Powder Coat Brake Disc Inner Section

I've done some hunting and haven't found the answer...

How does one paint or powder coat the inner section of the brake disc? Obviously you don't want any coating on the braking surface, but is it possible (or even advisable) to take the two pieces of the disc apart (these are called floating discs, right?) in order to coat the inner mounting section. Or do you just tape them?

I'd like to make them look like this:

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I had mine done. The guy just taped them off. I wouldn't even attempt to take them apart.


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that's exactly what I'm going for... is that paint or powder?

Do I need to worry about the heat of baking the powder warping the rotors?

I cleaned, steel wooled, taped and use high heat black rattle can. Holding surprisingly well!

I just roughly cleaned mine, taped the disc, and used some gold wheel paint in a spraycan. (The right-hand side disc carrier was silver, the other gold, so sprayed them to match). Did the same with my '90 VFR750 when I had that too. It seems to adhere well to the aluminum, because it never flaked off.

that's exactly what I'm going for... is that paint or powder?

Do I need to worry about the heat of baking the powder warping the rotors?

That is powder. I did the wheels silver (instead of black) and the rotors black (instead of gold). No problems with warping the rotors. I'm sure they get much hotter during normal use than they would in an oven for 30 minutes.