No, painting your brake calipers will not give you extra horsepower, but they might make you feel faster.
This is a short video about painting brake calipers. There are many ways you can approach this process, this is just one of them, and in my opinion, one of the easiest and most accurate if you’re able to wield a small paint brush.
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Eric you're back! We have missed you! Been checking every day for a new ETCG video!!
Good to see your video pop up. You are missed as you have become a part of daily/weekly life for some people over the last decade. Be well.
Red adds the most power too!! Good choice!!
The man myth legend
Well Eric I missed watching your wonderful videos watching from South Africa
You’re baaaaaack!
I'm glad you posted a new video Eric and I hope you have a decent shop or at least a temporary shop to do your business, your hobby/craft and I hope you're doing well in general.
i'm not painting my calipers but i clicked on this quick.
I think they look bad because of all the rust that was on them. Not worth it.
I came over to click like just for the title, but great video. Quick, concise, no BS. 🙂
hmmm, the question is, if you smooth off the rough casting surface then paint the calipers gloss will they be more slippery though the air or would they be better smoothed off and polished because the lack of paint will make the vehicle lighter, while we are there, you have front brakes, would ditching the extra weight of a rear caliper set and lines save more weight?
one of the new systems i been using over here is bluetooth braking, you get a sender unit (the master) and the four calipers are small hydraulic bluetooth receivers, this gives you ultimate control on the fly over brake balance and needs no brake pipe fabrication
Nice to see you back. Hope you had a nice time off.
I painted mine and instantly felt like I had 200shot of nitrous
I've used G2 – awesome product
Red calipers add 3 hp each. 👍👍👍
I always thought painting calipers adds braking performance? Red being the best
Glad to see your back, hope to see more soon.
I bought the white paint,still looking good over 10 years.
porsche would be like: oh you want your calipers red? thats extra $2400 or something
You should have free time.now to deliver us the 4, 5 year old Fairmont videos. I've been waiting a long time for those
Welcome back!
Haha cool , welcome back hope to see more videos soon ciao
You definitely get way better finish painting new calipers. Though a lot of work, I have used bondo on old and new calipers and sanded to get a nice flat finish on the surfaces you can see. If you have to use old rusty calipers. It also helps to plasticize the rust first. Turns the rust all black and gives a good surface for paint. Bondo first and then plasticize the rust to get the best result. Use Never Seize on the neck of the bleeding nipple threads and brake line threads so you never have to change the caliper again. Don't never seize the entire threads. You don't want it contaminating the brake fluid. Of 40 years with this method It's never contaminated the brake fluid. Never had to change a caliper a second time. Holds up well to car washes.
Great hearing from u! Hope all is well. And hope to see alot of u!
Eric great to see you back,Good Bless You.
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Welcome back 😊😊😊
Sure are a lot of armchair quarterbacks in this comment section. So experts. Much nitpicking. Wow. :p
Eric, it's just plain good to see you today, I was wondering how you were doing yesterday afternoon, and here you are with two vids! Hope you are doing well, and thanks for what you do sir!
Looking Good!!
I missed seeing your video's. Hope can get a new shop soon.
Great to see you back, something to watch in the evening cheers mate from the UK
It's good to see you uploading again. Great to see your content.
Awesome awesome awesome to see you back at it
G'day Eric,
So good to see you man I hope things are coming together for you.
Anyhoo a big ✌️ Peace from Melbourne Australia.
Welcome back Eric. We missed you so much.
thanks for the new video , hopefully we will see more . Stay safe and have a great summer .
Welcome back
You’re back!👏👏👏👏 We’ve missed you!
That awkward zone between a Short because Eric can't speak fast enough, and a 10 minute video, because he no longer cares about our birthdays. Hmph.
Whatever.
Welcome back, Eric!
Anyone else miss his shop now and his awesome intros! And that digital cake!? Glad to see ya upload!!
ok, it got colored but apart from that, without proper cleaning (blasting this won't last long …
A bit disappointed that You of all didn't do it properly :0
Good , really good to see you're back!
Welcome back Eric, we love you