Caliper Painting

[VwSweetHeart]

Ok, so here's the deal.
Me and a friend are looking to paint our calipers but not your everyday color.(blue,red,yellow,black or silver) Looking to buy hot pink and purple. I'm having a hard time finding a high heat/caliper paint in these colors. VHT Paint carries it but I can't seem to find a store that carries VHT in the 2 colors listed.

I was told High Performance Coating has just what I need. I stopped by there but all the have is normal paint that they can mix up in whatever color I wanted.

Now I guess the real question is did all of you use actual "caliper paint" or "high heat paint"? HPC said their paint its good up to 220* Degrees. Would this normal paint work to paint our calipers?
What would do you recommend?

TIA!

[100%VAGitarian]

Re: Caliper Painting

go to advance auto body supplies. ask them to mix up the color you want in a high heat engine paint formula. done. dodge had panther pink, for an example, so the colors are there.

[VW337]

Re: Caliper Painting

I went to advance auto body supplies today and they don't mix high heat paints. I also called High Performance Coatings and they don't do high heat paint other than black. Any other suggestions of somewhere local?

[VwSweetHeart]

Re: Caliper Painting

I know you can get VHT Caliper spray paint on ebay and that seems to be the only place I could find it in any color.
I also found some engine paint at Canadian tire but a spray as well. Thinking thats the way Im going to go.
If you do find any other places though Id love to know where too.

[Wildfire]

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When you do paint, post lots of pics how you did it. I want to paint mine soon....

[VwSweetHeart]

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Hopefully I will be painting mine in the next couple of weeks and Ill make sure to take a bunch of pics and even do a small diy if it turns out.lol.

When you do paint, post lots of pics how you did it. I want to paint mine soon....

What color are you thinking of doing?

[popp]

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My body shop is looking into getting some made

[Wildfire]

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Car is Silver. It prob gonna be red...
I need to change my rear brakes in the next couple of weeks, so might co-inside it with that....

Hopefully I will be painting mine in the next couple of weeks and Ill make sure to take a bunch of pics and even do a small diy if it turns out.lol.




What color are you thinking of doing?

[100%VAGitarian]

Re: Caliper Painting

I went to advance auto body supplies today and they don't mix high heat paints. I also called High Performance Coatings and they don't do high heat paint other than black. Any other suggestions of somewhere local?

o rly? well thanks for clearing that up. i personally haven't had them mix it for me either. i just figured it was something they could do.

[luunta]

Re: Caliper Painting

you should get double rainbow coloured calipers.

that'd be so intense.

oh my god.

you wouldn't even be able to capture it on your camera.

so intense. all the way.

[vteclol]

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i'm just ordering some online and picking it up in the states, seems easy enough

[popp]

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i'm just ordering some online and picking it up in the states, seems easy enough

kim kim kim, can't wait for nothing.......

talk to Tyler, he has all the info needed to get it made locally

[VwSweetHeart]

Re: Caliper Painting

kim kim kim, can't wait for nothing.......

talk to Tyler, he has all the info needed to get it made locally

Hey, I want this info too please!!!

[VW337]

Re: Caliper Painting

Got the paint from Smith Mcleay Coatings, it comes in part and A and B and you mix them 1:1. They had a ton of colors to choose from and it only took them 10min to mix it for me. We cleaned the brake calipers with a scrub brush and some spray nine, then we roughed them up a bit with some sandpaper and then cleaned them with wax/grease remover. Next we masked off the parts we didn't want to paint. Then we brushed the paint on and waited until the paint was tacky before we applied the second coat. I think it came out pretty good:

[passtgt]

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endura is good stuff! nice work ladys