Painted my calipers today

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 11:34 pm

kenny wrote:
mckeann wrote:poof
Moderator! ban this monster!

Looks good to me Des, ignore the gimps.

Yes, moderator ban this caliper painting fool...

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:50 am

John Reid wrote:
kenny wrote:
mckeann wrote:poof
Moderator! ban this monster!

Looks good to me Des, ignore the gimps.
Yes, moderator ban those tyre tippex'ing fools...

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:20 am

dezzy wrote:
John Reid wrote:
kenny wrote: Moderator! ban this monster!

Looks good to me Des, ignore the gimps.
Yes, moderator ban those tyre tippex'ing fools...

Big hug...

Dominic · Post by **Dominic** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:05 am

kenny wrote:
mckeann wrote:poof
Moderator! ban this monster!
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Calipers look

BiggestNizzy · Post by **BiggestNizzy** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:32 am

If there is rust under the paint it will just come back through. Ideally you would want to remove the calliper shotblast it and then paint. or strip it down send it to me wait 6 months while I design and manufacture some nice aluminium numbers (it would be a home job when I get spare time) and get them anodised.

dezzy · Post by **dezzy** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:42 am

BiggestNizzy wrote:If there is rust under the paint it will just come back through. Ideally you would want to remove the calliper shotblast it and then paint. or strip it down send it to me wait 6 months while I design and manufacture some nice aluminium numbers (it would be a home job when I get spare time) and get them anodised.

The calipers ain't rusty. But the inside of the disks are. Will just re-paint if it comes back through (unless it comes back through really quickly!)

steve_weegie · Post by **steve_weegie** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:56 am

BiggestNizzy wrote:If there is rust under the paint it will just come back through. Ideally you would want to remove the calliper shotblast it and then paint. or strip it down send it to me wait 6 months while I design and manufacture some nice aluminium numbers (it would be a home job when I get spare time) and get them anodised.

Sounds

If you came up with some nice 2 pot ones for the back i'll take some in anodised red please!

mckeann · Post by **mckeann** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:01 pm

honestly. you should be wearing out your discs before they have a chance to rust. I repeat the comment by my learned friend, 'S2poof'

RDH · Post by **RDH** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:22 pm

Dezzy
I like it!

Andy G · Post by **Andy G** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:48 pm

quiet weekend mate????

As long as it keeps you happy

The red ones on the RLC are blistering and looked pretty shafted after a few rounds of donkey punches. No idea when they were done, looks like years back, I didn't even notice it .

bertieduff · Post by **bertieduff** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 2:09 pm

Shocking behaviour...

CSK_423 · Post by **CSK_423** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:35 pm

another idea would have been to paint the full caliper black and instead of the silver template with silver paint being pressed against the lettering, let the paint dry then just run a file down across the caliper taking the paint off the raised letters.

Either way I like it

Post by **campbell** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:42 pm

Dezzy,

Nice job. Often thought about painting my own calipers, Lisa's Golf's have the red finish and on a black car behind some bling wheels it does look quite pimpy and groovy

The silver detailing of Lotus is a nice touch. Yellow detail on black background would also be quite something I think.

For me I think I'd go with a gunmetal paint however. My temptation is blue, but that is too Fabia vRS I think so must resist at all costs

Campbell

PS - how do you manage to make sure you park with Lotus showing through the spokes every time

Victor Meldrew · Post by **Victor Meldrew** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:43 pm

CSK_423 wrote:another idea would have been to paint the full caliper black and instead of the silver template with silver paint being pressed against the lettering, let the paint dry then just run a file down across the caliper taking the paint off the raised letters.

Either way I like it

Wire brush works just as well... not that I would know...

ExigeKen · Post by **ExigeKen** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:45 pm

campbell wrote: PS - how do you manage to make sure you park with Lotus showing through the spokes every time

He's a IAM driver