Looking good... i found wonder wheels to be a good cleaner of calipers before painting... this is hammerite smooth red on my Ibiza:

very nice mate does the red hammerite match up well to corrida red on my furby cheers

very nice mate does the red hammerite match up well to corrida red on my furby cheers

Think it definiatly would. Put it like this i've seen it on a red GTI and it looks spot on.

Big puff!!!!?

HAHA!

Ill do one.

Didnt know i was suppose to be doing like....

HAHA

Yeah use hammerite smooth red, will look great.

Ill maybe do a guide as im gunna repaint mine at the weekend.

ha ha you promised me love boat xx

Oh dear!

get one up get one up get one up!!! lol

What about the guide?....

Loving Hardcore monkey sex eh?...more like the grand rider at the rectum rodeo!

Ill get my mate to pay you a visit.....

ha ha you can ome around with your mate if you want two is better than one ha ha get the guide up buddy wanting to do mine (oohhh eerrr) on thursday as the weather looks nice how long for the paint to dry mate? cheers again bum boy xx

Hammerite smooth takes about 2 hrs in good conditions to dry fully.

Two coats better than one.

Where do you live, and ill be round!

ha ha cheers mate i am hoping to get these done on thursday friday if i can might have to do one side at a time cos i dont want to rush it mate and make a hash of it got the hammerite smooth in red and so good brushes that do not lose the bristles ha ha what can i clean them with first mate is fairy ok and it has a formula to brake greases down? cheers thanks again

I'm going to paint my 312mm calipers tonight currently green off an Octy - so far I've wire brushed them and cleaned them up with brake cleaner (supplied in the foliatech kit) and a brillo pad. last night I took the glaze off them with some fine wet and dry sand paper, question is do I need to taje the exisiting paint down any further or shoud I just give the surface another wire brushing and slap me red paint on?

Also is it common practise to leave the inside of the caliper, theres certainly no paint on the inside at present - just dirty looking metal?

I'll take some pics along the way to detail what could turn out to be a total balls up!

Thanks all, John

Useful stuff here guys thanks. I have a set of 312s that have been on a car and the calipers are currently unpainted. I have bought some Hammerite smooth green thats a good match and have taken the brakes apart so I just have the calipers. I have cleaned then up wtih APC and brake cleaner and tried some wire wool but it just put bits all over the brakes so I stopped and wiped them off.

I am not using a spray, doing it by brush. The first coat I have done is very very thin to ensure adhesion, but my question is what areas on the calipers must NOT be painted? Is is best just to do the bits that will be seen from the wheel, just in case?

Any more pics/examples/guides would be very helpful, thanks.

these look really good and quite a close match in colour !