breftayka

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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.

GraphiteG37S

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

soundmike

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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).

breftayka

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^^^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.

nbarone

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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!

breftayka

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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.

nbarone

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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

Djfarhan

nice diy!

Z gave way to G

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

Z gave way to G

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

ucla bruin

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Great job with the calipers and even better job with the DIY.
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tygastyle80

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...

soundmike

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^ 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.

breftayka

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

NoMoneyNoHoney

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