Painted the Calipers on my Father-in-law's TBird this weekend.

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teacher321

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Well, my Sunday project was to do something about the nasty looking calipers on my Father-In-Law's '03 Thunderbird. I used the Caliper Paint kit from G2 Manufacturing. It's a brush on application. I think it turned out great! Here are some before, during and after pics.



Oh, and ignore the dirty car. The Bird is in need of a bath.



TBird Caliper Pics
 
Cool, was thinking of doing it. how was the paint to work with? Was it thick enough were it didn't run off the edges?
 
Brian --I also used the red G2 on my Miata--Mica Green--really great product to use. Physically was able to paint each caliper w/o taking off pads--real EZ to do--and really adds a nice look. Since the G2 stuff is epoxy based, allows a quick clean up in normal wheel/tire wash sequence.



I don't know how your efforts went but I had paint enuf to do two coats and could have done another car.



Some people may want to use outside; I did mine in the garage and even with the door up, I had had enuf epoxy by the time I was done. Really about a 30-45 min job--start to finish. Great "image" return for the time and cost invested.
 
I agree, Joe. The prep of getting them clean was the longest part of the whole thing. I too had enough paint that after 3 coats, which is how many I put one, I could have done a second car... if it were already to go, up on stand with the wheels pulled off and prepped.



I33, the paint is thick where even though I had a drop cloth, there were no drips from run off. Now, you do have to start out with a thin coat and make sure it is even so that you don't get any runs in the final product, but that is with anything you paint.



I've used this stuff on my Camaro as well and loved the results. Pics of that are in my link below.
 
I did mine last weekend too. I used a new kit by Plexi Kote <sp?>. It was only $15. Best money I've ever spent. It was so easy and fun! I got the kit from Advanced Auto Parts.
 
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