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I haven't done anything to my car in a long time (exterior wise) and i'm getting a little bit bored. i was thinking of painting my brake calipers red, do you guys think it'll look good with the car?

 
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as for me i think it wont look good but dont mind my thoughts.

 
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as long as you dont paint the drums...... it should look Ok. BTW howd that intallation go? Sorry I wasnt around, I ended up going to San Diego for the weekend.

 
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well, Rob from robear racing still hasn't gotten the coilovers yet so we had to put that off...we were going to put on the pulley instead but then because of the bad weather we decided to put that off too, haha.

hopefully, this sunday we can put on the pulley. i still need to get the belts though

 
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I was worried that if I painted mine it would look bad, but I did it anyway and it came out real good, I painted mine the same color as the car, and it came out fine.

I think if you painted them silver too, then it wouldnt look too bad, but thats just my thoughts.


Crashoveride

 
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Ummm, depends what color you do it... I did mine Red and I think its kinda ehhh, but it looks good with the car. Maybe if you do yours silver it wouldn't look bad.

 
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Exactly^^^ Paint them the same colour as the car and you cant go wrong and do the drums at the same time, I did my calipers and drums black just like my car and it looks good, IMO

 
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im thinkin about doing mine red soon.. so i say go for it.. and if u do.. do about 5 coats... and give it about 30 minz to dry each coat

 
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Painted Red.


Glossy.
Turned out pretty good. Just take time when you do this.
I used paint brush to do it. About 4-5 Coats.
You can buy VHT Caliper paint at any auto shops. I bought mine from Autozone.
$10 + Taxes.
Not too noticible..

 
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thanks for the input guys, i think silver is the safe way to go but red will of course stand out more and set the car apart from the other 2 million silver civics out there.

in the end after seeing civicvtec1ps' ride , i'm probably gonna go with red

 
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would that even look right?

 
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Yellow matches with red, but I don't know about the brake color. The yellow that they sell is like a pastel light yellow, unless you can find a bright taxi cab yellow caliper paint. If you could find like an orange color to paint just the calipers and not the drums, that would look cool. If I could find orange I'd change my whole sheme color to that insead of red.