Factory Color Matched Calipers
 

Glen (Funky Buddha) and I did the calipers on his car today. I work at a body shop, so I had the paint custom mixed to the factory color. The color is almost spot-on and came out really good. We used 2 coats of each, primer, color, and clearcoat.

Let us know what you think!

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i like it. brings out the wheels on the car nicely

as always nice car "funky buddha"

Mine are the Mazdaspeed silver, some times I feel like painting them black to be different.. Thing is, I wonder how that'd look. I'll have to Photoshop up something later. Anyone seen them in black?



Also you guys make me jealous of your nice P5s, I almost miss mine now.

Looks sweet!!

Thanks guys..and girl..LOL

Most of the credit should go to Nick(Maxx Mazda) for hooking
me up w/ the paint, and letting me use his garage and tools. Couldn't have done this since I don't have a driveway or garage.

Now I owe him some beer.

You know what else hasn't been done before? What about Spicy Orange calipers? Black is barely noticeable, and you might as well not even have the MSP ones then, but I think spicy orange on a black car would be off the hook!

Oh, and if you want to be jealous of a P5, wait until mine's done! ;)

Anytime Glen. I'm glad you like it, and hope you'll enjoy it for a long time to come! :D

is that special paint? or is it the same paint that is used on the body? because i have a silver P5 and i'd like to use that color on my calipers. i think it would look sweet! but i hear you need a special heat resistant paint for them.

It's the same paint as used on the body. Had maxx mazda mix it up for me as he works in a body shop. It came in little touch up paint bottles. The only high temp paint i used was the clear coat.

man I would love to do that to my mp3, that looks real good. Any idea what the cost would be if you didnt have any hookups? How hard would it be to match vivid yellow?

I'm planning to do the same with silver...

Your vivid yellow color code is HZ. Goto a body shop and have them do that for you..Might cost around 20-30 bux depending on who does it. Plus get the primer, and some clearcoat. Then all it takes is time. A lot of time. Be prepared to spend a full day doing this.

20 to 30 per wheel? Or Total. Does that include them painting it with a gun? What does the clearcoat cost. And last did you leave yours on when you painted them, or did you just bring in the caliper?

Paint - 20-30CDN
High Temp Dupli-Color clear coat - 7CDN
Primer - 4CDN

Labor is the one that's gonna cost you since you have to take the wheels off. I left my calipers on as we couldn't get them off..freakin stupid bolts. I am not sure on labor, as we did it ourselves. I would say it'd prbbly take a max of 2 - 5 hours of labor depending whether they take out the calipers, they use a heat lamp to dry the paint, and the re-assembly of the calipers once they dry and shop fees and clean up and maybe for paint disposal.

If you're doing your calipers Vivid Yellow, MAKE SURE THE BODY SHOP MIXES A SINGLE STAGE PAINT!!! Vivid yellow has no clearcoat, so if you paint the callipers and then spray clear on top, you'll get a whack ass color. The whole point is to match the body.

It took us about 4 hours in total, with the both of us masking, etc. After the masking was done, we used spray cans of primer in 2 coats, then I used my skilled airbrush hand :p to apply the color in 2 even coats. Followed it all up with 2 coats of clear, and off we went.

Make sure you let each coat flash properly, but don't leave it too long or the next layer won't adhere. Good luck!