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That is in your face blue. Awesome.
I'm planning to go with blue on the white car with black wheels and yellow on the black car.
Any recommendations on shops who the caliper painting for a fair price and quality work?!
That is in your face blue. Awesome.
I'm planning to go with blue on the white car with black wheels and yellow on the black car.
Any recommendations on shops who the caliper painting for a fair price and quality work?!
This Blue will look good on a white car with black wheels 👍🏼 I have riviera blue on the white 964 with black wheels , here's a picture
Ahhh, we have similar taste. That looks great. Thank you for the assurance. Now I know for a fact I want to do this and this mod just moved up on the list of things to do.
Definitely red with a black car, don't worry that it's a NB.
As for rebuilding, if you do a brake fluid flush with ATE TYP 200 every two or even three years your calipers will last more or less indefinitely. It is corrosion not wear that cause problems. And if your calipers need rebuilding why not your master cylinder?
I would stick to an OEM color; red, silver, yellow or even stay black. More important than the color choice is the quality of the refinish. Powder coating is the best option but that requires full disassembly and replacement of the bits due to the high temp.
Due to high temp of what; the powder coating process?
How about just chipping off the larger flakes of the clear coat and overspraying them with a little urothane clear spray from the DIY store. The clear will wick under the remaining chip edges and produce a nearly as new finish. Best part is you don't even need to remove the calipers to do this. Just clean them off with electronic motor cleaner, mask the wheel well with a little paper and spray. As a side benefit doing this also seals the bleeder screw caps keeping the bleeder screw threads nice and corrosion free.
I would stick to an OEM color; red, silver, yellow or even stay black. More important than the color choice is the quality of the refinish. Powder coating is the best option but that requires full disassembly and replacement of the bits due to the high temp.
I don't have personal experiencie with powder coating, I always thought the finish was "rough" or fishy skin type, but I know it can be finished in a smooth texture.
However, if done profesionally, a urethane paint/claer coat will do the job perfect as well. It will hold a lot of heat, abuse and cycles, but as we know, heavily tracked cars will suffer sooner or later of paint problems on their brake calipers regardless what method you use to paint them (unless you go natural color or the like anodize process)
I went from std. black calipers to red in my C2 as the clear coat was peeled off as well.
Originally Posted by bella1
When I did my Targa, I used paint remover to clean all the clear away. The black powder coating was not impacted by the process. Wet sanded with 1500 grit. Then I bought the 1000 degree clear and stickers from Suncoast. Check them in this FS Ad I posted some time ago. I vote for stock color.
Stickers does work perfect for regular use of the car (most street usage) and very light trackdays, also they look at any angle and mid distance like OEM painted letters, but a very close look up you will notice they are stickers on the caliper that protude over the paint once the clear coat seal it with th rest of the paint. I have done many calipers this way.
I chose to go with white letters (template) for my red caliper in my C2, but for my set of Brembo on my Skyline GTR I was lazy to go through this process and used vinyl letters diectly on them, but this car is heavily tracked and sees a lot of heat, so the vinyl bubbles up a bit and later the red dot burned a bit with a blackish color....so if OP will track his 993 I wll advise him to go just like I did with my red calipers and avoid this probem.
Originally Posted by pp000830
How about just chipping off the larger flakes of the clear coat and overspraying them with a little urothane clear spray from the DIY store. The clear will wick under the remaining chip edges and produce a nearly as new finish. Best part is you don't even need to remove the calipers to do this. Just clean them off with electronic motor cleaner, mask the wheel well with a little paper and spray. As a side benefit doing this also seals the bleeder screw caps keeping the bleeder screw threads nice and corrosion free.
I did this in my big reds 993tt, works OK, it hides the peeled off look at first glance, but upon closer inspection (if you are a dick about details and have eye of eagle then.....well you know) you will see this" band aid".
01-09-2016, 09:28 PM
