There is a dreadful smell eminating from the kitchen. I have put my brake drums in the oven to cure the Hight Temp paint. I have bought 2 cans from different sources that I expected to be gloss red both are a very matt orange. I was hoping that curing the paint as per the instructions on one can would turn them red and glossy so far they have been in the allotted hour and don't look much different. Has anyone had a good glossy result with any high temp paint? If so what make and how did you manage it?

Caber

I painted my freshly rebuilt crossflow with Halfords red engine laquer and that has come up a nice glossy red. I painted the calipers on my Civic VTi about a year ago with black engine laquer and it's stayed put so should be fine.

Foliatec Brake Caliper Paint - does what it says on the box.... no bo***x!!

Available in some colours...





Yellow, Gold, Blue, Green maybe Red

coloured brake calipers..........arrgghhhhhh

Paint em black for goodness sake!!!

Oi, i'm going red! so shut it. Just cause you're car is black and ali :p

Best go an get me copy of Pax Mower then

hold on, just realised, yours are already black cause you bought tart's front calipers!

fax power indeed! I'd like to remind you who was sat on my bog reading my collection of PPC's sunday morning.

(sorry about the hijack, but i think you've already got hte answer, some people also use red enamel or plasticoat on the engine - do a search, stuff they've got from b&q)

Any hints where to get foliatec paint?

Caber

Black Plasti-Kote barbeque paint from B&Q, cheap as chips and works on anything that gets bloody hot, job done.

can you get it in red?

We seem to have stirred up a bit of a Bitch Fest on the topic of coloured calipers! Tell you what I'll start a poll and see what we get!

Meanwhile I hope someone can help me produce what I want!

Caber

Halfrauds do a coloured caliper paint. £10 a tin though

Thats what I started with, it is flat orange! I really want a glossy finish, so I can keep them nice and clean!

Caber

We bought ours from Larkspeed. It wasn't cheap but it is very good. I would imagine most max power places have it in stock.

Phil

Heh heh I was only larking about (think you all know that anyway!)

its all down to personal preference, I'm naturally not a very flash sort of person, I prefer to let the engineering/driving do the talking (which the former usually does but the latter very rarely lol!!!!)

He He I knew that I was hoping to expand the argument a bit in the poll. have you put you 4p worth therer yet

Caber

4p ........ spent