Avalanch3

Viewing the recent posts on people painting their wheels/calipers, I was wondering if I do the same.

Instead of just doing it and not being satisfied, I photoshopped it first to see how it would look.

Original:



Brake Calipers:



Brake Calipers/Wheel Paint



Comparison:

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What do you all think?

JimC

I like the painted wheel and the calipers go well with your car. I'm not sure how close the actual caliper paint is to the color of your car, but it is probably close enough. The painted wheel has a 1966 Shelby look to it.

BadS197

ActuallyG2 just released a D3 Torch Red Brake Caliper Paint which will matchthe factoryTorch Red Mustang. PM me or shoot me an e-mail if you're interested. I don't believe it's up on the website yet, but I can get you taken care of.

landon.moss

don't forget the lil painted indentions on your wheels...i almost forgot them when i did mine, but i caught it...with spinners you can't really see em, but on yours, def need it done...i think it's sweet, but i'm biased :P

JimC

Landon - how did you do the paint job, what steps, what type of paint,any pics?

StreamlineStang

It looks great to me, good luck!

Avalanch3

by indentations you mean inside the wheel right? Yeah that would look so bad if I forgot that haha.

landon.moss

nah, there's 5 of em...in-between each lug nut there's a lil triangular indentation...

this has been in a few other threads, but just scuff-up the gray painted parts with 320, prime if you want, paint (don't forget to mask lol) do 2-3 coats of paint and then clear...you shouldn't have any problem with runs, etc. if you takeyour time, but if you do, it won't really show up anyway

HINT: to save some time, polish the wheels before you start so that if you get overspray or don't mask well enough, the paint dots will rub right off i just used department store paint - it works just as well as the high dollar duplicolor, etc. paints.

i think i wanna do my calipers, but not sure what color on mineral grey - i was thinking ford blue or red, but then competition orange was brought up (and i'm a sucker for orange lol)...but i'm gonna clean on my car tomorrow and i'll get some new pics -the ones i've posted are from january i believe,maybebefore that- i did my painting in september of 07 and it's holding up really well through the iowa salt, sand, snow, gravel, etc.

Avalanch3

I was thinking about painting those triangular indentations red, but that might look stupid. I will most likely just paint those black along with the wheels.

I'm getting my car detailed/waxed tomorrow, then driving it home and going to work on the car.

Also, did you scuff the front part of the rims (the part you did not paint)?

StreamlineStang

Probably not,the only reason you scuff is so the paint has a good surface to stick to and that way it looks better and lasts longer.