View Poll Results: What color Brembo lettering should I put on my newly painted Red calipers?
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Brembo lettering
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Brembo lettering
Okay so after painting all 4 of my calipers, I needed to re-letter my brembos. I ordered decals that are the same size as the original painted on emblems. The decals just came in today and they look great.....heres my question:
I ordered 2 black and 2 white, but I can't decide which ones to use. My calipers are red. I had originally planned on doing white like the calipers came stock, but then I was thinking black would look good, but now Im leaning towards white again haha.
What do you guys think??
Im planning on putting them on either tomorrow or thursday depending on the weather. Once theyre on Im going to put a couple clear coats to seal them in, and Ill be done. Theres a total of about 4-5 coats of red, I did thin coats so it built up nicely.
Input is appreciate....thanks
I ordered 2 black and 2 white, but I can't decide which ones to use. My calipers are red. I had originally planned on doing white like the calipers came stock, but then I was thinking black would look good, but now Im leaning towards white again haha.
What do you guys think??
Im planning on putting them on either tomorrow or thursday depending on the weather. Once theyre on Im going to put a couple clear coats to seal them in, and Ill be done. Theres a total of about 4-5 coats of red, I did thin coats so it built up nicely.
Input is appreciate....thanks
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black would be more unique.
white would be normal...
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where did you order? and what kinda paint u use?
white would be normal...
where did you order? and what kinda paint u use?
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I just used plasti-kote caliper paint from my local parts store, it withstands up to 900 degrees. I ordered the decals on Ebay. Heres the guys email that I got them from cs@pixalette.com. Id highly recommend him. Most sellers were asking like $8 plus shipping for a pair, his were $7.98 with free shipping for 5! So I ordered 3 white and 2 black....and they ended up throwing in an extra one to make it 3 and 3 for free. Definitely superior to all the other sellers on there.
Im going to get some high temp engine clear coat now to clear the calipers with.
UPDATE
So i finished, I went with white, and theyre on and clear coated. There were a couple of small mishaps....
Some of the paint on the edge of the passenger side caliper wrinkled pretty bad when I cleared it. So I tryed smoothing it and putting on extra clear coats on that side. It helped a little, but now the brembo emblem has a very subtle off-white look (a little yellowish) but not too noticable. O well....it looks good enough
Im going to get some high temp engine clear coat now to clear the calipers with.
UPDATE
So i finished, I went with white, and theyre on and clear coated. There were a couple of small mishaps....
Some of the paint on the edge of the passenger side caliper wrinkled pretty bad when I cleared it. So I tryed smoothing it and putting on extra clear coats on that side. It helped a little, but now the brembo emblem has a very subtle off-white look (a little yellowish) but not too noticable. O well....it looks good enough
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Wow haha, I didnt realize I never got back here to post pictures. I dont really have any good pictures directly of the calipers, but heres a couple for now that give you an idea. Ill try to get some close ups at a later date.
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