This question may have been asked before, but no search feature... Question is what would be the best color to paint the brake calipars? What color is the easiest to maintain? I have a 2003 Silver Maxima with Titanium rims, so i was thinking a chrome paint or silver would look nice... has anyone tried those colors? Give me some advice for a good color... thanks!

 

Black or something silverish.

Brighter colors just look rice to me.

 

I'm painting mine black today

 

the calipars are like a dark grey anyway, do you think black would show up?

 

I don't want them to 'show up' just be tastefully finished.

 

hey, if its not trouble, post some pics.....

 

What color is your car?

 

black or red...i like red personally...but as long as it goes with the car...i think it's fine...

 

Everytime i see your car, i cant get enough.. I went to your webpage and the red is not bad looking at all... actually it goes very nicely with your color.. I will just wait and see how other peoples looks, or what they recommend..

 

I agree. That's why I painted mine silver. Didn't want to distract from the car or wheels. Here a shot(before the drop)of the front caliper for you.

 

Nice!

 

i was gonna say black bu the silver looks awesome. might look good to have it bright silver like JJS's

 

dont paint em a color....keep em simple..black, dark gray, silver....nothing rice

 

Not mine...I haven't painted them yet, but having seen the silver I might go that route!!!

 

Thanks for the compliment, its my wheel that's shown above. FYI, I used the G2 caliper paint instead of Folia Tec.

Mike

 

Very "tasteful" I love it! Do they get dirty easily?

 

what is the difference? Advantages and Disadvantages? Length of time to dry? And how many coats did you put? Is this paint high temp?

 

There is no real difference between G2 and Foliatec. They are both aircraft grade enamel, and both will last a long time. Both look great... part of it is ensuring that you clean the dust off of your car and clean your wheels real good (something a car wash WON'T do)... it's best to put two good, solid coats on, with 15 min drying time in between coats (best to do TWO calipers at once... front end, then rear end).

The paint is high temp... the best possible.

Red is best for a dramatic effect, as well as blue or yellow... silver and black are more 'subtle', but look sharp (like on Oxidizer's Max). Just do a color combination that doesn't look 'rice'.

-R

 

I was planning on it

 

I think i may have to change my name... "but look sharp (like on Oxidizer's Max)" sounded kinda cheesy with that name....

thanks for the info!

 

I used the red paint by G2. Only problem is when they get dirty they look real bad.

 

I painted mine red. Most people like it, some dont. I dont think its ricey, i've seen some newer cars come stock with them painted red (Pontiac i believe and Porsche) go to my homepage for pics

 

With silver? I like blue calipers...

 

True performance cars and true crap cars. Hmmm...still not good arguments for red Max calipers.

 

Red isnt bad at all, but it looks a little dark... but red is sweet with white... And so far silver is not a bad color, but I am torn between silver and red.... Honestly, i would like my calipars to get noticed.. and by that i dont mean i want to paint them flaming pink and get noticed and my butt kicked too.... with silver its a very hard chose, and i am waiting to see how black looks.. Has anyone coated theirs same as their body color? That would be interesting...

 

Short of black, I don't think this is likely since high temp paints might not work well with OEM color pigments.

 

I like silver........

 

Wow, i figured, but i still had to ask the dumb questions.. there are a lot of people here who keep surprising me.. so i figured there might be someone....

 

There is someone: Link

 

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Boggles the mind!!!

 

better gas milage..... well, not everything is possible!

 

this guy from the link knows what he is doing!




this guy doesnt:

 

...but how about grinding them? People from my friend's board use a dremmel with a wire brush attachment. Apparently it brings out a nice silver shine without the mess of paint *edit*.

 

how do you grind them? isnt that damaging them?

 

RED!!!

 

red. check out my homepage

 

and that grill isn't rice? RED

 

What do you guys think about gold calipers on a black 2k3 max? Not yellowy gold but the gold like on the brembos of the g35...

 

On a dark color, that would look nice.. silver and red arent bad either...

 

I think grind was too strong a word. Apparently you just "shine" them with a rotating wire brush on a Dremmel. It basically polishes the surface to a nice silver luster.

I haven't done this myself yet, but people on the Accord board my friend is on have done it sucessfully. I'll see if I can dig up a link.