Pianting my calipers!

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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 01:33 PM
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Pianting my calipers!

Anyone painted them white? My 03 TL_S in WDP and I thought about painting the calipers white. Any thoughts, opinions?

Any other color which may look good? I saw some red ones around here, not my style!

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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 01:44 PM
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i painted mine flat black to hide in the shadows. i've always gone with the school of thought that you hide stock calipers and show aftermarket or BBK. i think white will be too much of a distraction and too visible, but i would like to see it done.....
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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 01:44 PM
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white will get dirty from brake dust. black? blue? yello...
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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 01:50 PM
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I think I may go with blue....
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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 02:53 PM
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and white will clash with WDP.

Go gloss black.
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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 03:08 PM
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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by FirePR2002
i've always gone with the school of thought that you hide stock calipers and show aftermarket or BBK.
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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 04:39 PM
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Go with black. I did mine in a high gloss black.
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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 04:42 PM
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black or white... would look nice... even though having white would make brake dust show up like ass...
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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 05:05 PM
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^^^ changed my mind.... just saw a white porche with yellow calipers... looks pretty damn good.. go that route...
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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 05:05 PM
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Originally Posted by nsxnext
and white will clash with wdp.

Go gloss black.
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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 05:36 PM
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I painted mine black on my SSM CL, they turned out nice. I have a thread with pics and instructions in the CL forum.
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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 05:42 PM
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Black. Only.
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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 05:49 PM
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Originally Posted by CL-Slick
I painted mine black on my SSM CL, they turned out nice. I have a thread with pics and instructions in the CL forum.
hey 'Bama' post the link... you lazy bastard....








yes, in the time I posted this comment, I could have searched, so I am lazy... I am american, so sue me... actually, americans do a lot of that as well... maybe I will be the shut up now...
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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 06:14 PM
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Anyone seen the red big brake kit looking covers on ebay. I know its a lil to use fakes, but imo looks better than just painting some stock calipers.
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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 06:51 PM
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^^those covers are as gay as your suggestion...
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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by indoMFP
hey 'Bama' post the link... you lazy bastard....








yes, in the time I posted this comment, I could have searched, so I am lazy... I am american, so sue me... actually, americans do a lot of that as well... maybe I will be the shut up now...


Here is the link: https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...nting+calipers
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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 08:21 PM
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black or red or don't paint them IMO. Yellow, blue, green, white all look bad IMO. But hey it's your car. If you can't decide you could always paint them like a rainbow. Now that would be fagtastic!!!
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Old Sep 2, 2008 | 10:44 PM
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Originally Posted by FirePR2002
^^those covers are as gay as your suggestion...
It wasn't a suggestion, I think fake bbk calipers and painting stock calipers are both weak. You just saying "hey look i got stock calipers". I would spend $1,500 to $2,000 on a BBK rather than $50 for caliper paint, if I were not buying the shiznit out of assault rifles just in case no-guns-obama gets elected. (Check out atlanticfirearms.com, just picked up the del-ton ar-15 and about to order the lancaster arms russin red ak)
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