Painted Brake Calipers This appearance modification is really easy, but time consuming. |
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Here's a profile shot of my SS before any calipers had been painted. Looks good already if I don't say so myself :) |
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You'll need to get some sort of plastic wrap now. I used plastic grocery sacks for this. (Crkhedmat gave me the grocery sack idea). Put one sack over the whole rotor, and tuck in the edges of the bag into the space between the caliper and the rotor. I also covered the outside of my caliper so just the main chunk of the caliper would get painted (see this photo. the yellow section is what I covered with the plastic bags, the red section is what gets painted). Click on the image to the left to see where to tuck the bags in. Go ahead and do this for the other wheel thats jacked up. |
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Next, place any plastic wrap over anything else you don't want painted. As you can see, I just blocked off a bit of the body panel on the edge of the wheel well. Again, do this for the other wheel. |
In my opinion this mod really enhanced the appearance of my car, and since the calipers are fairly small and behind the wheels, its not too cheezy looking. I'm very glad I found paint to match the red SS logos perfectly.
Pics with painted calipers:
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![]() Back wheel |
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Here's a concept mockup of how I might paint brake calipers on a Red Firehawk with yellow firehawk decals. The yellow surface is the portion that won't be painted in the instructions above. Again, its just an idea.
![]() Red/Yellow 2 color brake caliper idea |