Painted Calipers/Painted Grill (56k No)

After the disaster last attempt to remove my wheels myself (Ford torqued one of my lugs to over 250 ft lbs) I finally had the chance to paint my calipers and decided to paint the billet grill and grill surround as well:

before:


After:



Grill I wetsanded with 600 grit and then primed with Krylon black...then painted with 3 coats of Krylon Satin Black

Brake calipers were cleaned with caliper cleaner, then I used a drill with a metal brush attachment to polish them, then painted with 3 coats each of Duplicolor caliper paint.

Grill Removed:


Sanded:


Primed:


Painted:


Installed:



I used a 3 ton floor jack and 4 ton jack stands....ALWAYS use jack stands for safety, now onto the pictures:

Before:



Cleaned and polished:


1 Coat:



3 Coats:
Front:



Rear:



Finished:








Total time was about 7 hours

I like it i should have done my calipers while i had my wheels off

BTW Love the wheels

good wurk

i want to paint mine too, but i cant find black in the brush on kits.

looks sweet i just painted the calipers on my car its something simple that has a good effect

Looks so hot! I'd keep an eye on that stud.. 250ftlbs.. yikes!!!

your truck is badass

stud is ok, lug nut was untorqued by les schwab and they had trouble with it.

Duplicolor makes the kit in black that is brush on...try amazon, they sell it

i dont wanna order it, i wanna go pick it up. :p lol.

i am loving the grill though!

The calipers and grill turned out great.Nicely done Sir.

Looking good. Care to elaborate on the process of cleaning, then painting your calipers. I really gotta do mine. I got the paint, just need to do it.

I talked to a guy tonight about using his paint shop to paint my drivers and passenger side mirrors.

Looks a lot better. I never was a fan of the billet inserts, but you just made them look good ;)

Man, that looks so sweet with those wheels!!
Great job!

I've seen the dupl-color brush on kits at Auto Zone and Kragen...

Duplicolor has the black kit....walmart, fred meyer maybe, auto zone, schuck/Kragen should have them in stock in black.

For cleaning it was quite simple. I used a caliper cleaner that comes with the duplicolor kit, you can also use brake cleaner which comes in an aerosol can, spray on and leave it....then I used my power drill with a bit attachment that has a wire brush on it; roughly 3 bucks at autozone, schucks etc. Then just washed them off with regular car wash soap and water, dried and painted

come paint my calipers now. im to lazy

Looks good. Glad to see they weren't made yellow.

coolbam wrote:

Looks good. Glad to see they weren't made yellow.

whats wrong with yellow!

I saw a mustang with yellow ones once and it was the worst thing ever done to them....


It would be fine on yours though.

02BlueStang wrote:

Duplicolor has the black kit....walmart, fred meyer maybe, auto zone, schuck/Kragen should have them in stock in black. For cleaning it was quite simple. I used a caliper cleaner that comes with the duplicolor kit, you can also use brake cleaner which comes in an aerosol can, spray on and leave it....then I used my power drill with a bit attachment that has a wire brush on it; roughly 3 bucks at autozone, schucks etc. Then just washed them off with regular car wash soap and water, dried and painted

Thanks for the info. Hopefully I can find some time that I won't need the car so that I can get mine done.