300zx caliper painting gone bad

[brage]

Doh... I had painted my calipers with black glossy ceramic engine paint about a week ago, and upon recommendation from friends who said it may get rock chipped, etc, that I should clear coat the calipers as well. So I picked up a can of the clear ceramic engine paint to clear-coat the calipers with b/c I wanted it to have the same heat withstanding ability as the underlying paint. I had let the paint cure for 5 days (actually 6) since painting the black on the calipers before I set out to clear coat them - and lucky for me after all that work the paint is ruined . I plan to get all the paint off now with a wire wheel and polish the calipers. Maybe it will look better polished and clearcoated

pics: (unfortunately I don't have a good picture after they were painted black and the nissan letters were sanded to a brushed aluminum look)


The paint cans..


Just after applying the clearcoat


moments later... destroyed

back to the drawing board - worse off than I was before

-jeff