lol people wouldnt notice the lack of a caliper at all

 

You shouldn't paint the wheel faces, becuase now when you tighten your wheelnuts, instead of a nice machined surface, you're tightening them against paint, which is varying thickness and relatively soft. You could get loosening wheelnuts and wheel balance issues.

 

I used Dupli-Color brush on caliper paint. Used red because the car is red. Anyway, the brush on is real easy to use, goes on smooth and doesn't need masking. 2 coats did it for front and rear. The small can says it will do something like 2 cars. So far I have done 5 cars plus an intake manifold with that one can, and still have half of it left.

 

if i was ever going to paint the rear drum brakes, i'd use engine enamel paint matte black.

 

I used caliper paint and sprayed them black along with my calipers..that's the only color you should paint them, otherwise it looks retarded.

 

I'm ok with colored calipers, but I'm old school...so, colored = you've done some upgrade work. Painting a brake drum an eye catching color is right up there with fake carbon fiber inserts on aftermarket wheels - wtf is that, anyway...

+1 on flat/matte black.

 

Looks like we are retarded and here I thought I was just old. I still like my blue drums and calipers.

 

"...oh, it looks good on you, though"

 

Painting the front one color, and the rear another seems sorta confused. I prefer both the same, especially when you have narrow spoked wheels, and they show the drums/calipers well. The blue front and back looks great to me.

 

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