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Any comments, opinions, ideas, questions?

 

after is sexyer

 

I wouldn't paint my calipers unless they were worth looking at. (i.e. Z32s/4+ piston)

 

Nice!! Much, much better IMO. Good job. Whatever you do, don't spray brake cleaner on them, or the paint will run.

 

how long did it take you?

 

Yeah i wanna get nice ones, but i couldnt stand looking at the rust in the meantime

 

the first one took about two hours with setting up and figuring out what i was doing, after that about a little over an hour each, letting about 20 minutes between coats. I used duplicolor ceramic caliper paint and couldnt drive for 24 hours after putting the tires back on.

 

Same color as mine. I wanted to make mine look like the 300zx ones.

 

personal opinion? they match the wheels good. they both look haggard.

 

too close to the car to tell. get a full shot of the side of the car. it'll help to see how it fits the car. otherwise, yea, of course a colored caliper is gonna look better than a rusted one...

 

why did you paint the center cap
but yeah, too close to tell...
I am going to paint mine, but either paint it black or silver.. subtleness

 

It looks good...
take a full pic of ur car though....

 

hence the reason why my calipers remain covered in rust

 

I some how knew they would be red before even clicking to view the thread.

 

How does painting them red make them look like 300zx calipers?

 

looks cleaner...
since i am thinking to paint mine as well..what if i spray them while its on the car with the surroundings taped up?
any opinions?

 

Looks pretty good there....

 

If you're doing them on the car, I'd just use the brush method. I don't feel comfortable with spray paint anywhere near my car after a Wiper Arm painting incident on one of my old cars.

To the OP, looks like you did a good job with those. I was thinking about painting mine red but I think it'd be a little "Red Overload" on my car.

 

not i think it will match nicely if u DONT get any more read aside from the calipers. it would be a nice low key touch.

 

I wouldn't have anything red unless I had a BBK.. and that does not include 300zx brakes.. To me that's not even close.

I'm gonna have to paint mine and they're gonna be silver or black.





Good job though.. you put forth the effort and if you like them, then it obviously paid off.

 

Looks great! I'm thinking about the doing the same thing.

 

you will get sick of those wheels pretty quickly. even my grandmother has them

 

very nice what kind of calipers are those?

 

wait, wth did you paint the center cap?..

 

Should of left the wheel cap gold though.

 

So 4 piston calipers arent even close?
The Z32 calipers and larger rotors make a BBK so the calipers should at least be 50% of a BBK right???

 

hmmmmm GOOD QUESTION!!!!!!!

 

OEM A32 calipers.

 

I think it looks better, except for the center cap-would have left it alone, cant go wrong with silver, I did mine and think if you have rims silver always looks appealing.

 

It was originally Gold, but I agree I think it would have looked better Silver.

 

Gassian - Dont spray them at all, I bought the spray and it ran bad when i tested it out. the Duplicolor caliper paint kit was awesome, had everything you need minus a wire brush and sandpaper.

Nearthisbridge - thanks, I think you should do yours in a silver, that would look sick with the red

Nas and Apparition- the center cap was gold, which i absolutely hate on a car, so I thought it would look good if i painted it to match the calipers, I have red highlights in a few other places so i thought it would tie in together, and i think it looks better that way.

thanks to everyone else who thought it looked good, and i know its only stock calipers but it was good practice for future nice calipers and rotors, and i got to see if I'd like the color before painting an expensive set.

 

I would have painted the calipers gold. Sweet!

 

Thats what color mine are,.

 

Powder goat is better.

 

I got mines painted as well. The red makes 'em stand out for real! 1+ that one bro!

 

calipers look good, better than the stock look. personally i would have gone with a different color but to each his own.

 

that looks sick bro, very clean and sleek, cant wait to get nice calipers like yours.

 

Powder goat?.. hmm.

 

Sounds kinky... . . . . ... ........... ... .

 

'preciate that homie! wait till the TL retrofit headlights, tokico springs (both by mid summer), and paint job (by fall) come. it should be a. ok then mane.