painting caliper help?

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Hey I just finished cleaning my calipers and everything. But, first off i have black, red, and grey/silver paint. But, on my black car i don't know what i want to do. I was gonna do all red but thats too much red for a car with no red at all. I've decided i really like the 2 tone look, but i dont know if i want the main part red, and the minor part black, vice versa. Black/silver, black/red, silver/black, silver/red and on which part of the caliper each paint should go...

Does any1 have any ideas or any black cars with similar colored calipers?

 

[toplessmustang]

i did all mine in red, i get compliments all the time on them.

 

[94GTLaserRC]

Personally, I think it's a no-lose situation...IF you do a nice clean job, red will look nice. Silver always looks good on black.

Get a piece of just paint a piece of poster board cut the shape of a caliper and see what you like.

RC

 

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i ended up doing black on the main caliper and silver on the minor piece. I like the way it turned out. Now just to put them on the stang in the morning! Any tips or something i should know before changing the calipers?

 

[94GTLaserRC]

i ended up doing black on the main caliper and silver on the minor piece. I like the way it turned out. Now just to put them on the stang in the morning! Any tips or something i should know before changing the calipers?

PICS???

 

[Caldwell]

Personally, I think it's a no-lose situation...IF you do a nice clean job, red will look nice. Silver always looks good on black.

RC

I did silver on black and get compliments all the time.
I did both the fonts and the rears.

 

[95BLKGT5.0]

Caldwell

That looks so SWEET with the Saleen rims.
I am going to do mine the same.

 

[hillie16]

I would go red, with what you have, I went blue myself, to be different.

 

[94GTLaserRC]

I did silver on black and get compliments all the time.
I did both the fonts and the rears.

Except on YOUR car

RC

 

[BlueOvalStangGT]

Heres my silver ones, on a black car as well.

 

[Caldwell]

Caldwell

That looks so SWEET with the Saleen rims.
I am going to do mine the same.

thanks man
appreciate it.

RC's just jealous because his rebel rims don't throw the bling bling he always wanted

 

[NastE50]

I just bought some blue caliper paint tonight at Autozone from VHT. They only had red, yellow, blue, and silver. I got the blue. Right next to those paints was the Hi-temp engine and header paints. I would rather have the bright Ford blue as the caliper paint is more like the dark Ford blue. Could I use the engine and header paint on my caliper instead of the stuff I bought? Is there really a difference?

 

[94GTLaserRC]

thanks man
appreciate it.

RC's just jealous because his rebel rims don't throw the bling bling he always wanted

Sorry, gotta have bling on the rims.

Kevin...Tell us about that lettering on the brakes....looks sharp!
RC

 

[BlueOvalStangGT]

Sorry, gotta have bling on the rims.

Kevin...Tell us about that lettering on the brakes....looks sharp!
RC

MUHAHAHAha my lil secret..... Actually I bought these brake decals off ebay which you can get in a bunch of different colors. Then I added 3 coats of high temp silver, then a coat of clear, then the decals and then 3 more coats of clear. Look so nice with clean rims. Those are the PBR calipers BTW.

 

[94GTLaserRC]

MUHAHAHAha my lil secret..... Actually I bought these brake decals off ebay which you can get in a bunch of different colors. Then I added 3 coats of high temp silver, then a coat of clear, then the decals and then 3 more coats of clear. Look so nice with clean rims. Those are the PBR calipers BTW.

I have PBR's btw....I polished them, but they dont look too too great. What do you search for on ebay?

RC