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02-15-2006, 06:59 PM

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jesus, that red paint is HOT! im definatley doing that.

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02-15-2006, 07:28 PM

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I used a high temp spray paint that you can pick up at any local auto parts store. If you want the name brand and name of color I will have to give that to you later tonight when I get home.

+1 i didnt even take the wheels off. i just wrapped newspaper around the spokes. took me like 30 sec per caliper

*note this pic is after a full season of autoX and some road racing ive touched them up since then*

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02-16-2006, 05:53 AM

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I didn't take off my wheels also. But from the picture did you even paint yours?

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02-16-2006, 06:02 AM

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I didn't take off my wheels also. But from the picture did you even paint yours?

i painted them back silver. i burnt them up at the track!

here is what they looked like before i painted them... maybe you can tell the difference now

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02-16-2006, 06:10 AM

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LOL OK! Looks much better now and notice two sets of wheels?

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02-16-2006, 06:14 AM

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yeah i scarred by rotors up so bad i had to get new slotted rotors ,pads and i figured it was a good time to get nismo wheels aswell.

the thing i like about the wide spokes on the nismos are i can just touch up spray the calipers anytime i want

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