My new to me Panamera should be delivered to me within a week. I want to paint the calipers red. Few questions....

What is the best/easiest way to do this?
What color red is standard?
Where is the best place to get the supplies? Is their a kit?
Where do I get the "Porsche" stickers or whatever it is that makes up the lettering on the side?

Can someone fill me in on all this! Thanks!!

P.S. I went through 24 pages and couldn't find answers.

 

Go to autozone and get the 'duplicolor metal cast' spray paint. Its the metallic high heat stuff that has two steps. You buy a silver ground coat as the undercoat and then the top coat you choose whatever color you want. Its not specifically advertised as caliper paint, but its rated for even higher temperatures than some calipers paints.

The easiest way to do this job is to not even take anything off other than the rims. Turn the wheel and take off the rim. Cover all the stuff that could possibly be oversprayed onto with tape and newspaper. You don't have to worry too much about the surface of the rotor, as it will be burned off within the first couple minutes of driving. Then do a couple good coats, starting from the silver base coat. Follow the directions. I think you have to wait for it to dry or 'bake in the sun' for an X amount of time. After its dry, stick on a Porsche sticker that you got from online. Then add a top layer of the high heat clear coat.

Your all done! Ive done this to both my corvette and lexus, and it has turned out great. 60k miles later, the Lexus ones are still perfect and 30k miles later the corvette ones are still nearly perfect (other than the serious amount of stuck on brake dust!).

Don't buy into and of the expensive 'caliper kits'. They are nothing more than relabeled cheaper paints. The only better way to do it is powder coating, and that's not so much of a DIY job.

... If you cannot get the right angles to get all of the caliper, without taking them off then you will have to take them off. The easiest thing to do would be to get a small box that's just big enough for you to place the calipers on, without having to disconnect the brake line. So you take them off the rotor, but keep the brake line on and just place the calipers on the box and go from there. I had to do this for the Corvette but not for the Lexus.

I couldn't find better pictures on my computer, but here are the results:

 

Thanks for the response. Where did you order your decals?

 

Almost forgot...nice pics!!

 

Goto ebay and search for something like "porsche caliper sticker" and its under $10.

 

What size caliper decals are you buying? I know the backs are smaller than the fronts.

 

I can't recall what size they are. I know all four are the same size. I will have to check when I get home. I got silver decals to match the color of the car. Ordered them from a guy that sells them on Ebay that another forum member recommended. I plan to do the project this weekend.

 

Keep me posted. I eyeballed the decays and the rear is def smaller than the fronts. I just couldn't go in to get exact measurements. Just ordered G2 paint. Waiting for confirmation before ordering decals.

 

https://www.6speedonline.com/forums/...-calipers.html

 

2thDoctor, I will have exact measurements and more info on the decals for you today. Sorry for the delay.

 

Thanks! G2 paint just came in today. Itching to paint!

 

No update quite yet. This is a bigger project than I anticipated. I decided to take the calipers completely off to thoroughly clean them etc. It is taking forever. I will continue working on it tomorrow and update asap.
Any recommendation besides caliper cleaner spray to clean these things?