67mattbo

lobuxracer

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That really does look nice. Very upscale and subtle, not screaming something. And yes, I own a car with orange calipers...

JohnMorgan

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Classy, and the finish is flawless. Great choice OP

mikersoft

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Looks good. Is that DIY, or did you have that done somewhere?

-Mike

cvt

Wow. Those look amazing. I was looking at caliper colors since my stock caliper paint is chipping off.

orangeblue

If it's the Cerakote I think it is, it's a pretty involved process. https://www.cerakoteguncoatings.com/...EB_1-17-17.pdf
It's possibly to DIY, but unless you've got all of the stuff required to actually do the process, it's better left to a pro.

lobuxracer

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Looks like this process isn't intended to be a DIY unless you want to start a Cerakote business. The only thing I didn't see was how hot the coating will survive. From the sound of it, it's a lot better than most powder coatings, but they didn't come right out and say yes indeed this will work great on your auto brake calipers at the track. Most powder coat can't tolerate track temps. Lots of bad stories on the Corvette forums about that.

If this coating really is tolerant to 500F, I'd love to do mine again. Same problem as everyone else - the original coating is chipping off now.

glerink

Was I the only one that took a good minute looking for the calipers on the car just to realize they weren't on the car but in front the tire lmao

liquidtek

Had my headers cera coated. Supposed to be up to 1600-1800 deg or something. The link provided shows gun powder coats. They offer higher temp exhaust quality coatings as well which is what I got.

WylieKylie

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Cerakote isn't perfect, but I would say it holds up better than normal powder coat (Cerakote is similar to powder coat in the fact that it has to be baked to cure, but it goes on wet and is then baked on, powder goes on as a dry powder before being baked on).
LOTS of guns either come coated with this stuff from the factory, or are done aftermarket. It holds up to the heat of being applied to a semi automatic gun barrel pretty well. Any local gun shop should be able to help you find a place that can do this kind of work, but not every shop that can do Cerakote will want to deal with a set of brake calipers. Also have a look at pages 7-9 of this thread: http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthrea...-Vol-III/page7 The process for refinishing a set of Viper calipers is shown, including Cerakoting all the caliper hardware.

Teutonic

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I kept doing the same until I scrolled a little further down. Until then I thought they were painted an invisible color! They look nice!

67mattbo

orangeblue

Their high-temp gun coating is rated to 1800 degrees, and their exhaust coating is supposed to be color stable to 2000 degrees.
It's pretty cools stuff

lobuxracer

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That's magical. Or demonic. Or alien technology. Totally awesome!