Which red for calipers?
26 April 2011, 09:48 PM
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Which red for calipers?
Anyone know what red paint to use for 4 pot calipers. Or colour code etc. Want to keep it same colour as standard.
26 April 2011, 11:08 PM
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Nice one, cheers guys looks spot on, not much difference between the two will buy whichever one is available in my local halfords.
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26 April 2011, 11:45 PM
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gotta agree with the halfords high temp paint, used hammerite before maybe i didn't do it right or enough coats but the red seemed to fade after awhile. But last time i used the Halfords High temp paint and it keeps it's glossy look quite well.
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28 April 2011, 11:13 AM
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As nice (but very unlikely) as that would be, I really need to concentrate on making some proper ducting to cool the front brakes. The new 300 circuit is an absolute killer and I seem to have somewhat cooked the calipers. They used to be a lovely gold colour but now have turned brown 
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Does it not have to be VHT paint.
No mate, a caliper is full of brake fluid, remember. If it reached any sort of high temperature, it would boil off the fluid.
Hammerite is fine.
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28 April 2011, 11:54 AM
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Can't.
Alls I can say is Hammerite has been fine on EVERY caliper I've ever painted with it, which includes those I bought for the front of my Scoob, the Brembos I bought for the rear, those on the front of my lad's Clio 197 sport, (also Brembos), those on my youngest's Corsa SRi, those on my eldest's old Ibiza, those on two Saxo VTR's owned by the youngest, etc etc.
No discolouration and used red, blue and green colours.
None of them have ever been tracked, mind.
Alls I can say is Hammerite has been fine on EVERY caliper I've ever painted with it, which includes those I bought for the front of my Scoob, the Brembos I bought for the rear, those on the front of my lad's Clio 197 sport, (also Brembos), those on my youngest's Corsa SRi, those on my eldest's old Ibiza, those on two Saxo VTR's owned by the youngest, etc etc.
No discolouration and used red, blue and green colours.
None of them have ever been tracked, mind.
28 April 2011, 08:06 PM
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Hammerite fine on mine, even tho I overheated the fronts so much and so often that I took the laquer off the wheels. Had the wheels powder coated now to prevent it happening again, but the Hammerited calipers are fine.
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07 May 2011, 09:57 PM
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I've seen plenty of calipers painted with hammerite and (under heavy) use it either discolours (at best) or just melts and leaves a right mess everywhere, meaning you have to do the whole job again. Waste of time and money imo.
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