Scooby Bloo

I was reding a thread the other night about someone who has painted their calipers Red with white lettering. Does anyone remember which thread it was. Showed some pictures as well.

Mentioned how he painted the lettering after a night out on the beer and hands were shaking

Thanks in advance if anyone recalls it.

Chip_Butty

Don't do it would be my advice. Too Escort Turbo/XR3/Nova/GTI

Do them in black with white lettering.

Or Gold (Eh Mr Loo is)

Ant

dhorwich

here is what mine look like:









Other thread here:

http://www.scoobynet.co.uk/bbs/threa...hreadid=136403

Dan

Chip_Butty

You don't paint your toe nails in your spare time by any chance do you

Imprezive

i did mine in red, and IMHO- it looks pants behind gold rims,
come to think of it, my gold rims look pants too,lol.

dhorwich

good job my wheels are silver then...!!

And no i dont paint my toe nails.... well, only at weekends..

Dan

scoobyfella

Hi Dan,

What paint did you use, proper caliper paint or just heat resistant metal paint. I did a car a few yrs ago with proper stuff but if you don't do it all in a couple of days after mixing it goes off. I did me last car with car plan heat resistant paint 3-4 coats just as good, and then now and again stick another coat on, dead cheap too.

Also when you painted them did you take out the pads and disconnect the caliper or, paint them carefully while they were in place.

Cheers for any help.

James

SilverSmith

look here also http://www.scoobynet.co.uk/bbs/threa...hreadID=148438

harvey

iTrader: (48)

Brake caliper paint in various colours available from Halfords.

ScoobyJawa

I used the Foliatek stuff from Halfords - about 20 quid.

Its a bit fiddly but not too bad. The red with silver lettering looks superb on my DGM scoob (mines the one in the link in dans post) with silver alloys.

also see here

The main reason for painting mine is I was aware the callipers were in a bad way, and were corroding, so I used the paint to get a protective coating on them. You can see the bad pitting in the link above.......

cheers
Neil.

p1 tud

try motorbike tyre name paint pens, they are available in white gold and silver, i used red hammerite and the silver pen and it looks ace, hope this helps ya.

dhorwich

I used halfords high temperature paint, and carfully painted them while they where on the car... and gave it a couple of coats....

Dan

Scooby Bloo

Cheers for the feedback fellas, going for red calipers with white lettering Seen a pic of a 22B with gold alloys and red calipers
with white lettering, looks the MUTTS NUTS

martin850

iTrader: (51)

Dhorwich what year is your scooby and is it an import? I have an my95 imported wrx and my calipers don't look like yours and for some strange reason they have misubushi emblem on them!!!!!