Wow, you **** looks hot dude, great work, lovin those rims too...

 

I like what I see. I will add the silver lettering on my black calipers. Tks.

 

Silver with Black letters for me.

 

Some sharp looking combinations out there

 

Red with white lettering.

 

on blue car i would go with silver....dont go yellow/red/orange

 

I have majestic blue and I would go silver also.

 

I am going to try and revive this thread. The other day I was thinking about what color to paint my calipers.

With the G2 or Duplicolor is it possible to mix colors? For instance, could I mix red and gold/copper and come up with a metallic orange? Or would the cermaic based paints not mix well?

Has anyone expreimented with this? Might be interesting.

 

It should work fine to mix paints. Here is my red 300zx brakes on my Onyx:

 

I was just browsing this thread and I had the same idea. I was thinking of painting my caliper silver and painting the thin part black with silver nissan letters. My car is liquid silver I thought this would give a good transition instead of just one color. I guess I will see in a couple of weeks when I change my brakes and rotors.

 

How much is that wheel/rim package, what size are they? Maybe when my tires are shot ill just get new rims for something different..ive always liked those mesh wheels.

 

Here is my caliper with gold letters:

 

here are the rims...... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/18-AD...65125857QQrdZ1 they are made for the scions mostly..... I went the adr's website and you can find a dealer on there for your area...... nice wheels by the way.....

 

Hi there, do I need to remove the calipers in order to do the paint????
How easy is to paint the calipers mounted??? If this is not the way to paint them, how easy is to remove them???

Thanks.

 

I painted my stock brakes without removing the calipers but if I were to do it again, I'd remove them. Only two bolts and they are off except for brake line which u really dont wanna disconnect. I painted my 300zx calipers while they were off the car, and then touched them up while on the car.

 

Thanks for the info, looking to paint calipers in RED with white BREMBO stickers, I'm sure it will look nice

 

O4BlackMaxx - Ran me a little over $2K thru Discount Tire. Just did alot of research on different mesh rims before I bought. Got a lot of good feedback and advice from the org

Sorry forgot to add the rims are 19x8.5

 

Why not just buy Nissan logo caliper decals from Xenonmods.com? Do you really want to put a Brembo label on something that is obviously not Brembo? Just a thought.

Red ought to look hot with the pearl white.

 

I agree. Red with white NISSAN letters would look great.

 

I spent my Saturday painting my calipers. I went with red on the onyx Maxima and white Nissan decals. I may change it to black calipers with silver decals in the future (I like how JiuJitsu's looks).

For now, let me know what you all think:

 

Really sharp. Similar to my color combo except I have gold letters

 

Yeah, only you have those super-cool 300ZX calipers vice my chinsy OEM calipers. Ha! Just a sliiiiiight difference, don't you think?

 

Well, I agreethat the 300zx calipers are much more dynamic looking which is why I got them. But painting the OEM calipers is a ncie quick way to go until you decide to really upgrade the brakes. I got many compliments from painting my calipers and some people thought they were bigger brakes. I realyl am pleased with my Z brakes and its great bang for the buck.

 

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on the Red but I used gold lettering.

 

Chern: Loving ur ride more and more. Nice pic!!!

 

And that's Ramberg's ride in my garage...

 

I really want to paint my calipers, but do not have the tools/resources/mechanical ability to do so... Can anyone reccommend any shops near LA/Orange/Riverside County? I already bought the paint kit...

 

TOOLS!!!!! You dont need any tools.....just need to take your wheels off.......I did one side at a time......I used that stuff called G2 (it brushes on) SUPER EASY.....dont pay to have someone do this

 

Its simple, Just take your wheels off, clean the caliper and paint away.
Dont waste yo money paying some one to this.

 

Exactly, I am not the most mechanically savvy person on the forum and I did it myself. I didn't even unbolt the calipers from the rotors because I may still change the color later.

Just jack up your car, remove the tire, mask off the boots and brake pad clips and paint away. Just plan to do it when you don't need your car for a day. You need to allow about 12-24 hours to let the paint set up. And the deals are uber-easy.

 

Also, with wheels that big and that transparent, you really should. IMO, on smoke, either red or black would look the best. Offset either color with silver decals.

 

Well I bought the black G2 caliper paint kit and i got silver nissan decals. Just need to do it I guess, but I dont even have a usable garage or driveway, and i couldnt see myself doing this on the street, which is also why id rather just take it to a shop or something....

 

anyone ever had a problem with xenonmods.com....its been a month already and still havent received my nissan caliper stickers...

 

I just ordered some 2 weeks ago, they came a week later, no problems here.

 

Pick up the...

No problem here either, mine came in less than a week...

 

Mine came very quickly, too.

 

Which Color Would look best for my Smoke??? Did anyone sand the calipers down to smooth out the texture on them???

 

I lightly sanded mine just to get the surface rust off of them. I was really surprised that one had rusted and also how little paint was actually on them from the factory (which is probably why my left front was starting to rust). I personally like having the texture on them, so I just lightly sanded by hand.

 

I sanded my stock calipers down til they were smooth. When I did my 300zx calipers, I filed off the "SUMITOMO" letters and some other numbers and they looks SOOOOOOO much better.

 

Nice work! You can't even see where you filed that stuff off.