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Good-luck with that! You really should do it right and take the rim off. Your probably going to mess up some of the plasti-dip anyway unless you have a really long brush or were a master at the game Operation!!
<p>Put in neutral and roll the car as you paint so you can fit your hand into the spokes!</p><p> </p><p>but in all seriousness,<img alt="Why Me" src="https://acurazine.com/forums/images/smilies/whyme.gif" style="height:15px; width:15px" title="Why Me" />. Lazyness always ends up with something bleeding.</p>
What you need to do is jack up the front and put jackstands behind both front wheels (at the proper jack points for safety's sake).
Get a brush (although i'd recommend a rattle can of spray paint and affix it to the rim and have the nozzle pointed toward the caliper. Tape down the nozzle, get a friend to go in the car and start it. Have her (not a him because their excess weight will throw this whole delicate process off) put the car into gear and keep it at a steady 7000 RPM, not less not more. This will ensure that the caliper will get a good coat of paint in. The centrifugal motion of the wheel will aid in the adhesion of the paint properly to the caliper. You'll need 4 cans for each wheel.
Don't do what I did and try to attach cans of paint to both front wheels at the same time. You gotta do one side at a time else they will counteract one another.
For the back wheels, I just attach cans of paint and drive down the freeway at 88 MPH. At that rate, the can of paint should run out in about 2 miles so you'll need to stop and replace cans.
Good luck and be sure to Go Pro the process so we can add it to the 3G garage
The most important part of any job is the prep. To effectively paint calipers that should be exceptionally clean. The only way to do this is remove the wheel, remove the caliper (you can leave line attached) , and remove pads. Thoroughly clean with solvent and brush (watch those rubber parts!) and then paint with something like G2 if it's still around. I did the rear calipers this way in 2006 (to match my front black brembos) and the G2 still looks great. Glossy black and no chipping/peeling.
If you paint through the rims its a hack job at best. Even if it looks OK for a while it will soon start to chip and peel. But then again I'm responding to a guy that plasti-dipped over his lug nuts (some offense)
Let me make it easier. Do not paint your stock calipers. Stock calipers should never have attention drawn to them. Dont touch them unless you plan on re doing the alloy color or going black. If you were thinking red then just stop while youre ahead.
What do you plan on doing when you have to rotate your tires soon, or get the balanced, etc.
Remove the whole suspension subassembly and swap with another pre-balanced set?
That's what I've been doing... Well not exactly. Whenever I need to rotate tires, I usually just get a new car. I've been negotiating in painted calipers at the dealer as a part of PDI. It works pretty well.
OP don't cut corners like a poor and try to do what you were asking. Do it right. Just trade in on a new ride.
Let me make it easier. Do not paint your stock calipers. Stock calipers should never have attention drawn to them. Dont touch them unless you plan on re doing the alloy color or going black. If you were thinking red then just stop while youre ahead.
This. If you paint your calipers, make sure the calipers are an authentic brand, first. Otherwise the calipers are guaranteed to collapse on themselves when pressing the brakes.
come on man, you totally forgot to plastidip the caliper when you did the wheel. Don't forget to plastidip the rotor too, the texture gives you extra stopping power
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