CBR1100XX

Do you guys feel it will look ricey or look good? Does anyone have pics or red calipers?


I recently bought the red kit from Duplicolor and now I am having second thoughts.


Pics would be a great help.

Mark307

I wouldnt go RED especially on stock calipers. I would go either black or silver.
And if your planning to use the duplicolor kit get another brush, the one it comes with sucks. The bristles will fall off and you'll end up picking them off your calipers. This is the best pic I've got with the Duplicolor in silver.

CBR1100XX

Awesome,
At first I thought I would accent the red in the S on the rear, the license plate frame, and the door sills. but just seems ricey now that I think about it. My next color was going to be black, but silver on silver does look nice. Maybe I can trade the kit in for silver locally somewhere.

Shawn S

Our stock calipers are FUGLY.
Paint them black so they don’t stand out.

As for colors, even if they’re aftermarket calipers I don’t really think our car has “the look” to go with Red, Yellow, Blue or any of those super bright colors.

CBR1100XX

I know damn it. It was an impulse buy. Now just hoping I can exchange it somehwere. On my old teg I used black and was very pleased. I guess I should have stuck with that

NSXNEXT

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Gloss black > *

dfreder371

I powder coat calipers. I did Smittys. PM him for advice. This stuff will last a lifetime, not a year or 18 months or so. Or, just see the sticky in the black market.

4pumpedCL

I chromed mine. Turned out nice...I'd love to see someone with black wheels use chrome calipers.

VeeralS05

I painted mine blue w/ Duplicolor paint....one tip, use many coats!!!

Pics are in my album .... ALBUM

I havent had time to take some really good shots, but I can take some for ya tomorrow just keep reminding me...

Seattle Cl-S

I painted my stock calipers black and I think they look great. Like everyone says, make them less noticable and you'll be happy. BTW, I also have a silver car.

Louie11

Never used dupli, but G2 caliper paint is great. I have black on my black cl-s and I did red on the girlfriends silver Kia Sorrento

CBR1100XX

How did the red turn out?

Louie11

Very nice. Like they came that way from the dealer, very shiny and bright red. Not like that dark faded red you get when you use the can. Plus they have been through a Chicago winter and still looks just the same. I recommend a light sanding and then three coats and it comes out awesome. PM with your email, I can't host and I will send you pics if you like.

Smitty

get them POWDERCOATED you will not be disappointed.

thholr

I painted mine red. I had a red CL-S . It actually looked really good when it was all done, not ricey at all.
I will try and dig up some pictures.

JaDia4

That looks hot Smitty!

edgalang

I initially had the calipers red & rotors (the areas that get rust) painted black. But after about a year the paint started to chip since it would get banged up everytime the dealer/wheel shop takes the wheels off. Since then I've gone ahead and painted them matte black and never looked back.



This is an old picture when they were still red. I don't recall taking pictures when I painted them black.

Louie11

Powdercoating is definitly the way to go, but the problem of down time with having the calipers taken off, sending them out, waiting for them to come back. With out a second car it's impossible. By the way Smitty, they do look great!

dfreder371

Smitty! It wasn't until just now that I noticed you have slotted rotors! When the car is laid up for the winter, get them to me and I will powder coat your rotors with the same black I put on your calipers. Then, I will throw them on the lathe and take the powder coating off the surface only. All the groves will be filled in black. The powder coating will take the heat just fine, believe me.

And to think I have two local Acura dealers trying to save me a scrap slotted rotor, and here they are right under my nose!

Smitty

Thanks fellas... the possibilities are out there.. all you guys just need to do is find someone who upgraded to a Big Brake kit... buy their front stock calipers off them, tear them down, clean them up.. ship them out....wait.... put them on your car and sell your non powdercoated calipers..

Once enough people get the calipers in circulation that are within our community, you guys will have no down time except for the break down, install and rebleeding of your brakes in less than 2 hours time....

Smitty

Dave are you going to Powdercoat the Rotor Hat too?... if so I will buy brand new ones, strip them down and send them to you within a few weeks.

dfreder371

Yes Smitty, I will. But why spend the money? I have sandblasting equipment at work that will accept something the size of a four cylinder engine block. The rotors would be no problem for them.

The area of the rotor that would NOT be painted is the rotor/wheel interface, to prevent any possible wheel wobble due to an uneven coating. You do not want paint there.

By the way, great progress today on the latest set of calipers. Masking all of the machined areas tonite, sandblasting tomorrow or Monday. Out gas and paint next chance I get after that, depends on work.

And to guys like Louie11, be patient. I do this at where I work, and I can only do this on Saturdays, before my shift or after my shift. But, I am in transition to moving the business to my home, and then I can work on them as much as I want after hours. From the time I get the calipers to the time UPS gets them, it should be three days tops-not business days.

Assuming the digi photos turn out ( i can review a photo immediately on the back of the camera, but sometimes when I put the card in the reader, it says nothing is there. Not a camera problem, it is a computer problem), I am photodocumenting the process. Smitty will host the photos, should they turn up. I hope so.

This will be quite interesting, because the owner who sent them to me truely gave me a basket case to correct. They arrived with brake fluid present, plenty of black spent brake pad and plenty of corrosion.

Once the electrician instally a special 120 volt 30 amp line, I will be good to go out of home. Needed for the curing oven.

Smitty, here is a thought. Buy your new rotors, and send me both the new and the old. Then sell the old ones.

Smitty, will e-mail you with details via AOL about today.