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Old 03-13-2015, 03:27 PM
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Default Paint or powder coat your calipers?

For those of you who wanted a different color/look for your calipers, what did you do? Paint? Powder coat? If you would share your suggestions and/or experiences, that would be great. Photos of the results would also be appreciated. Thank you.
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curious what color are you thinking of?
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I am pretty sure that powder coating would be the way to go.
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Originally Posted by Grunty
I am pretty sure that powder coating would be the way to go.
+1 can't go wrong with powder coating. The only way I'd do it.

Regardless, it's a big project removing them and doing any finishing work.
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I agree given the temps and conditions these operate under, PC seems much more resilient than painting (which would require special paint anyway IMO)
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Powder coated tips, stems, center caps.
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Lookup Ben right here on RL "BPG_Austin" Did an excellent job on my calipers. Pretty much any color available. T
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Originally Posted by 77tony
Lookup Ben right here on RL "BPG_Austin" Did an excellent job on my calipers. Pretty much any color available. T
What color did you do? Picture? Did he put the logos back on there too?
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Will post pics, etc when I get back home on Sun. T
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Thanks, guys.

Originally Posted by Larry Cable
curious what color are you thinking of?
I am thinking about something that blends in with satin wheels.
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these guys do excellent work !

http://thepowdercoater.com
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Powder coat. CCP Coatings in Detroit.

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Originally Posted by STG991
What color did you do? Picture? Did he put the logos back on there too?
Realize yellow normally signifies ceramic's but went with yellow because it looked great with the Nordic Gold. Picked up Porsche stencils on ebay and ben@rpmaustin.com laid them on the Wilwood calipers. T
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Originally Posted by 77tony
Realize yellow normally signifies ceramic's but went with yellow because it looked great with the Nordic Gold. Picked up Porsche stencils on ebay and ben@rpmaustin.com laid them on the Wilwood calipers. T
Nice!

Thought you did them on the 50th!
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Just got pics yesterday from my powder coater. My rotors are ready!









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