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If the caliper bodies are painted with a high temp sort of caliper paint will it effect the performance of the caliper under extreme race conditions?

If not what is a recommended paint to use?

China_Racer_1 wrote:If the caliper bodies are painted with a high temp sort of caliper paint will it effect the performance of the caliper under extreme race conditions?

If not what is a recommended paint to use?

I think that if it did affect the caliper at all (i.e. making it warmer than it would be without paint?) you are thinking it would change how the brake fluid is flowing through the caliper? I layer of paint comes on the calipers, but I don't know if it has different heat retention properties compared to the high temp paint. They make specific caliper paint that you can buy that might be worth checking out. I'd think that the heat on the calipers would be negligible and you'd have nothing to worry about. Look at the thick coat of paint on some of those brembo calipers...

zero9243 wrote:

China_Racer_1 wrote:If the caliper bodies are painted with a high temp sort of caliper paint will it effect the performance of the caliper under extreme race conditions?

If not what is a recommended paint to use?

I think that if it did affect the caliper at all (i.e. making it warmer than it would be without paint?) you are thinking it would change how the brake fluid is flowing through the caliper? I layer of paint comes on the calipers, but I don't know if it has different heat retention properties compared to the high temp paint. They make specific caliper paint that you can buy that might be worth checking out. I'd think that the heat on the calipers would be negligible and you'd have nothing to worry about. Look at the thick coat of paint on some of those brembo calipers...

Ahh but the Brembo castings are very rough & metalic paint so they have a greater surface area, i learned to my cost about polishing calipers increasing brake fade.