I finished later on in the evening, so I let it sit over night at least. I wish I would've let the paint sit a little longer before bleeding the brakes though. One of the inside bleeder valves leaked onto the paint a little and ate it away. I just resprayed it a little while it was on the car. You can't tell.

 

I would say gold or yellow for your car... Unless you wanna go for something wild like like green.

 

Excellent DIY!

But if i may, i'd just like to add/correct to the DIY.

The FSM calls for this order when bleeding:
passenger rear > driver front > driver rear > lastly passenger front

And for most calipers with two bleeders, bleed the inside nipple then the outside. (Here's my shameless plug for the one-man bleeding DIY).

And for the paint, since you already had it out, popping them in the oven for 20m at 200F would've cured it fast. I used a different paint, took me 17 days to do, but it's on there good and has been track-tested numerous times.

Also, after testing so many different high-temp vinyl's and various oven temperatures, stay away from light colors as they tend to turn brown after a while (I spray-painted mine using stencils instead of using decals).

 

^^^Thanks man. I added your information to the first post. I wonder why you bleed the brakes in that order? I was always taught the way I did it, but can't argue with the book.

 

Rather than taking off the brakes, is it possible to just mask off everthing around the calipers and paint them?

BTW, got the decals today, they look great!

 

I wouldn't recommend it. The way I did it was kind of half assed. Leaving them on would be going too far in my opinion. Up to you though man!

Glad you got them.

 

Was searching for caliper paint and found this site. They have some nice custom colors. If anyone is interested check it out.

Custom Colors On Hand

 

nice diy!

 

WTF?!?! You indecisive woman! You had a whole thread designated for the sole purpose of deciding on a calper color, and you still don't know?!?! hahahaha

 

Chris, they came out stellar dude! I need to get around to doing mine soon.

 

Great job with the calipers and even better job with the DIY.
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How are these holding up? I bought the VHT paint after seeing this post, but I'm a little concerned about the clear not holding up to the high temps...

 

^ you can always get hi-temp clear. I used hi-temp for both base and clear and it's held up fine even with some light track duty.

 

They're holding up fine. I don't see any damage or anything negative about them.

 

Any way to do this and leave the "Infiniti" lettering on the calipers?