Reply With Quoteunless you're fitting bigger brakes and calipers i don't think it looks that great painting the stock ones. if u really wanna paint them then i'd go for black just to tidy them up.
BCP400 Red
BCP401 Yellow
BCP402 Black Satin
BCP403 Silver
BCP404 Blue
3 Grand Master
::.. Painting Stock Calipers - What color?
Of course, won't really show through the baskets... but suppose they were these wheels:
Car is Alpine white. What color would you use?
SEE SAMPLE: http://www.duplicolor.com/products/caliper.html
1. BCP400 Red
2. BCP401 Yellow
3. BCP402 Black Satin
4. BCP403 Silver
5. BCP404 Blue
Big, Big Time Poster
unless you're fitting bigger brakes and calipers i don't think it looks that great painting the stock ones. if u really wanna paint them then i'd go for black just to tidy them up.
Last edited by Rory535i; 07-10-2005 at 02:05 AM.
2 Grand Master
i'd say make them stand out as much as possible so go with yellow. Black, you won't really see the calipers, red is what everyone else goes with, blue is unique. hmm i haven't seen blue calipers before. yellow, yellow, yellow. If you don't want them to stand out though. I'd say leave them unpainted.
Major Contributor
I like the SILVER. RED or YELLOW looks like "Fast and the Furious"... With BLACK, you can't really see the calipers... And BLUE just does't look right unless you have a BLUE car (my opinion)... SILVER looks classy!
MY CAR WITH SILVER CALIPER PAINT (I used G2 brand). Friends tell me that my silver painted calipers look GOOD while the wheels are spinning since the spokes becomes transparent while spinning.
Originally Posted by Qube
Of course, won't really show through the baskets... but suppose they were these wheels:
Car is Alpine white. What color would you use?
SEE SAMPLE: http://www.duplicolor.com/products/caliper.html
1. BCP400 Red
2. BCP401 Yellow
3. BCP402 Black Satin
4. BCP403 Silver
5. BCP404 Blue
Last edited by Rick L; 07-10-2005 at 05:05 PM.
RICK
BMW 1995 525i (Alpine White)
3 Grand Master
Looks like Black is the leading champ.
I am thinking Blue now... Would make sense too... it would match the roundel cap!
Last edited by Qube; 07-10-2005 at 10:46 PM.
Major Contributor
Make sure you post some pictures once you do it, I would do red if my car was a little less stock. Black/silver is probably going to be unocitable.
Big Time Poster
Silver will actually retain internal heat. Black will radiate that heat better (if you drive hard enough to get brakes hot...)
3 Grand Master
Okay, so picked up Blue today. The rims aren't here yet so I think I'll hold off so I don't have to take off the wheels twice.
2 Grand Master
I will wanta see some pic's as I voted for blue
Major Contributor
How about Polycoating the Calipers?
http://www.goldlinebrakes.com/
This guy not only rebuilds the calipers (something that should be done every 75k or so) He can Polycoat them any color you want.
I had painted my calipers before and was dissapointed with the results after 40k miles - they looked like hell.
When I did all the work on my car last fall I sent them out here - and they are great. the dust does not adhere to them at all and they are really visible through the BBS RSGT wheels.
The guy is great to work with and can do most colors you want. - JT
Last edited by Johntee540; 07-16-2005 at 05:39 PM.
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