Alri guys and girls im about to paint my calipers and rotors i have a couple of questions i was wondering u guys and gurls can help me on lol
1. i got new rotors do i need to sand them to paint them ?
2. my rear calipers are really rusty wats a heavy grit or a some sort of disk i can take the rust away with ?
3. tips and stuff to watch out for ? goin all black calipers and rotors on a white gt

You won't need to sand the rotors down. Just tape it off and have at it. I tape them off at where the pad touches the surface, but leave the side (vents) untaped so they can hold up rust free a little longer.
Just a wire brush wheel should do the trick for the calipers, especially if you're leaving them on the car.

Post pics when it's all done!!

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i cheat and dont tape off, when you do the break in you'll burn up any paint contacting. usually don't have a problem w/ nice ceramic pads

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That's true too.

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What he said.

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do i need primer for my calipers or can i just spray some vht and some clear coat shit ?

You won't need primer jus clean caliper well (steel wire brush helps) and spray away. Light coats at first and let it dry then finish off with more light coats until your satisfied. Brake fluid also helps removing paint if your needing it ;p and post pics when your done.

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ye i have like hard flacky paint on it ,its so hard to take off i have that dermal drill with those little sanding spinners or w.e u call them couple of those some 100 grit sandpaper my front ones are just horrible and my bak ones are even worse lol

Well i have painted my rotors black !

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and the back side just to finish half a paint can

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Ran into a problem Need some help I painted my rotors but they had signs on them left and right and now i dont know which ones which ?

Looks good. In the top pic, the uppermost rotor and bottom right rotor look like they are drivers side and the middle left and middle right look like passenger side. Technically it doesn't really make a difference but for looks it better to have the pattern in the "forward swooping" direction

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GP's:04 GP GT, Past now G-Ma's Girlfriend's 97 GP GT, "Project Pink Power"

//// drivers

\\\\\ pass

the slash points to the rear

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To clarify, the TOP (or the end of the slash farthest from the center ) of the slash points to the rear

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

alri cool thanks guys calipers are next and man they look like shit time to get workin on those!

when done be sure that your first couple of stops are slow and you have plenty of room. till the paint gets off there.

other wise lookin good.. makes me want to go get busy on mine and get everything all painted up.

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

will do thanks for the tip man ... just noticed missed a spot lol touched it up and btw ^ we have the same car color and i like those wheels u got makes me want to change my torque stars to something else

If you can manage to hold out I have some t-stars that I am gonna put on to see how the look. ( may leave them for a little while I do some playin with the 18's


Sneak preview






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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

those would look nice did u paint the backs of them ?

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Btw wat did u use any right up ?

did not do the back. i just sanded them down so the paint would stick decent, and sprayed them.. i will see if i can find the small write up it did for my other wheels..

ok i thought i did a better write up on them then this, but i guess not.. i will have to do it when i redo these then.. (gonna paint the white 17's black) and yes the t-stars that are all different colors are the ones i painted all black. the hard one to do was the silver one because it was a "hammered" look paint, and i had to sand most of it off ot get it fairly smooth again.. i will do a quick write when i paint the 17's black. but here is my other thread till then .

picture-showroom-f69/color-to-paint-wheels-update-wheels-are-now-painted-t20490.html

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2001 white gt coupe with enough crap to make it run mid 13's with 3 bad pistons
2002 40th GTP sedan mostly stock

Blacks are the way to go thanks bigdog9191999 lol

I think I'm gonna end up plastidipping my rims soon.

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my rims = black

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yup same goes here black would look so sik on white car the rotors are on car and rubbed the paint of the hats stayed nice and shinny and Pitch black just like i wanted them to be looks great need to wash but raining tommorw

pics?

oh and here is what mine looked like on my old gtp

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yesir picture in 2 seconds lol

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calipers will be painted later on didnt really have time needs my brakes back cause i didnt have shit stoping the tires from spinning lol but here u go 2 pictures cars pretty dirty but i think they turned out good clear coat and the high heat clear