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[AussieTemplar]

Hey all,

Thinking of improving my rice factor and painting my brake callipers. I've done it before but just wondering about colour. I have a silver 99' RX with gold rims, do you think red would suite? What colour do you think would be nicer. Cheers.
I will enjoy the extra 5kW I get from red callipers.





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[Adam]

Id say black, Any other colour just makes stock callipers stand out as stock, and ugly, i dont think they are a very nice looking design.

[XXB4XX]

You need a business shirt to make it look awesome..

Make the calipers Red so it brakes faster too!! (seriously red looks awesome)

[Soop]

Business shirts... that's like 3yrs old now dude!

[RX25SE]

Blek

[XXB4XX]

Was good then and good now.. This thread will have 30 less replies cause I beat everyone to it!!!

[Soop]

Unfortunately there's one like 3 people who remember WTF you're on about LOL. Back in the old grey page days.

[Nicko_]

Paint them pink then take some pics post them up and see how any laughs you get

[Morgan]

Black is probably the way to go but with your silver car, I think silver could be a good option too.
The calipers come silver from the factory and it looks clean when redone

[twinturbosubaru]

MMM, keep away from red with std callipers IMHO, black is the go !
Don't forget to use proper calliper paint, but if you have done it before you would know that

Regards
PAul

[Shiv]

Hey all,

Thinking of improving my rice factor and painting my brake callipers. I've done it before but just wondering about colour. I have a silver 99' RX with gold rims, do you think red would suite?

Painting them can be very difficult. I would recommend going to MRT and get them to do it. Your in Syd, yes? They're located in Rhodes and they're prices are unbelievable!

But why paint them when you can buy them ready done:
http://cgi.ebay.com....=item3f065847c3

One of our members has them on his sled and if you're lucky, he may be kind enough to provide you with installation tips. But again; MRT is the best bet with this sort of stuff, so worth calling them up sometime and asking them.

[Nicko_]

Joke aside

Go for the black

Reds only cool when you got brembos

Hide the rice

[Morgan]

I didnt find painting them very hard. Followed a DIY on one of these forums and it all went smoothly.
You will have to set aside a whole day to do all four though. A lot of prep work is needed to get the best results.

I painted my RX ones gold which went alright with the green of the car





And I started painting my Outback ones white to see how they would look. Turns out the Outback's brake pads omit a staggering amount of dust so it lasted about 24 hrs!

[Shiv]

Haha I was joking Morgs, being an idiot

Jokes aside, black FTW. Keeps it simple and doesn't make stock calipers stand out as being stock.

BTW - which DIY did you use, Morgan? I want to do it to mine before sometime this Summer...

[AussieTemplar]

Painting them can be very difficult. I would recommend going to MRT and get them to do it. Your in Syd, yes? They're located in Rhodes and they're prices are unbelievable!

But why paint them when you can buy them ready done:
http://cgi.ebay.com....=item3f065847c3

One of our members has them on his sled and if you're lucky, he may be kind enough to provide you with installation tips. But again; MRT is the best bet with this sort of stuff, so worth calling them up sometime and asking them.

I've done two cars before, one on my mates VL and the other on another mates VR6. Well, not me personally, but it was between me and my mate.
Those calliper covers looks extremely appealing.. Is it really that simple? Clip on cover?

Joke aside

Go for the black

Reds only cool when you got brembos

Hide the rice

As above, Brembo covers may be the way, the fake way

I didnt find painting them very hard. Followed a DIY on one of these forums and it all went smoothly.
You will have to set aside a whole day to do all four though. A lot of prep work is needed to get the best results.

I painted my RX ones gold which went alright with the green of the car

And I started painting my Outback ones white to see how they would look. Turns out the Outback's brake pads omit a staggering amount of dust so it lasted about 24 hrs!

Yep, we've got that shit auto1 sell that clean the brakes/callipers and all that jaz. Gold looks alright, black may work, don't know about white. Thanks for the tips. (loved your gen2 btw).

Cheers.

[DukeNik'em]

OMFG. I get told I'm a ricer for wanting to buy a Honda, and here most of the forum are talking about what colour to paint their stock calipers. You have all lost your judging rights. I can buy and rice any car I want and no one on here can judge. haha.

But seriously I like Shiv's idea, just buy brembos, they come pre-painted. If I could kick my girl out of bed and make love to gold brembos I would, but it's illegal in this state. Gold is the winning colour I say.

Nick

[Alex]

My callipers were already painted.


hth.

[B4TT]

Your calipers require the sacrifice of small children in their honour though Alex.... well at least that is what I have been doing for you........

All seriousness though OP do them black or perhaps a dark silver (try to match how they look new) other than that leave them how they are IMO.

It may be just me but I do not like the look of the single sided calipers when they are painted in red/blue etc.

Aha first thing I thought of when I read the title of this thread was "business shirts required"

[Delete This Account]

I used to paint mine red.


Then I realised if you paint them black, you don't need to clean them. Which is a tough job with wheels like yours and mine.

[SAV84C]

Unless they are brembos or 4 pots BLACK is the only way to go...