Hoping to paint my calipers and replace my brake pads this weekend, I have a brilliant black car and was wondering for some color reccomendations.

I love trying to keep most everything "black" on my car but I have the feeling if i did the calipers in black, nobody would notice them. The most common color im seeing is red for the calipers.


I'm torn between going with red and trying yellow calipers on my black car? What would you think?

 

Go red

 

Black on my BB. They don't stand out, but that was the intention. They are noticable when in motion - but you'll never see that perspective. But you can make them stand out more w/colored rx8 stickers on the black paint. If you want them to stand out, go red. Don't know about yellow, but I don't much care for yellow anyway. I imagine it will stand out more since there are not many w/yellow calipers.

 

I don't see any reason why you want to make that ugly brake calipers anymore noticable then it already is. Just paint it black.

 

Ford Red. You'll have a larger variety of colors to choose from if you get engine paint rather than caliper paint, it's pretty much the same thing. Make sure it can withstand the heat though.

 

If you want them noticed go with something bright, if you want to be sutble, go with the black or silver...I went with testors model paint, you get a really good variety of colors...

 

My 8 is TiGray and I painted my calipers black because I didn't want them to standout too much. But I also used the RX8 Stencils from Polak. I think it looks great and it added some flair without standing out. Here is the link to the stencils

http://www.polakgraphics.com/index2....rstencils.html

 

Ferrari's are yellow and they look good, so I was leaning to yellow. I don't think I will paint that outer bracket yellow too. Just the caliper it's self. Maybe paint the bracket gray, so it doesn't stand out.

 

i went red... and i like it. decide if you want them noticed or not. then choose.

 

thanks for the pictures! the yellow seems a bit "too loud" for me, so I'm thinking red would be good for me right now.

 

Ford red damnit!

 

Check out some pics of the red - imo - it is equally 'loud', maybe louder. Unfortuneately I don't have pics to show you the black. Check the gallery section.

 

I think red matches better with black than yellow.

 

You know how I'm partial to pink!!! ......and it's close to red.

 

I'm partial to the pink, too.

 

lol, yup, you got me there...pink all the way...

 

rawr ... red

 

Black for class
Silver for dress
Red to hide rust
Yellow to for fun
Green to be seen

 

^ Crap. Now I have to paint mine a different color.

 

Heh - well i feel better now, i Was in autozone an hour ago picking up some high temp spray paint to fix a few dings on my 2 oil coolers (and to paint my Racing beat protector screens black to match my ride) and was deciding wether to pick up a can of red too for the calipers, decided against it, if I choose to paint the calipers they are going to be black as to match everything else on my car


thanks all!

 

Go red...looks nice on a BB

 

btw, I think the spray is harder to control than the paint on stuff. you have to be really careful about overspray, so just make sure you mask everything off really well. spray paint has a tendency to find those little nooks and crannies.

 

I would do hot pink

 

My BB Shinka came with Polished Silver Calipers...
I'd go with Sunlight Silver to match everything else down there...

 

Can't you just bring it to the dealer and have them paint them for you? I saw some posts where you just bring it to the dealer, and they paint it under warranty?!