellow would also work. Black? Orange? Red, of course. 
Silver is a basically a neutral color, like white, so your choices are wide and varied.
virgin1
6/1/2007 12:47:23 PM
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ORIGINAL: MikeMzda3
both good ideas - and just to show you the product...
http://www.tirerack.com/brakes/g2/caliper_paint.jsp
$38.00!!! Mike, Mike, Mike! Go to your local parts store and buy a Dupli-Color kit for half that ($16.95.) You'll get a nice job and have plenty left over for touch-ups. One other suggestion though, buy some additional cheapy desposable paint brushes... another $3-5.00.
dentinger
6/1/2007 1:46:00 PM
here are my calipers in red....
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virgin1
6/1/2007 2:04:00 PM
They look orange in that pic???
Lupae3s
6/1/2007 6:33:47 PM
no thats red. if the picture was taken by a digital camera, you might need to check your white balance. if analog, you just snapped the shot at the wrong exposure. try using a gray card next time...youll be surprised with the results...optimum exposure every time.
but, i voted for the calipers to be painted black. the rear brakes are known to create a lot of brake dust...so painting them black would hide the dust very well, and still look sick. and if you ever tint your windows, theyll match nicely.
MazdaN00b
6/1/2007 11:05:16 PM
what color would look good with the 07 phantom purple paint jobber?
wsoape281
6/1/2007 11:27:50 PM
i always recommend red. i think that it just makes an otherwise dull part of the car stand out a little.
virgin1
6/2/2007 3:13:07 AM
So would yellow, and it's much more unique than the red. But it doesn't work well w/every color and is certainly not for everybody. And the blue on mine stands out well too.
At the last local meet I was too in Feb, a metallic blue MSP showed up w/yellow calipers and white wheels. A number of us (about 20 cars showed up and around 25 ppl) thought it looked hawt! I know you wouldn't think so to envision it in your head, @ least I wouldn't have, but it worked well on the car. Kinda' Rally car style. Most of us said that we liked the look.
virgin1
6/2/2007 3:26:21 AM
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ORIGINAL: MazdaN00b
what color would look good with the 07 phantom purple paint jobber?
Your choices are more limited. Red and blue would almost certainly clash w/the body paint.
Black, silver, gold or white are the only choices I can envision that might work well w/that color... unless you go w/body colored calipers. But where would you get a high-temp paint in that color?
I wonder if there's an additive out there to help add heat resistance to normal laquer or enamel? Afterall, there are all kinds of additives for automotive paints.
Any body (shop) ppl onboard that could answer that question?
sstlaure
6/2/2007 12:24:06 PM
That blue looks nice virgin1...
I voted black because I know eventually this stuff chips/peels and the black blends in better.
Having a chip on a bright red or blue caliper is like walking into a party with a giant booger on your face.
virgin1
6/2/2007 3:06:25 PM
Thanks SS. It's a std Dupli-Color caliper paint... about 6-7 (8?) coats over several months.
As I said though, it doesn't seem to chip nearly as easily as it did @ 1st. The more coats and heat (driving,) the more resistant it seems to get.
I will admit now that I had originally bought a red kit from good ole' Wal-Mart, the only color they stock, but just couldn't bring myself to use it. So, I returned it a few days later and went to the parts store where they had several other choices, including this blue. It doesn't look like much paint but after all those coats, and coating the rotor hats several times too, I still have enough left for more touch ups, if necessary. That stuff goes further than you'd think!
MikeMzda3
6/7/2007 11:31:22 AM
i went ahead and painted them black with the g2 paint...got it for 37 dollars shipped off of ebay - its got a lifetime gaurantee of not chipping or fading - if it does, all you have to do is send a proof of purchase and they send you a brand new kit. the black looks nice, very subtle, doesnt scream for attention like yellow or blue - but I think its a nice touch. took me about 2 hours do do all the calipers.
virgin1
6/7/2007 11:39:04 AM
So... Where are the pics?? :D
virgin1
6/7/2007 11:40:38 AM
"Screaming?" I wouldn't say my calipers scream @ ppl. ~~
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dannewitzm
6/7/2007 12:18:31 PM
Heres a noobie question for all....are you taking the whole caliper off the rotor to paint, or just using brushes "around" where you can reach? I love the look, I just dont want to end up looking like a tool with a half-a$$ed caliper on my suuuwwwweeeetttt speed3.
virgin1
6/7/2007 12:54:25 PM
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ORIGINAL: dannewitzm
Here's a newbie question for all....are you taking the whole caliper off the rotor to paint, or just using brushes "around" where you can reach? I love the look, I just don't want to end up looking like a tool with a half-a$$ed caliper on my suuuwwwweeeetttt speed3.
It can be done both ways.
Speaking for me, I removed the front calipers, and finding the rears to be too much trouble, I left them on to paint them. Since the first time, 2 coats, I've left all of them on for all additional coats/touch-ups.
Hope this answers your question/helps!?
MikeMzda3
6/7/2007 3:04:56 PM
lol i didnt mean screaming in a bad way, im just saying, a bright color really pulls your eye ( i like the way you did your calipers btw, very nice ) and the black just kind of is there until you notice it.
the g2 kit i got off ebay (
http://search.ebay.com/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=g2+caliper+paint&category0= ) is a brush on...removal of the caliper is not required.
They tell you not to put the wheels on the car for 2 hours...I couldnt get jackstands under my rear-end, so getting all 4 wheels off the ground was going to be impossible (my jack is too tiny) so what I did was just one side of the car at a time....after the 2nd gloss coat was applied to each caliper...i waited a few minutes and i caaarefully slid the wheel back onto the studs....tightened everything and did it all overagain on the other side. worked fine for me. They also give you PLENTY of paint...i had half a can left over.
the kind of theme im going for is silver with black features....and yes, I love stock height...
the car is dirty. forgive me = P
virgin1
6/7/2007 3:39:38 PM
Relax Mike. 'Just razzin' ya', that's all. Im not offended. To each his/her own.
Actually, the first person I met in our local chapter has a Ti Gray Hatch w/black calipers and it looks very classy. But to me, my white needed some color, so I went the route I did.
It's cool, Man. You're OK in my book.
Lupae3s
6/7/2007 4:16:05 PM
hey mike. the black came out very nice (and subtle which is a good thing i think). now that ive seen yours, im going to paint my calipers black as well (ive got the silver/black theme going on as well).
in the picture that you posted, is your car on a jack there?...because that is one huge gap between wheel and car. i dont remember my car ever being that height...
MikeMzda3
6/7/2007 4:32:58 PM
lol no...i took it from a lower angle, straight on so you can reaaaally see the gap. i think the fenders kinda hide the gap when youre standing next to the car looking down....but from that direct side angle - and maybe the flash of the camera , lighting up the strut and everything , it really makes it look like I have a skyjacker setup on it. But no, it never looks THAT high. it just makes me wanna lower it even more.
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