Ok there are four different colors that I am looking at for my calipers:

Blue
Silver
Black
Yellow

I cant really find the blue anywhere but those other three i can. I want to get your guys opinions on what you think will look good. I'm getting the caliper kit that comes with the paint in the can and the brush since i can only find chrysler orange in a spray can

And which ever caliper paint I go with my engine cover will be the same color im thinking.
Thanks

 

red n blue are kinda ricey.. On ur silver, i'd go with black or silver

 

black

 

I have black painted calipers on my SSM and it looks great IMO. I uses the same paint as you too.

 

i say black, sorta neutral color

but i think you should do AM for engine color

 

yea everyone has red...

I have to drive to San Leandro Ca to get the AM paint.. unless you guys know a place that does it online...Looks like i'll be going with black.. haha my cousin did his engine bay green but that is just tacky on a TL

 

I have black, nice and clean

 

do any of you guys have pics of the black?

 

i remember chewknow did his black in his brake/rotor DIY.
theres a few close up and and a pic with the wheel on

 

here, i felt like seeing it again myself
https://acurazine.com/forums/2g-tl-performance-parts-modifications-116/diy-rotors-pads-%2A%2Ahow-w-pictures%2A%2A-620983/

 

black is the best out of those colors

 

black all the way

 

looks like I will be going black thanks guys

 

one more voice for black!

 

i have black...

do black

/thread

 

black or dont paint them at all. Other colors shouldnt even be an option.

 

ok now for the engine cover bay i want to do it my color. Any website that you guys know of that can have that paint to me by saturday?

 

silver or black.

 

- Never used them, but have seen links for them in threads from time-to-time.

http://www.paintworldinc.com/default.aspx

 

thanks bearcat ill give them a call 2morrow and see if they can express ship it or something

 

yellow

personally i like bronze though...

 

get G2 caliper paint kit in Black...

 

^i seen that on fleabay whats the diff between that and dupli color?

 

I say either barbie pink or neon green....



or BLACK

 

I've got an ABP TLS, and the center of the spoke wheels on it are real small-shows a lot of rotor hub and caliper through the wheels. All that stuff was real rusty looking too, making look even worse.
I painted the center of the rotors and the caliper and brackets with anodized blue caliper paint I found at Auto Zone. The anodized blue does not match ABP, but is pretty close. I get a fair amount of comments about it, a lot people really seem to like it. Other than the ICW 10 spoke wheels, car is completely stock. I may get tired of it and go back with gloss black.

 

somebody ought to tell the owner of this quick then!

 

its ricey when its not factory. Or stock calipers at that.

 

idk.. i agree on alot of things when it comes to rice...

but i have to disagree on caliper paint being rice. every type of car enthusiast practices this. from honda civics to old school hot rods.
sure it would be cool to have brembo brakes on all of my cars. but if somebody pays for brembo brakes on any car thats not running road courses at a competitive level, they are the ones looking like fools on the road.

factory brakes or not, painting nasty ass grimey calipers makes the appearance of the wheel area on the car look much nicer. even with a black finish.

its a lose lose world here sometimes... one guy powdercoats all of his factory engine bay parts and thats cool. next guy gets his calipers painted, and hes rice.

if you stick a brush between your spokes and paint your calipers.. ok your kinna ricey.. but if you remove them, clean them, make nice even coats and try to keep them semi-clean.. theres nothing cheap or rice about that.. i did car shows for about 3 years when i was younger, i can promise some of those guys could buy small shares of brembo brakes, but preferred to paint the stockies any day of the week.

idk.. sorry about the rant.

 

i don't think red is ricey, with the right car color and mods it looks really nice. like CJITTY's

but blue is another story...its alot harder to make blue calipers look good

 

blue would look best on neutral colors... black, dark grey etc:

or if you were able to paint them Factory blue to match your abp that would be sweet.

idk if you could get high heat factory paint though

 

I was thinking about going Blue actually...I have an AM but I think Black will prevail here as I'm blacking out the heads and tails..All in personal choice, as long as you don't do something crazy like yellow or green.

 

I would do black with silver, looks kinda clean.... I painted my calipers red (I got NBP) and the paint got scraped off because of the tire fawks at Walmart....

 

You just said it yourself. A show car. It all depends on the car and style it is shooting for. I have been doing car shows for 7 years now. A car that has a custom paint job, color matching engine bay componets, and calipers is fine. Take a TL that is no way a show car and slap on painted calipers is rice. When i see painted calipers, I think of teenagers with civics and intergras that fix up their cars with autozone parts and cant afford true performance. Brembo brakes, spoon calipers, wilwood, etc are mainly for show, unless if you are a track guy. Dont degrade the status of the beautiful TL by painted the calipers red, yellow, green, pink etc.

 

i used shows as an example that there isnt a specific crowd that does this.
anyone can paint calipers.. even the guys who drop 20k on their cars in mods.

your right... red calipers on a stock TL is kind of dumb.. but alot of people here are far from stock, if not, enough to pull something off as small as painted brake calipers... which really only requires wheels and a drop.

 

Anyone can do whatever they want. To each his own. This is why we mod cars, so we can express our sense in style and fashion.

 

in that case....



pink.

 

i'll take that bet..

rep points for you if you dare

 

IMO, attracting attention to single-piston, OEM calipers on small rotors using flashy colors is rice.

 

rainbow!

 

But all the silly headlight painting & blacking, debadging, lips, body kits, etc. is NOT ricey......I see....

Hell, half the posts on here get derailed into somebody talking about blacking out their headlight housing or some shit......JMO