painted calipers
10-23-2007, 05:29 AM
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Originally Posted by SuperBlack350z
i just don't get why people say they don't have money to spend on a BBK but paint their calipers and put a 350z sticker on it. What is the point of that? BBK should help with brake fade and has great looks. Basically the people who paint their calipers are only for looks. And the 350z sticker...i don't think it's necessary. I think everyone knows the car is a 350z, no reason to plaster it all over the car.
10-23-2007, 05:44 AM
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Originally Posted by z-u-later
Give me $2K and I'll buy BBK for my Z. Otherwise, not everyone has the $$$s to spend on a BBK. BTW, do you still have any Z emblems on your car? If you do, no reason to have it since like you stated, everyone knows the car is a 350Z. Just using your analogy . . .
10-23-2007, 05:47 AM
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Originally Posted by z-u-later
I originally painted my '06 calipers red and they looked okay. I recently re-painted the calipers black and I think it looks much better (it blends more with my smoked out look). I just need to get those silver decals to complete the look.
black is do-able......red is tacky
10-23-2007, 07:07 AM
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Originally Posted by SuperBlack350z
that's what i mean. It already has emblems on the car to know it's a 350z. Why add more stickers especially to the stock muliti piece caliper? What is the point of that? To have a sticker or to make it look like it's actually special or something? If you want ot paint it, paint it. But you are just bring more attention to a stock caliper. If you are buying bbk clearly for looks, you are just wasting money. Atleast make some type of use out of it. And no, i won't give you 2k, it seems if i give you a rattle can and couple of stickers, you would be quite happy with it.
10-23-2007, 07:11 AM
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Originally Posted by z-u-later
WTF newb!? Have you even tracked your Z? Seems like you spend more time in this forum than driving your car.
How would you come to the conclusion that i'm on this site too much? I didn't random track events would take so much of my time that i can't post on this website. Nice assumption though. Seems like i'm on this site a lot because i'm a car salesman so i'm on the internet a lot at work.
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10-23-2007, 12:40 PM
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im too broke to get a bbk at the current moment, between my z, and trying to ls1 swap my fd. mine are red and i like them like that, to each there own i guess. better than caliper covers lol. oem brembo or bbk in the future, but at the current moment, red is my color of choice.
11-05-2007, 05:14 PM
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I went w/ red. Although next spring I think I may go with black w/ white letters. The red fades fairly quickly and doesn't look nearly as good when first painted. I think you should paint the pads also. Makes the brakes look fuller than normal.
11-05-2007, 11:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Brrcats
I went red with white lettering on my DB, it looks really good in my opinion and was very easy to do, but time consuming if you choose to remove the calipers
11-06-2007, 02:57 AM
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Flat black ya'll, everything else's riced as ****.
Besides, our stock 1-piston calipers look like undersized crap inside those 18's and 19's we run. Why draw attention to them?
Besides, our stock 1-piston calipers look like undersized crap inside those 18's and 19's we run. Why draw attention to them?
11-06-2007, 06:01 AM
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Yeah, I was thinking of having my brembos powder coated red, but then decided it would look like rice, so I left 'em gold...
And I especially wouldn't paint a 1-pot base caliper red... Looks beyond cheap. Leave that kind of rice to the honda guys.
Now if you had a set of Stoptechs, AP Racing, Endless, or Brembo GTs.... Now we're talking! :-)
And I especially wouldn't paint a 1-pot base caliper red... Looks beyond cheap. Leave that kind of rice to the honda guys.
Now if you had a set of Stoptechs, AP Racing, Endless, or Brembo GTs.... Now we're talking! :-)
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11-10-2007, 10:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Silverstone-Z
Are you saying the same thing to Corvette owners and their brakes?
The base 350Z calipers look no different than the ones on a $10,000 Civic. We don't need to argue about that one, do we?
Painted calipers just bring the above fact out to the public even more.
I know it's everyone has a different preference, but just because you can walk around the streets naked doesn't mean you should do it, right?
And it's not so much "poor taste" because of just painting the calipers, but it is "poor taste" to paint a crap-looking caliper. If the 350Z comes equipped with 300ZX-like brakes then that's fine.
Too many 350Z people runs 20" rims and when you look inside the rims, this is what happens:
People: "What's that ping-pong-ball thingy you have on your brake discs?"
You answer: "Uhhh...it's my stock brake calipers.."
People: "WTF...I didn't know ping-pong ***** come in red..."
11-11-2007, 06:22 AM
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I would paint stock brakes black.
I had my AP racing bbk's black and I thought it looked great in person but it never picked up in pictures.
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I had my AP racing bbk's black and I thought it looked great in person but it never picked up in pictures.
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