Brake caliper paint ?

[Whaler]

I bought some high temp manifold in silver and plan on painting my brake calipers, will this hold up?
It says its good to 1200F

Funny directions...." Best to apply two light coats than one heavy coat ".........then it says to "apply the second coat within one hour after the first coat has hardened for 3-4 days"

Can we take that to mean apply second coat within one hour of first and that the whole apllication is hard after 3-4 days??

Tim

[mr0077]

Whaler, I guess they mean to put on the second coat between 73 and 97 hours after the first coat...funny stuff...
Say, this reminds me...seems I read a caution about painting calipers with just any old hi-temp paint...you gotta use a non-insulating hi-temp paint. Would the heat insulating qualities of an "ordinary" hi-temp paint cause heat dissipation problems in the caliper? If so, where do you get brake caliper paint?

[kountzecobra]

VHT makes a paint designed specifically for brake calipers, rotors, and drums. I have seen it in black, red, aluminum, and yellow. Jeg's and Summit should have it. Later, David.

[Mr.Fixit]

The emissivity (of infared radiation) depends on the color of the surface. Black loses heat fast, silver retains heat longer. I remember hearing somewhere that a flat black surface is 10 times more efficieant at allowing heat to escape than a polished surface (no source of info). Which makes me wonder why people get billit calipers that are shiny. But then again, porsche paints theirs red, corvettes are left natural aluminum color, mine are rusty.

[Excaliber]

MrFixit,,,I to have heard the same thing in reference to color of paint. Radiators are generally black for a reason, for instance. My new Wilwoods are black, replacing my old "polished" shiny units. I need "go" more than "show".

Ernie

[Steve R]

Ernie,
I think you meant "more WHOA, than show"....
As in WHOAAA GIRL!, WHOAAAAAAA!

[Roscoe]

Eastwood has the two part, self leveling, caliper paint like you see on Porsche, Ferrari, etc. Comes in yellow, red, blue, silver and black. $47.99 each kit that will do 4 calipers.

http://www.eastwoodcompany.com

Roscoe

[Excaliber]

good one,,,,,more WHOAAA than show

lol, Ernie

[A Snake]

I guess I'm nuts, but why paint them in the first place? Unless you take a wheel off at shows or something, nobody will ever see them anyway and you won't live long enough for them to rust or oxidize badly enough to damage them. The only way anyone could see much of them is if you had some really funky spoked wheels. Even wire wheels are hard to see through.

I was pretty particular in building my car, but other than having the chassis powder coated, I left the mechanicals alone. Besides, it's just something else to clean. Just an opinion

[Whaler]

I only am doing this so they won't possibly rust. Not that it will see much wet weather.

I think on the trigo's I have, they are somewhat spoked enough to see the calipers......now I have to go and look in the shop.....lol
Since the car came home the wheels have never been back on the car and its still up on stands......8 months and counting.....lol



I hate to see rust anywhere.

Yes they are and here's a pic.......

Tim

[Bob Putnam]

The color of the caliper has minimal influence on their ability to dissipate heat. The body of a caliper will rarely get above 400F, even under racing conditions. Compared with the heat removed from air convection, the radiation factor is small.

Paint 'em whatever color you want - although I would discourage mauve.