Anyone good at it?
Can you paint the stock ones or do you need specific types?
How much labor and time is involved to disassemble, painting and drying, and reassembly?
Stop ricing out your Mazda.
I want to put this wing on it too!
Paint fades and chips, It cant really take the heat. If you did black (the only color you should do IMO on tiny stock brakes) you might be Ok, but it will still chip over time.
I’ve painted before, i just taped off and painted it while it was on… and didn’t disassemble i used the high heat paint from autozone… any paint that might spray onto rotors will come off anyway
then again i did this to a 93 del sol
dont cheap out…powdercoat them
Use a wire brush first to scrub the calipers so there’s no grease. Use a high heat caliper paint (you can tell it’s caliper paint because it says CALIPER PAINT on it). It’s as easy as changing brake pads, just leave the calipers on your car.
Does the base mazda 3 front calipers say MAZDA on them? If not I’d probably just leave them unpainted until you upgrade to mazdaspeed or racingbrake calipers…
No they don’t say MAZDA on them but they are visible through the wheels and on all 4 wheels so I thought about painting them. I am not racing this car at all so no point to upgrade to bigger ones.
shoulda bought a ford or something
Paint is super easy to do, but its going to chip and fade.
I suppose I can understand why one would paint his stock calipers black, but any other color and youre a ricer.
stock 99+ rx7 calipers come stock red, so do most porsches including the cayenne, and IIRC SLRs come stock red if the car is black?
I did the calipers on my Bird with just high-heat engine paint and it never chipped/faded or anything. Only issue I had was with the rears when I had to pull the axle and got brake-fluid on them; then it started to peel.
Removed them; plugged the port with a bolt. Scrubbed them down in a parts washer; then let them dry completely. Then masked everything off (piston & mounting surfaces); then alcohol’d them. Then self-etching primer; then like 4 or 5 coats of paint. Let that dry overnight; then installed them the next day. Took like 2 full days because of the drying time.
Damn those ricers over at Madza…
Forcing you into being a ricer!
Red is acceptable, but not preferred, as long as the caliper isnt a very standard looking POS.
Painted, single piston calipers look like ricer crap in any color other than black.
lol agreed. which is why i am painting mine black next week…
sometimes stock calipers just get nasty and need a coat if you have open wheels.
I recommend the G2 kits from ebay, they are easy to paint on and look great if you take your time… I have a post about it on here.
but I do agree that with small calipers go silver, gray, black, or something that won’t accent them.
Wire wheel brush, high temp engine enamel, masking tape. Been a few years now and neither sets on my cars have faded or chipped.
Can you just spray them after you brush them and clean them up or is there a big worry to not spray the pads and rotors?
I’ve done that in the past… the G2 kit is a million times easier to use and better since it’s a two part epoxy so it seals hard and smooth.
UHm… pull them off the car!!! then paint them…