on brakes. I consider myself to have a decent eye for tasteful mods on the Z but am stuck on painting brake calipers. I have to admit I like the look if colors used tie the car color in well. What are boards thoughts?

 

black is about the only color i would paint a oem stock Mitsubishi/non brembo caliper.

Everything else is the ghey...

-J

 

^^+1

 

what about grey.. i think that looks more oem than anything..

 

On previous cars, I've always painted them black regardless of the color. I have however seen some painted red with auto manufacturer sticker on top. It looked tasteful and OEM.

 

Be honest and say I never thought of black.

 

black




Edit: Don't make fun of my wheel gap

Tranceformer sucks *****.

 

I think paint matched to your car or black, everything else screams lolsmallbbk to me. personal opinion.

 

I painted them red for awhile and decided it looked too ricey for me, so I painted them black and put a small silver Nissan decal on them...

 

Standard calipers painted = teh ghey

 

Not all can afford a BBK....

 

Just my opinion. To paint something is to highlight it. Its like saying "look at my average brakes!" Not for me...

 

Agreed...to each his own

 

Thanks for the pics. The black looks less obvious than the stock "nasty as hell" I have now.

 

I agree. Get the caliper paint kit from Autozone/Pep Boys, it costs about $15 and comes with high temp caliper paint, a brush and brake cleaner. Its pretty easy, just clean the calipers, mask off areas you don't want paint and put about three coats on.

 

Nice wheel gap, Mr. President.

 

Matte black is acceptable.

Everything else is teh ghey.

 

I've changed my name.
Miley Cyrus is now standing in for McCain.

 

I painted mine red. Not so much for people to look at them and say "Oooh, those stock brakes are HOT!", but because I liked a little color against my silver car. Same reason I bought a Z with orange seats. Not so anyone would be impressed with my stock seats, but because I like a little pop of color.

 

I painted mine red and I'm pretty happy with the way they look.