Painted Calipers
 

Hey guys just wondering what the average price to get calipers painted is and how long my car would be out of commission...can most people get this done in one day or what?

I doubt it for a one day job

gotta take it apart, then prep & paint......let it dry
and then back on the car

that's poser stuff. dont do it

what, it's not a bad idea....

powder coat don't paint. And it look sgreat alot of G37's have done this looks really good IMO

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it's generally looked at as someone who wants to look like they have a BBK. just my $0.02

^^^^^ it is a BBK on the sport package.

^^^ just owned someone....lol


they are BBK, non-sport are not worth painting

ok nevermind, forgot it was a nissan forum. cool go for it

um yeah how bout that bbk......lol (I have no idea what bbk stands for...im a noob)

BBK = Big Brake Kit

comes with the sports package

what people call BBK is something you drop over 5k on in aftermarket modification, not what ships with ur car. hence the poser argument

so brembo's are not bbk?

The OP's question was

Let's keep it on topic. He didn't ask "what You guys think about it?" . Let the owner of the car do w/e he likes to do!

So you're going to act elitist and say "oh, its just nissan lol I forgot".

Why are you on here in the first place?

And as far as pricing goes, you could purchase one of these: High Perf Caliper Paint Kit and just do it yourself, shouldn't be more than $20.

But that would probably chip over time, not to mention time consuming. If I were you I'd get them powdercoated, but of course that's a bit more expensive, I'm guessing around $100, probably less, but you'd be without a car for a few days.

I purchased the paint kit from NAPA and did it myself in one day. Drove the car the next day and I now have 30+K on them since I did it.

I painted mine (on a previous car), it was a 2-day thing with all the cleaning and high temp baking involved. I had to use the industrial ovens at work to get to the high temp needed. I wouldn't pay someone more than a couple hundred.

Do it right: powder coat.

Thanks for the advice guys. I think I am going to just send them out to get powder-coated...I dont want to see what it would look like if I painted it myself (I just learned how to color inside the lines...LOL)

Powder coating should run you about $570

Oh, and PS. To the guy who seems to think caliper painting is rice, go check out corvetteforum. There are tons of painted caliper threads, and not one person dissing them. But yeah, those corvette guys are real rice too *extreme sarcasm* :stfu:

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Local place in Omaha was only going to charge me $50 as long as I disassembled my calipers first...

$570??? :confused:

$50?! Not sure how that's possible with all the cleaning and prep.
I like cheap, but that seems tooo cheap. But the price I referred to is done by a top quality place, including:
Multiple cleaning stages, including ultrasonic
Quality certifications (ISO, QS)
Six Sigma quality standards
100% quality and leak testing
High quality powder coat, specifically for high temp applications.
And since it wasn't a local place, shipping charges

It was $50 per caliper, should throw that in there. They also do $50 per wheel, and they do the nice piston coatings too. Hell they do anything that involves powder coating.

I saw their work first hand on many things - they do a FANTASTIC job. You guys really need to get it out of your head that everything has to be expensive for a fantastic job. Pity I cant post a name, but here's a couple examples of their work.

Before:
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n...2/IMG_0324.jpg
After:
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n...2/IMG_0325.jpg

Before:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a96...urt/new002.jpg
After:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a96...urt/new012.jpg

Sorry dude, you will never be able to convince me that I should be paying $570 for something I could send these guys for a fraction of the price, and just as much quality. :)

Couple thoughts to that:
"just as much quality" is pretty debatable, since I don't know (and I imagine you may not know as of right now) what kind of certifications your place has, what their cleaning procedures are, what the quality is of the powder coat, and so on.

Also, you didn't mention the warranty of the work. This place was lifetime (original owner) guarantee.

That all being said, these are calipers for a nissan, get the best deal you can. When I was willing to spend top dollar for top quality, it was for a garage queen vette that doubled the price of the Z - a little more reason to assure the quality. And obviously, if I'm willing to spend 60k on a car, two hundred extra for assured quality was not a big deal.

Touche.

Personally Im a bargain hunter, and I like good quality at a great price. You wont see me spending more than I have to, really.

Anyway, as far as I know these guys had a lifetime warranty, but I never got anything done through them PERSONALLY so I don't know for sure.

I painted my own calipers on a couple of cars. I figured that I would scratch/chip the paint anyway. Besides, I like to do things myself. I used a kit from the Tire Rack. Seemed to work well for me.

Not a garage queen but a bit north of $60k.

Meh. I painted the brake calipers on both my Mustangs. Nothing fancy, though... just black. I hated that horrible untreated metal look. Just used some high-temp paint and it held up great for the life of the car.

Go powder coat...my guy does it for $20/caliper. real quality work..

Eastwood makes a quality product that I've used before. Here is the link

Powder coating is also a very good option, and it can stand up to some brutal treatment! A lot of guys in the custom truck scene powdercoat their entire suspension, and some even go so far as to do the entire frame!

1) Why in the world would anyone powdercoat pistons?
2) If you do it right, painted calipers can look alright, the problem is that it is very easy to cross the line into tacky, just pick the color carefully...

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I think the pistons shown are ceramic coated on the top and have an ant-friction coating on the skirts. I've had this done before. You need a very good shop to do this if you want the coatings to stick. Possibly the person who posted the piston photos was using this to show the capabilities of the shop.

Wow, I'm surprised you guys haven't heard of this....and yes, I was posting to show that the shop I know is VERY reputable :)

Shamelessly stolen from some powder coating shops website:

Its becoming a "must-have" when building an entirely forged bottom end, just because its a fairly cheap way to extend the life of your parts, along with the other nice side effects. Shop I know only charges $25 a piston.

See, I have had coated CP pistons in my last engine build, but you were talking about painting calipers and somehow you made the jump to thermal coating. Its not that we haven't heard about it, its just that no one calls it powdercoating pistons. It just really seemed like they were painting the pistons hehe my bad.

Oh lol - see, I thought the process was very similar - just what they bake onto the pistons isnt just a paint :). I never said I was a powdercoater sadly :( lol