Rear Brakes - paint and rotors

Dalamar · Sep 29, 2006

Hey all, I just painted my rear brakes and put on the Baer Rotors to go with my fronts.
Thought U'd wanna C some pix.

Stock is beautiful:

Prep for paint i hit it good with a wire wheel on my grinder.
Took off the pad outer bracket, did the piston section still attached.

Got some high temp paint.
The only had silver, black or red in they're "caliper" paint.
So i got this wheel paint, and a clear. 8)

I painted each with 3 coats of color, then 3 coats of clear, dry 1 day, and reassembe.

Put it together, remounted (which was kindof a PITA with the ebrake cable right in front of the bottom hole.

I'm happy with how it turned out!!

jpajkos · Sep 30, 2006

Dal those looks sweet. Are those the stock calipers painted? Im going to do that to the rears myself. Im also going to go with the Mach 1 brakes up front.

Dalamar · Sep 30, 2006

That will be sweet.

yes that's my stockers painted.

TxCobrA98 · Sep 30, 2006

awesome job dalamar! they loook amazing. i love that blue and the two different colors look subtle but reallly nice. great job! :thumb: :thumb: :thumb:

thorco3 · Sep 30, 2006

that looks fricken sweet dalamar. I dunno if I ever discussed my final decision with ya. I'm going to end up getting a set of brembo's... it's a lot of money, but I like spending it on my car... so it's justifiable right. You had already sent me a pic of those rear rotors those are sweet. What size is that rotor, i guess it's still a 10.5 or whatever the stock size is

that looks a lot like how i painted my stock calipers, but i used black and red... not to hijack ur thread or anything

[attachment deleted by admin] SORRY HAD TO CLEAR ROOM

thorco3 · Sep 30, 2006

as soon as i sell my wheels i will be upgrading the brakes... the rears might stay stock for a little while though, cause the fronts are gonna drain my pocket book :hammer:

Dalamar · Sep 30, 2006

Thanks TXcobra

Thanks Thorco.
Those brakes will be sweet. It makes the car feel awsome, my friend AZRoush has them on his car.
It's his favorite upgrade, and he has a ton done to the car.

your brakes look nice too. Good idea on the 2 tone 'wink'

Matt94GT · Sep 30, 2006

Dal you should also post this in the HOW TO section

Good write up those turned out awesome.

SvtBlack95 · Oct 1, 2006

yea they deff turned out hot

Lightning Struck · Oct 1, 2006

wow great Job

97Stang · Oct 1, 2006

badass painting! After seeing those, Yep, its def. time to repaint mine!

Dalamar · Oct 1, 2006

thanks guys.

They turned out better than I thought they would.

Definately do the clear coat!

thorco3 · Oct 2, 2006

guess i must have just skimmed the whole thing, cause i didn't even realize that you had cleared them too. I had never even thought of such an idea...

i'm really torn here. I originally wanted to just do a cobra front 13" upgrade... then when they were out of stock everywhere got to looking at other options and decided I could swing the brembo kit. now that the cobra calipers are back in stock I just don't know which setup i want. Either way i've decided on brembo slotted rotors front and back... but can't decide on which calipers to get. I could get the cobras and put a lil money else where... or i could just get the brembos which are simply

imp2:

sooo torn :'(