# Caliper Painting
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [March 16, 2009, 7:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569 "2009-03-16T07:43:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 7:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/1 "2009-03-16T07:43:41Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 7:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/2 "2009-03-16T07:56:21Z")
Stop ricing out your Mazda.
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 8:03am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/3 "2009-03-16T08:03:59Z")
> [@maxwell](#):
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> Stop ricing out your Mazda.
I want to put this wing on it too!
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### Author:  [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 8:06am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/4 "2009-03-16T08:06:25Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@micah](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/micah)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 8:07am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/5 "2009-03-16T08:07:50Z")
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
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### Author:  [@d3x](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/d3x)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 8:12am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/6 "2009-03-16T08:12:46Z")
dont cheap out…powdercoat them
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### Author:  [@khoveraki](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/khoveraki)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 8:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/7 "2009-03-16T08:14:50Z")
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…
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 8:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/8 "2009-03-16T08:24:21Z")
> [@khoveraki](#):
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> 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.
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> 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.
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### Author:  [@khoveraki](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/khoveraki)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 8:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/9 "2009-03-16T08:28:14Z")
> [@boxxa](#):
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> I am not racing this car at all
☹ shoulda bought a ford or something
😉
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### Author:  [@ZOMGVTEK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ZOMGVTEK)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 8:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/10 "2009-03-16T08:29:00Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@khoveraki](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/khoveraki)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 8:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/11 "2009-03-16T08:36:11Z")
> [@ZOMGVTEK](#):
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> Paint is super easy to do, but its going to chip and fade.
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> 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?
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### Author:  [@97FormulaWS-6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97FormulaWS-6)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/12 "2009-03-16T08:46:18Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@ZOMGVTEK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ZOMGVTEK)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 8:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/13 "2009-03-16T08:49:02Z")
> [@khoveraki](#):
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> 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?
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.
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 8:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/14 "2009-03-16T08:56:05Z")
Painted, single piston calipers look like ricer crap in any color other than black.
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### Author:  [@XwalkerX](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/XwalkerX)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/15 "2009-03-16T10:39:20Z")
> [@newman](#):
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> 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…
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### Author:  [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 10:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/16 "2009-03-16T10:44:00Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Superium](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Superium)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 11:21am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/17 "2009-03-16T11:21:47Z")
Wire wheel brush, high temp engine enamel, masking tape. Been a few years now and neither sets on my cars have faded or chipped.
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### Author:  [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 11:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/18 "2009-03-16T11:24:53Z")
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?
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### Author:  [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 11:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/19 "2009-03-16T11:25:55Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@97FormulaWS-6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97FormulaWS-6)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2009, 12:50pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/caliper-painting/64569/20 "2009-03-16T12:50:44Z")
> [@boxxa](#):
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> 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?
UHm… pull them off the car!!! then paint them…
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