There you go when i had my gold maxima i was about to paint them the same color like this 350Z to the best caliper for the color of your car is bronze

 

go with red, the contrast with your gm rims will be sick

 

I made mine red, and it came out pretty good.

 

Paint them sliver......you can buy a GR2 Paint System from me for $25 shipped.

 

I like the bronze.

Rogue

 

Daytona Yellow... I'm still getting used to it but its growing on me. Looks best from a distance... a long distance.

 

 

 

hmm, maybe not on a beige car. looks like you tried to match but were off a little bit. better to contrast than to match or be close.

 

Paint them invisible, that way it will look like you don't have brakes!!

 

I was thinkin about this too... Can some one post a new link to the sticky how to or sumthin?????

 

yes your right about the contrast if i go with bronze. dammit, maybe i should just paint it black, so you could see the beauty of the rims?

 

How to paint the brake rotors and calipers: JP's technique
Just did this on Monday in black.

(This works best with a can of paint and a brush.)

Supplies:
- Latex Gloves (or just get your hands dirty and clean em later)
- Masking tape
- Can of high heat paint (black bbq, or the expensive foliatec type stuff)
- 1" brush
- 3 or 4 cans of brake cleaner
- small steel bristle brush
- some cleaning wipes

For Safety purposes, DO THIS ON LEVEL GROUND.

Hint: Do this on a partly sunny day (75-85 degrees) - Humidity is BAD for paint.

Steps:
1. jack up car and place on jack stands
2. take off wheels
3. thoroughly clean brake calipers and rotors
4. remove caliper pistons and carefully position on top of hub (no need to remove brake line)
5. remove brake pads (make sure you remember how they go back in)
6. remove upper and lower metal clips from the caliper bracket (clean them w metal brush and spray)
7. if doing the fronts, pull handbrake and put car in neutral. (so you can turn the rotor as you work)
8. using plenty of little pieces of tape, cover the rotor surface that is shiny. (ie the part that touches the brake pads) Just do the outer facing side.
9. Now you can go to town on painting.
10. Paint the center of the rotor and outside circumference (where it tends to rust)
11. Paint the Caliper piston and bracket
12. it's ok to let the piston dry on top of the dustshield/hub. no one's gonna see an imperfection on the bottom of it.
13. Go have a drink and come back in an hour or two.
14. Remove the tape from the rotor surface. (admire your handywork)
15. Now reassemble the brakes. make sure those metal clips are clean and greased.
16. Double check your reassembly work.
17. Touch up any imperfections you made to the paint while reassembling.
17. Put the wheels back on and stand back. (oooo..beautiful)
18. Go for a nice long ride to cure the paint.

Spray paint: this requires a bit more prep to prevent overspray from getting on parts you don't want. Easiest way is with a cut up garbage bag and tape.

Feel free to add more tips if you got em.

 

GO with bronze/gold. Red looks good on darker colored cars. Bronze would look sweet.

Good luck....

 

 

I voted bronze....

 

i painted my black just to keep it clean and simple

 

BTW what kinda brakes did you get?

 

I painted mine red. I wish I painted mine black because my new brake pads are blue. It looks like a freaken American flag down there with my silver (almost white) wheels.

 

i painted mine black. make sure u use a lotta newspaper and masking tape to mask off areas you don't want to paint. i actually unbolted my calipers when i painted mine, just cuz i needed to change the pads anyway. it's up to you. oh and i would clean the calipers with brake cleaner first. i used a few coats of black high temp engine enamel. you should be good to go.

 

paint them chrome and paint the nissan lettering black.

 

There is no Nissan on our calipers

For the people wanting instructions, just google or read the instructions that come with the kit. Its not hard

 

i was thinking painting it red and putting the letters brembo on it, but i dont know if the sticker would come off

 

On a 1 piston caliper?

I really hope you are being sarcastic......

 

DING DING DING.


Don't need to show off your painted caliper. A lot of ppl got red and some have even regretted it.

 

hhm so no red??

 

Nah, go Gold. Def. go with Gold. IMO I think it's the nicest, sleekest when you match your calipers with the color of your car. Maybe that's just me, but I think the sh*t would look tough.

 

go gold...like a skyline...gold looks sooo nice on any color car...

 

uhm guys... too late


lol i painted them red and they look hot.. if anything ill paint them back gold..

 

Everyone has red. Go with yellow like they did on the Porsche Carrera GT. Wow.

 

can never go wrong with red

 

well i did the ebc and drilled slotted, but the rotors are rusting now since it rained? wtf?? they are brembo too

 

Seems like all of our rotors rust for some reason in the center and along the edge.

Best thing to do is paint those areas with high heat paint.

 

hhm maybe i should do a poll on that loll

 

I think red calipers with wide open rims look awesome on the highway

 

I went with a blueish gray. I think it would be cool if you could paint yours the same color as the car. I didn't want black rotors or I would have followed my own advice. I also painted mine on the car. Overspray is removed by your brake pads so I masked what I could but wasn't too worried about overspray.

 

Looks nice and clean!

 

black - it goes great on pebble beige as both you and i know. red is cool but overplayed.

 

looks like unfinished primer

 

i saw on a 300zx "nissan" rotors. i want to get some.

if i were to paint mine, since i have that maroon color, i was thinking just black. but...it probably would just blend in. bronze and red conflict with maroon man.