View Poll Results: What Color Calipers?
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 26. You may not vote on this poll
Painting Calipers?
s197 Junkie
Joined: Sep 2006
Posts: 16,088
From: IN
I'm going to have to disagree with you on this one....the gt500 has Brembo's on it and I still like my pink calipers better 
And to the OP's question....it is not hard at all to paint your brake calipers. I disassembled the brake calipers and pad from the the rotors so I wouldn't get paint all over the place. I used brush-on caliper paint and didn't have any brush strokes either. I do have a few pink dots on my garage floor now....
And to the OP's question....it is not hard at all to paint your brake calipers. I disassembled the brake calipers and pad from the the rotors so I wouldn't get paint all over the place. I used brush-on caliper paint and didn't have any brush strokes either. I do have a few pink dots on my garage floor now....
I think most agree that after painting they look 100x better than the stock gray/silver blah. Red and black always look good
Thread Starter
3rd Gear Member
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 667
From: Irvine / San Diego
well it sounds like red is the way to go. i never planned on doing black since then they just disappear. so it was between red and yellow (since it wiuld be different and unique and possibly still look good with the wheels i have) Unless of course yellow would stick out too much and not look as good. Any opnions on yellow vs. red?
Btw, could someone photoshop my calipers with both red and yellow so i could see what they look like? Thx.
Btw, could someone photoshop my calipers with both red and yellow so i could see what they look like? Thx.
2nd Gear Member
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 498
From: Boston, MA
I still say if you're going to scrutinize the details to this degree, then you should REALLY get rid of the ORANGE turn signals.. the red calipers will match the red markers on rear though!
It's beoming a pet peeve of mine when I see S197s with orange turn signals clashing with the car's color even in MAGAZINES!
It's beoming a pet peeve of mine when I see S197s with orange turn signals clashing with the car's color even in MAGAZINES!
5th Gear Member
Joined: Apr 2007
Posts: 4,460
From: WV
4th Gear Member
Joined: Jun 2008
Posts: 1,259
From: Newark, Delaware
I still say if you're going to scrutinize the details to this degree, then you should REALLY get rid of the ORANGE turn signals.. the red calipers will match the red markers on rear though!
It's beoming a pet peeve of mine when I see S197s with orange turn signals clashing with the car's color even in MAGAZINES!
It's beoming a pet peeve of mine when I see S197s with orange turn signals clashing with the car's color even in MAGAZINES!
I think one of the edgiest things you can do to a stang, especially a dark-colored one, is switch in clear or smoked turn markers.
