costpenn

70 Olds A body - I did mine in the high heat cast, but have seen other nice cars painted in black. Did not find any traces of paint on my original calipers, but they were both ***** of rust. Which way is correct?

68442

Rust is correct. Seriously, they were not painted from the factory. they were soaked in cosmoline/oil on the assembly line just to keep flash rust from forming. Once on the road after a month or so rust would start. Kind of like a caliper you would get from maybe NAPA- natural looking finish out of the box till you get on the road.

RandyS

Rust is not for me............ I think it depends on the color of your car to some degree, and also if you want them to show up. I have seen Black, Silver (gray) and Red. Red shouts it out, Silver more demure and Black tends to hide them.

Lady72nRob71

I used the high temp brake grey from eastwood that resembles a fresh cast iron part.
I also shot the new MC with it and it was such a close match to the raw metal that I had had a hard time seeing where I painted. Rotor hubs got this, too.

jensenracing77

I have no idea what is correct but I painted all the machined surfaces with a stainless paint and taped them off and painted everything else with Eastwoods Phosphate paint. Also painted the air groove and hubs of the rotors with the same phosphate paint. I had alot of time in taping off the machined surfaces and not sure it was worth it.

joe_padavano

"Correct" would be bare cast iron, which immediately rusts, so if you want to paint the calipers and look "correct", use a cast iron color paint. Anything else will not be "factory".

costpenn

Thanks. I used the Duplicolor Cast Iron engine paint. It claims it is good to 500F so hopefully it will hold up for a while.