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I used the duplicolor caliper paint. It takes the better part of a day. Aside from putting the car up on jack stands, each coat takes about 5 minutes to apply, and you must wait at least 15 minutes before applying the second coat, or you'll screw up the first coat. With the finish on the calipers being so rough, it took, on average, 4 coats per caliper to really cover it well. When you're all done, you're supposed to wait 2 hours before you even put the tires back on. I don't know if this is because of better ventalation w/o the tires on, or to give the paint time to set up so that brake dust from the rims doesn't get embedded into the paint. (Maybe both?)
Then you're supposed to wait 24 hours before driving. And with an average of 4 coats per caliper, it takes awhile before the paint truly hardens. For me, it took a week.
This was also a good opportunity to do a brake job if needed, and replace the rotors like I had to. What surprised me was rotors were only 25 a piece
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