Show us your painted calipers

[nickows]

Painted your calipers? Show 'em off here

I'll get the ball rolling

Before (caliper has been cleaned prior to painting):


After:

[mpssylo]

wow,you've done an awesome job their mate,looks great!

[blackbetty]

ok heres mine, dont look nearly as sexy as Nicks, but if I had sexy looking brakes it would detract from the coolness of my black car

Painted with several coats of matt black, then several coats of gloss black, grey/silver mazda brake decal (thanks hotcarstuff) then a few coats of clear over the top

[bd581]

Nick, are those photos from before your brakes got a little hot that time?
Or have you fixed them up.

Also, what paint did you use?

[nickows]

Thanks for the kind words mpssylo

ok heres mine, dont look nearly as sexy as Nicks, but if I had sexy looking brakes it would detract from the coolness of my black car

I like yours Mel - fits in well with stealth look of your car

Nick, are those photos from before your brakes got a little hot that time?
Or have you fixed them up.

Also, what paint did you use?

The photos were taken before they got a little too warm Haven't really had the motivation to redo them because they took quite a while to do in the first place. The painting is the fast bit; the prep time is the killer.

I used Motospray Caliper and Drum paint in Vivid Blue.

If I do get around to doing them again I was thinking of going the colour below





I think it looks great with the white car/dark rim combo so I reckon it would work with my car, and finish it off with black Mazdaspeed decals. Just working up the courage to do it And worried that the smaller calipers on the MPS (compared to the Brembos on the M3 above) would look silly in yellow. Im sure plenty of people think it looks rice/try hard, but ever since I saw the grey Lambo in the Dark Knight I've always wanted yellow calipers Very sad, I know...

[Team Green]

I dont have pics of the process as they were done when I had the key scratch fixed as the Panel Beater did it for me...

[Hectic D]

Heres Mine :









Cheers
Dee !

[nickows]

Nice calipers everyone. Thanks for sharing. Lets keep this thread going - there's got to be more sexy calipers out there

[mymps3]

Here is some pics of my painted calipers. The colour red is soo hard to photograph. I just need new wheels now to show them off.

Mazda 3 MPS pics :: Redcalipers012.jpg picture by mymps3 - Photobucket[COLOR="Silver"]

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I GIVE UP TRYING TO POST A PIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shakespeare]

Fixed up the link for you mymps3 FYI to add images from Photobucket all you need to do is copy the link in the box that reads "IMG code" and paste it directly into your message, hope this helps, also wasn't sure which images you wanted? hope I picked the right ones.