JBrown

ok so as you know the 951 comes with nice brakes. i want to paint my calipers yellow with porsche in black but i do not know what paint to get i want it to be the same color as the porsche factory yellow if you have done this plz show pics

thanks

choinga

I'm going with the Duplicolor stuff (red for me) on mine with the VHTclear coat. Pulling them next week once I get my new Carbotech pads in.

m73m95

Can you reply back with how you feel about the carbotech pads?

A few people have recommended them to me for my car, but none of them have 944's. They all have Jap cars with MONSTER front calipers, and brakes off of a huffy in the rear. Our brake balance is a little different.... but I don't know if that would matter with pad selection.

beentherebaby

Carbotech pads have worked well for me and others. They have a variety of compounds so it's important to pick the best for your use. The more aggressive compounds wear the rotors as you'd expect with track use. Carbotech's street compounds work well with less dust than OE pads IME.

There are a variety of brake caliper paint options from just basic high-temp paint to epoxy to powder coated. Each has it's pluses and minuses.

http://www.tirerack.com/brakes/acces...|S||6446564773

choinga

I'll definitely let you know - but I've had a great pre-sales experience with Mike Puskar: jr@ctbrakes.com

For what it's worth - I have the Turbo S (89-91 951) big brakes and they are CT609-1521's on the front and CT345-1521's in back. $147/$141 respectively. Mine have the brake pad wear sensor slots and he was going to have 'production' put those in for me.

Crimson Nape Racing

I used VHT yellow, decals from eBay, and VHT clear. It is very close to the Porsche yellow. I can post pics tomorrow.

pettybird

you'll have better results if you use the VHT caliper paint that comes in the 1/2 pint can. It's for brushing the paint on, but it looked like crap when I did it. Instead, I bought a Preval disposable sprayer (it's an aerosol propellant can on top of a glass paint jar) and it worked beautifully. I went with red but they make yellow, silver and black too.

Those Preval sprayers are awesome for small batch stuff. You can buy a kit with the jar, and then just buy more propellant cans later.

choinga

I've got the brush on stuff - but I've heard good and bad...mostly good...or at least better than the spray on cans. They are brake pads and as long as they can pass the 5' test, I'm OK with it. Mine are hard to see behind my Fiske FM5's anyway...just got tired of the beat up, crusty black that are coated in OEM Pagid brake dust.

Thanks for the heads-up on that Preval sprayers - just ordered one (for $20, why not?)...going to give that a shot instead of the brush on....

black944 turbo

I did mine 7 years ago with duplicolar spray paint. Still looks new 7 years and 45k miles later. They match porsche red very well.

rgs944

Did mine with spray last year and they still look great. The most important thing to any paint job is the prep work. You have to have a clean abrasive surface for the paint to stick. I scratched mine with 60 grit SP before painting.

choinga

agreed. I bought some zip strip to make sure to get the rest of the clear and other gunk off and plan on sanding down as well.

FWIW, I found this searching around on the topic a few weeks back when I was prepping for this project - gave me a some good ideas - especially liked the part showing how he wet sands the raised lettering after painting. I was wondering how I was going to do that...

http://members.rennlist.com/v1uhoh/brakerf.htm

Dougs951

I did my Stock calipers with the Duplicolor brush on red and painted the PORSCHE script by hand with some more Duplicolor black I had laying around

It just helped add some accent to the car.

jtsporsche

that aircraft stripper in the link is some potent stuff. i used some brush on red a few years ago. my prep consisted of a little brake cleaner... and thats it, now its about 50% chipped off and looks like a$$. not to mention im kind of ashamed of my shoty work.

Prep well my friends

JBrown

ok thank you guys dougs can u take a closer pic of the brakes? im still debating what color to go with a white 944 what do you guys think?

Crimson Nape Racing

here is a pic of the VHT yellow. I sanded, cleaned, painted 3-4 coats yellow, 2-3 coats of clear, and baked in the oven for 30 min per the VHT web site. This pic is after 2 years of street & track use, they are now 5+ years old and look just the same.