High Temp. Brake Caliper paint on plenum. Ideas?
08-05-2013, 02:03 PM
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High Temp. Brake Caliper paint on plenum. Ideas?
I started painting plenum because I'd rather not spend a bunch of money or time to polish it or pay someone to polish it to get a chrome bling look that I'm not a fan of. I used high temperature brake caliper paint and I choose silver to get the color as close as it would look the first day it came out of the factory but I did a crappy job because I didn't want to take off the engine cover and the sway bar again after the hell it took when installing my plenum spacer (idk why I never decided to paint it then when the bar was removed). Has anyone had any experience using brake caliper paint on the plenum? If you have any pics can I see them so I can copy your ideas lol? Noblesse oblige, thanks in advance.
08-05-2013, 04:24 PM
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I remove mine then I took a wire brush wheel/drill and some engine degreaser and took all the grease, grime and crap off of it then hit it with some high temp primer then 3 coats of aluminum color high temp paint.....IMO it looks better than when it came from the factory
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08-11-2013, 12:27 PM
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you don't have to use just brake caliper paint on high temp things. spray a base of high temp primer. next find a place that will put auto paint in a rattle can, or use whatever paint you want (auto paint just looks better). then use high temp clear coat. i did this on my brake calipers and 20000 miles later they still look good with no peeling.
