Opinions or scientific answer..........

[Nsxotic]

I have painted my calipers yellow with high temp engine paint. They are fine but the color is a bit off from the car of course. I am thinking about putting a finishing coat on them with factory touch up paint. This will give it the metallic, more matched finish. Will this be ok considering the base coat is high temp or is it going to flake and peel? Thanks for the opinions.

 

[Andrie Hartanto]

My friend has his caliper painted with body paint. As long as you don't use your car to the track and heavy driving, it should be fine. He has it for more than a year and it still look fine.

 

[Tom Larkins]

I would check with the manufacture of the paint that you used as your base coat. They may give you some type of max temp that the paint can withstand. At that point you can check with the OEM paint from Acura. If its within reasonable tempature of what you used as a base, you may be OK. One thing you need to remember, dependent on how you drive your car your gonna get fading of the caliper's at some point. I can't recall ever seeing a sports car that did not have dis-colored brakes at some point and with yellow you will really tell if the paint used doesn't have the proper tolerences for the high heat that is generated. Use to race FormulaFords and we painted ours for some car shows in the off-season, they were baked after to races even after Dupont said it would work, so be careful. The OEM that Porsche offers seem to hold up well in black and even the Brembo Big Reds. You just have to make the choice on how often you want to paint them. Oh, by the way, you offered to look at a car for me in Ft. Lauderdale.(Red/Blk w 20k on it) Thanks a bunch for the offer, I ending up buying from a guy in Washington State and the guy by you still has it for sale. Good luck.

[This message has been edited by Tom Larkins (edited 08 June 2002).]

 

[cojones]

I've used Sikkens non-metallic body paint before, and it worked fine, even with moderate non-competitive track use (HPDE and lapping days).

IIRC, OE Porsche big-brake calipers are powdercoated. This works well as their Brembos are much smoother castings than the OEM NSX calipers.

[This message has been edited by cojones (edited 08 June 2002).]