Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums Modifications Brakes painting rotor hats==> what to use

I'm comfortable with a little bit of overspray or messy masking results bleeding onto the friction area but I wouldn't just paint the friction area and let the pads scrape it off, because no matter what, some of the material will contaminate both the pad and the rotor and I wouldn't count on that being a neutral or positive thing when push comes to shove.

I cut a circle out of newspaper and then carefully masked it onto the rotor with overlapping strips of tape, and it wasn't *perfectly* circular but after the brakes got used a couple times it was all good. I carefully peeled the tape/paper mask off the rotor and moved it to the other one saving a lot of time. Can't do all 4 rotors this way if the inside diameter of the swept areas is different though. But at the end of the day it's 5 minutes of taping, no big deal.