Kevin in Atlanta

Repainting the calipers and would like some advice on the paint used?

And who has the decals?

Thanks.

Tom in Austin

What color are you planning to use?

Ducman82

i used VHT black caliper paint. works great. decals from ebay i think

Kevin in Atlanta

Red.

Gary Knox

I really ONLY like the true Epoxy paints (2 part) for calipers. Do a google search for expxy caliper paint.

Anything else I've used does not withstand brake cleaner, or strong detergent cleaning.

Gary-

GeorgeM

WRT decals or stencils, I've only seen the later model, thin script, like what's on a GTS.

Has anyone seen the thicker, S4/GT style script?

Kevin in Atlanta

Decals.

kelanel

hooked on cars has the peel off stencils if you care to do a multi stage paint:

http://marketplaceadvisor.channeladv...39&i=251963407

good luck on ebay otherwise.

Gary Knox

I had trouble getting the stencils to work on the Epoxy paint. I used stencils there, measured the size of the OE paint letters (before sanding the OE paint on the caliper), and found essentially the same size decals in white (for the red S4 and GTS brakes I rebuilt and repainted) on eBay.

Gary--

928er

I just did this on Saturday. There are 2 types that I've seen. Spray on, and brush on. I removed the calpipers, scrubbed them, and scuffed them with 220 grit sand paper, I used the duplicolor ceramic caliper spray paint. It is easy to work with, and drying time is nice. under an hour to dry and 3 hours till you can handle them. Full cure takes 7 days. I can post later how it holds up.

Ed Scherer

I used G2 caliper paint and was pretty happy with it. Still looking good almost 10 years later. You need to work fast, though, to avoid the paint thickening too much, which will cause brush strokes to be visible.

Unfortunately, I can't compare it to spray paint, as I haven't done sprayed calipers myself (although I've spray painted rotor hats with VHT high temp ("FlameProof") paint and clear and that held up well, too).

I just noticed that Eagle Day sells some of this stuff.

Rob Edwards

I have done a lousy job painting 2 different sets of calipers, one with epoxy paint and one with VHT caliper paint so I wouldn't dare give any advice on painting. I will put in a plug for the 'PORSCHE' stencils sold here: http://www.europdr.com/caliperstencil.htm

Despite my lack of painting skills they turned out pretty well:






eeeo

Kevin in Atlanta

Made up my mind. Two part epoxy and stencils. G2 caliper paint offers an aerosol spray paint attachment. PO used a brush to apply the red now on the calipers. I can see the paint marks.

I have half a mind to return to stock (black). Car and wheels are both black now. Decisions...

Tom in Austin

I need to touch up my Big Reds, anyone know how close a color match I can get with one of these products?

The G2 'orange' looks somewhat like it on the monitor. Duplicolor's red does not look like it ...

Rob Edwards

If you're referring to the Preval sprayers they show on their website, don't bother- The epoxy paint is very thick, and those prevals were clog-city after about 5 seconds of spraying. It may have been (was?) too cold the day I tried to use them with G2 paint, but they were laughably bad.

Here's my experience with them:

https://rennlist.com/forums/928-foru...not-to-do.html