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Talking Painted Calipers....*Pics*
Ok well I've had the paint for a while and today my dad and I weren't doing anything so I decided to paint the calipers. Opinions welcome.


A close up pic. Everyone usually goes red....I wanted to be different.


A distance pic.

Please opinions welcome. And yes the car will be dropped next weekend.

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looks awesome!!
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I wouldv'e painted them a different color...like blue or red always looks good, but great job. How long did it take? Factory rotors?
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Originally posted by born2xLr8
I wouldv'e painted them a different color...like blue or red always looks good, but great job. How long did it take? Factory rotors?
The reason why I painted them white is because most people I know paint them red or blue, just tryin to be a little different. All in all it took about 45 minutes. All we did was tape off the area around it and then put a peace of cardboard where ever we were spraying. Yes they are factory rotors for now......:devil:
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the all white scheme looks great!
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Thanks sg2kca, atleast someone agreed wit me
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I love the way they look. Great job man
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Looks great!!
Make damn sure you did not even get a little bit of paint on your rotors or brake pads though, cause your brakes will stick when you stomp on them! (happened to me)
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Wouldnt it be easier and better if you removed the caliper and painted them? And do most of these caliper paint comes in spray or paint?
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now u need calipers for the rear....
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They look really sweet and it goes well with the all white scheme as sg2kca said. Good job keep it up.
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Looks pretty cool. Oughta be fun to keep clean.
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anyone know if there is a red caliper paint that matches rally red?
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Nice job, just make sure you dont get brake cleaner near them. It isnt a good thing.
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i painted my ish red, it turned out good i will post pics later, but i used i high temp primer and a regular red paint. nice looking calipers.
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i think you need a drop but nice calipers
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Well I ordered my goldlines from Tornactive on thursday so hopefully I get them in this sometime this week and I can put them on sunday. Just to clarify to everyone....I used 1500 degree high temp paint.
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Thats cool bro
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gee....i envy u dude....my dad would never spend time with
me doing something i enjoy....


btw....i like the calipers. good work....my red caliper turned out sloppy


has anyone ever taken off the caliper and the brake fluid poured out?
yup....i had no brake pressure and i had to drive two miles to the
nearest shop (down shift to slow down and ebrake when desperate)
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yea yeah....pretty stupid to drive without brakes


i know i know.....
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Originally posted by Vinh
yea yeah....pretty stupid to drive without brakes


i know i know.....
we were going to try to remove the whole caliper but then I remember someone telling me to becareful not to let "something" leak, and I really didn't want to take any chances. LoL
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Thanks sg2kca, atleast someone agreed wit me
I have nothing against them. It's all good
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love the all white.....car looks sick now just get a little body kit and it will be off the hook!
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u did a good job, but hve fun keepign them clean, the red ones I have are hard enough to keep clean
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good god man, you need to lower that bitch ASAP!

your wheel gap = eeewww!
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Well crap. I didn't know Tornactive was in CANADA! LoL. Now I am going to have to wait till the 15th to get them in and I suppose I can put them on that sunday! Grrr. I thought I would be gettin the goldlines in earlier than that. Oh well.
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We are NOT in Canada

We are in CALIFORNIA!!!

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looks good again i like the whole white theme you got going. Time to paint those mirrors
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did you spray it to white?

how did you mask the surrounding area? the area is really small, how did you mask them without having any paint goes into spaces??

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I bascially masked the areas around it, that took the longest part. The rest of it was just holding the cardboard behind where I was spraying. It got a little bit on the disc but we just spun it and whiped it off with the cleaner. By the way. I have pics of the car dropped, I just can't seem to load em up off my camera because of the damn bateries
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