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Old Dec 15, 2005 | 08:45 AM
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Colored calipers

Can you but already red painted calipers? And are they expensive? Or as an alternative, Is it hard to paint the stock ones????
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Old Dec 15, 2005 | 09:51 AM
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you would need to buy a big brake kit to have them already colored and yes it will be expensive, for the stock calipers you would need to have them powder coated to look good dont use the caliper spray paint
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Old Dec 15, 2005 | 12:29 PM
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I just painted my calipers blue using some kit that didn't have spray can, it was a brush, paint & cleaner. I don't think they turned out bad at all, i just took the wheel off, taped around it, cleaned and painted, didn't remove any part of breaks. Wasn't hard.
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Old Dec 15, 2005 | 12:35 PM
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ajent was the kit from duplicolor? Thats the one I used, and they came out pretty good!!! It took me about an hour for each caliper for 1st coat, dry, 2nd coat, dry, 3rd coat, and dry. This was on a lift at school.
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Old Dec 15, 2005 | 12:56 PM
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Yes it was. A lift huh? No such luck here, made good use of the car jack that came with the car so it takes forever.
When i baught the kit I saw somebody buying some kind of caliper paint that is eathier blue or clear in the day, and sunlight charges it, then at nite it illuminates eathier blue or whiteish, I didn't read much into it, but I'd like to find a pic of what it actually looks like.
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Old Dec 15, 2005 | 01:34 PM
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that sounds pretty cool.
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