To POWDER or Paint my Caliper

[mobiledynamics]

8 Pot Brembo needs a rebuild.
I had my mind set on sending them to the PC.

Brembo uses Paint.
Paint is also less of a ~heat~ insulator compared to Powder.

Thoughts ?

I have had calipers painted in the past. After 6 hrs +, they have held up . Pro Price...Pro Quality.

Ehh. I'm 2nd guessing it and thinking I should go back to paint

 

[JerseyBoatBuilder]

I always use G2 two part epoxy based caliper paint.

http://www.g2usa.com/

I like powder coat but it is just to much of an inconvenience for me.

 

[03protege]

6hrs and they were still holding up? That is not a very good measure of durability.

 

[mobiledynamics]

6-10 hrs on 90 degree temps is more than hot enough.
I'm sure there are various *paints* out there...

Not sure if you saw my other thread...but my paint shop is asking 1K to do them....

 

[G1GRANDEUR]

Powder coating is not recommend for tacked cars due to the fact that powder coating acts as an insulator and will retain more heat over a painted finish. This is why many high end vehicles brake calipers are painted.

Use g2 or VHT.

 

[mobiledynamics]

Understood on the insulator...
PC is thicker - hence the insulator

For this application, it's my daily driver.
The math as well is more reasonable going PC route.
About 1/2 the costs..

 

[WanderingSol]

I did the calipers on my Solstice last year with the G2 kit. About 10 hours cleaning and prepping and 2 hours painting two coats. 1.5 years now, still look great. See
http://www.wanderingsol.comule.com/Rides/pedicure.html

Tim.

 

[PoolGuy444]

1000 dollars to paint calipers? Seems crazy high

 

[5mall5nail5]

Powder coating is not recommend for tacked cars due to the fact that powder coating acts as an insulator and will retain more heat over a painted finish. This is why many high end vehicles brake calipers are painted.

Use g2 or VHT.

Such a vague misnomer in fact many calipers like Brembo have a baked on base/primer coat!

Many powder coats are metallic and transfer heat. There's no blanket statement.

If powder coat was not advised on tracked cars why would every single Wilwood caliper come powder coated? They're specifically for aftermarket/track car applications.

 

[bsaint]

powder coat also adds a significant thickness coating to your merda.

 

[G1GRANDEUR]

If powder coat was not advised on tracked cars why would every single Wilwood caliper come powder coated? They're specifically for aftermarket/track car applications.

ask wilwood, Brembo does not recommend using powder coating.

but yes, not all the powder coatings are same.

 

[5mall5nail5]

ask wilwood, Brembo does not recommend using powder coating.

but yes, not all the powder coatings are same.

Again, brembo doesn't recommend using powder coat because then you won't send your calipers to them for a $750 rebuild. I do powder coating myself and my buddy runs a pretty high volume shop - we've both done toooons of brembo calipers without issue.

 

[zakmartin]

I wonder if anyone's ever used those ebay adhesive fake Brembo facias to make their real Brembos look nice and clean.

 

[davesnothere]

Paint and powder are for girls.
Chrome 'em.

 

[5mall5nail5]

Paint and powder are for girls.
Chrome 'em.

Chrome is for gangsters rockin '82 olds on 24" daytons holla holla

 

[NUTTSGT]

You could always paint them with POR15 and then topcoat them with their caliper paint.

 

[Engineer61]

Think about the powder coating process - plastic powder is sprayed on, the part is put into an oven and the powder is heated so it goes semi-liquid and smooths out to coat the part, oven turned off and the part cooled to re-solidify the plastic coating.
Now think about your calipers - brakes are applied repeatedly; rotor heats up, maybe to red hot (look at road race cars, on some tracks the rotors are glowing so you can see them at night); caliper heats up, powder coating heats up and melts and every bit of sand etc that hits the caliper starts to stick. Car is parked, caliper cools down and the plastic coating retains all of that crud forever more.

Real bad idea to put powder coating on anything that gets hot (250-300+ F).

 

[CudaChick1968]

LMAO!!!!!!!!! Where do you guys come up with some of this stuff???