Opinions sought, thinking about painting the brake calipers on my 2000 cabrio Artic Silver, turbo look 18's. Brake Calipers are currently black and immaculate, but i have this uncontrollable urge to paint them red, but had also considered yellow with Porsche stickers of course.
Any suggestions on the various paint kits, is this really a good idea? I believe the calipers are powder coated on the 2000 and being a proud / **** Porche owner i do take the wheels off the clean them when i detail the car.

Great Forum, have read the postings many times, informative and amusing, thought i would actually become a member.

Ecosse

 

red goes much better with the color of your car than yellow does - IMHO

 

yeah definitely go with red, where are you getting the stickers that say porsche from?

 

another vote for red....

 

I say do it right and powdercoat them red with PORSCHE lettering (no need for cheap stickers)
PM Sandoval or Eric Plug Guy here as they specialize in this

 

My 996 is GT Metallic Silver with Yellow calipers a la PCCB. I love them.
Also keep in mind that when you choose the color they will subtlely change the hue of silver you have.

 

Artic Silver and the Red would be sweet, then red accent on the steering wheel, red seat belts, and it all ties together.

 

What's the typical cost to paint these calipers? Is there a supplier that has an exchange setup?

 

I did a brembo swap. it was $550 plus core exchange.
if your in SoCal, I can hook you up with my contact.

 

correction: I can't rememebr if that was $550/pair of $550/set
I'll check tomorrow.

 

I have a guy who will powder coat and add the Porsche lettering complete for $400.00 "ALL 4"..... Let me know if you're interested. He's a bit "Old School" so he has no website etc. Send em' to me and I'll be more than happy to drop them off & pick them up.... In return he'll keep kicking me down with great prices for other things he does for me...

-Eli

 

Eli,

What is the turnaround time for your friend to do the work? Does this require dismantling the calipers?

Steve

 

Ecosse,

You can also just paint the ones you have with a two-stage caliper paint without disassembling the brakes. It's not the job taking a caliper apart and powdercoating would be, but for $40 it's worth a try. We've had very good luck with this product.

If anything, you can at least see what the alternate color looks like. Check it out......

http://www.tirerack.com/brakes/g2/caliper_paint.jsp

 

Eli,
pretty darn good deal! I might have a couple of customers for you too...

 

I used that paint on a 2000 Corvette C5 to make the calipers red. I will say that the paint is very durable and did not fade at all. However, the paint is put on with a brush and it's very thick (it dries quickly which means you have to work quickly and it will get thicker before you can finish all 4 brakes). This was fine for the Corvette because the calipers had a very rough finish on the metal of the calipers and it hid the less than perfect paint job. But the Porsche calipers are smooth and will show all the brush strokes and variances in paint thickness. So I don't think it will look as good.

But it might be worth a try before going the powder coat method if you are a skillful paint brusher, because it's cheap and can be done without removing anything but the wheel and masking the rest off. If it doesn't look good, just send them off to be blasted clean anyway since that's most likely what they were going to do to the original black paint anyway.

Would like to see close up/well lit/hi-res pics of somebody's Porsche calipers painted with this paint, if they exist...