Hello everyone welcome to another episode of custom spray mods in this video
I'm going to paint the brake calipers on my Forester Im in my shed. I've got it up on the lift
So I've got the wheels off and I'm ready to start sanding them down and paint them something cool. Check it out
Currently the brake calipers on the Forester are a black with a white STI logo
So it's time to sand them down paint them something different. So I'm gonna use these
3mm fine sanding sponges and they're going to allow me to send into all the little
Corners and shapes around the brake caliper. So basically we just need to stuff it up
To allow that primer stick
And you know it's stuffed cuz it changes color
Yeah
Im Painting the calipers while they're still attached to the car
I've painted calipers before while they're off the car and I've got a few videos on that which you can check out
I'll put the links in the description
but for this
Today, I want to get these done quick. So i'm going to leave the calipers on the car and
Really who's going to look behind the wheel arch and kind of say, ah, your pal calipers aren't painted properly
Doesn't happen, so yeah all those dudes commenting saying you should take them up the car I
I Say screw you
Because if you put a set of calipers that are painted up the car and instead of calipers that are painted on the car
You won't notice a difference
And that's fact
Yeah, that's it rant over
Now that the calipers are all sanded
I'm going to mask up everything that I don't want to get paint on including the brake pads the brake discs
I've also got some plastic over the entire car to prevent overspray
And I'm also using some paper to cover up any suspension parts and brake lines
Okay, so got the brakes and the car all masked up
There's no way getting any overspray on the car
Paints only going on the brakes. I can even get around the back a little bit there. So
Pretty cool. Now. I'm going to spray some primer color stickers color
cool
Okay, now clean with wax and grease remover
Good
Now I'm going to go around and spray one coat of etch primer over all the brake calipers now
It's going to help my new paint stick
The etch primer is going to dry really thin and smooth and I won't need to sand it
I'll leave it 30 minutes to dry and then I'll move on to my next step
I'm going to spray red base coat over the face of the brakes because that is going to be the color of my logo
We're going to spray that about two coats and I'll let that dry for about thirty minutes and I can stick my stickers on
The color that I've chosen needs a black base
So I'm going to spray black over all the brake callipers and then I'll spray my pearl on top of that
So I'm going to paint the brakes in a color shift pearl and this particular color changes from
purple to blue to a gold kind of copper color and
Yet over black. It really stands out
This comes as a powder, but it also comes as a liquid form
I'm going to mix it 50/50 with some thinners put it in my spray gun and spray it over the black base
Now I'm gonna spray two coats of the pearl over the black
I'll let it dry for about 30 minutes and I can start peeling off my stickers
Now if you remember that red that I sprayed down
Well that's being protected by the sticker
And when I peel it off, it's been exposed and then I'll clear coat other everything and I'll have the logo in a painted red
Now that all the base coats are dry
I'm going to paint my 2k clear over the brake calipers and that's going to dry super shiny and it will make it
Heat-resistant and look awesome
This clear coat dries in about an hour so I can unmask it and put the wheels back on
If you don't have a spray booth, it doesn't matter 2K clear will air dry
Sometimes it can take overnight but normally is touch dry after a few hours
There you go the brake callipers on forester
were black with a white sti logo
So I sanded them down and sprayed some 2k etch primer sprayed some red
Then I put the sticker over the red then I sprayed black then my color shift pearl
Then I peel the sticker off and clear coated the whole brake caliper and that gave it a nice shiny
Finish and the STI logo is painted on rather than a sticker. So it looks awesome
And it's super shiny and dry and the 2k clear is quite heat resistant as well
So yeah, that's all good. As I mentioned before I have painted brake calipers off the car
I've got a video
I'll put that in the description where I've taken the calipers off the car
Sprayed them then bolted them back on the car and bled the brakes. I wanted to get this done in one day
So I just mask them up painted them on the car
And I'm pretty sure you would not be able to tell the difference
Just want to mention as well that all these products are available in spray cans
You can get the etch primer
the base coats and the clear coat and you can do it without a spray gun and a compressor, but it's just I
Found that easier cuz I've got a gun and I've got a compressor
So it just makes it the ease of me you at home definitely do it with spray cans. Otherwise do yourself a spray gun?
So yeah, that was it for the brake callipers next i'm going to bolt on and exhaust on this thing
So check that out my straight in some heat paint, which is going to be cool
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