New daylight pics added.
I cannot stand silver calipers, every since had my Vette I have always liked red calipers.

 

LOL That one of my first DIY cheap mods I did also. However I went black. Looks good!

 

nice..doin mine soon as well!!

 

Yup.. def looks better. I did it too a few months ago.

 

usarmyttt

Looks great. Was this sprayed or brushed? It appears to be a fairly easy mod. I am assuming that you removed the wheels.

Can you post a total outdoor side view of the car when you get a chance? I would be interested myself, but first would like to get a better "feel" of it.

Happy New Year to all.

Back to work tomorrow. Damn the luck.

 

i went black also. I wasn't feeling the colored ones. The brakes are just too small to look good colored imho

 

pics?

 

I did this in black as well, the calipers practically disappeared under the wheels, I'll never do that again, I like the red much better.

Chris

 

I will post daylight pics later, I brush the paint on, I am to worried about overspray.Take your time and tape off good and its easy.

 

you said you hand painted this on? did you remove the wheels or go through the spokes?

 

oh no, I took the wheels off and took the calipers apart. I did NOT un hook the lines though. Two bolts per and it makes it alot easier to do.

 

thats what i figured but i would have been very impressed if you didnt lol

 

Looks good!

 

Were you calipers non brembo? I want to paint mine but i have an ENTH so i dont have brembos and i was wondering if it would be ricerish to paint stock calipers? Either way, it looks awesome man.

 

ok well i like the look of red on those calipers, but those look stock.

and i dont know how i feel about paint on my calipers.

I really want to have my Brembo's repowder coated so that they are the red version brembo's (like you see on Aston Martin's). My car is redline and i think it would be pretty cool to have matching brembo calipers. Anyone ever seen that done?

 

obviously they're not brembos...........


The ricerish-ness is to each man a different perspective

 

The OPs calipers are non brembo.

 

looks clean... what paint did you use? Anything special.. or any special steps since they are brakes?

 

See this is what happens when everybody's post their "Look what I did" in separate threads in the wrong forums. We have multiple threads about the same thing all working at or near the same time.

More red non Brembo with stickers
https://my350z.com/forum/brakes-and-suspension/133022-paint-calipers.html
https://my350z.com/forum/brakes-and-suspension/124116-red-hot-chili-calipers.html

Painted Black non brembos
https://my350z.com/forum/brakes-and-suspension/158650-painted-brakes.html

Brembo powder coating pics
https://my350z.com/forum/brakes-and-suspension/230382-painting-brembo-calipers.html

Painted Brembo pics
https://my350z.com/forum/brakes-and-suspension-diy/235721-how-to-paint-your-brembos.html
and
https://my350z.com/forum/brakes-and-suspension/238774-pics-of-painted-brembo-calipers-red.html

A discussion on if it is Rice
https://my350z.com/forum/showthread....ainting+brakes

and stock brembos are painted, not powder coated.

In those threads you will find most people either used G2 (available at tirerack among other places for around $60 or something) and Plasticoat (available at pepboys for around $15), both come with cleaner, tape, brush and can of paint.

Chris

 

when people do this, do you take off the caliper? i am comfortable working on an engine, but have never worked on brakes....is this easy to do? yes, i will search for a how to section. i am the right way or no way person, so if it will look half a$$ if i don't take the caliper off, then i will just take them off to paint them.