cdelena

I've done the same thing and had good luck with it. I do recommend baking the rotors in the oven after painting, it cures the paint. It will stay perfect for street use but the finish is affected slightly by the extreme heat of track use.

Here is a pic after a year and a number of track events..

tino73

I thought I saw somewhere where people had these powdercoated, and that looked nice. Don't know how much that would run you.

Greg Fisher

I recently had my calipers powder coated and was concerned that having nice red calipers would draw more attention to my SSR GT1 wheels.......but I noticed that the unswept area of the roters were all rusty to include a portion of the flat portion where the wheel bolts on. I pulled the roters off and used a wire brush on a drill and went after the rusty area. I not only hit the edge of the rotor but also the face. When they were clean I taped the swept area and used a black spray paint that I got from a wood stove dealer in my area (the guy actually gave the can to me). I figured if its good enough for a wood/coal stove it should probably hold up.

I have only driven the car 6 times since I got it all back together, but so far so good.

Easy and cheap

Greg

djohnston

You guys can call me nuts, but what I do, once or twice a year, is take off each wheel, spray some WD40 on a rag, and wipe down the rusty edges of the rotors. Inevitably some of the WD40 will drip on the swept area of the rotor, but it vanishes after a few moments of braking with no apparent loss of braking ability. This technique doesn't eliminate the rusty rotor edges, but it does keep the rust in check to some degree.
I was just outside doing this when I discovered a nail stuck deeply in my right rear tire, upon removing it my tire went flat, and is now at a local tire shop being plugged (hopefully). So by doing my WD40 treatment on the rotor edges, I just saved myself from having a puncture on the road somewhere.

tino73

I am not the most mechanically inclined person, but is it easy enough to take the calipers off and paint them?