I want to paint my calipers but dont no which color to do. I have a black SS and am torn between red and black, but i dont know. if anybody has any input or pics of what theres look like on their black car, that would be appreciated.

 

I would say go with the red if you want them to stand out, but if you're trying to keep the car dark go with the all black theme (which looks sweet)

 

i usually say match the body color. but yeah if you want to stand out, go with red. its all a personal choice.

 

I really need to take better pics.....

 

you know what really sucks.. having nice wheels and tires, and painted cals. and that nice big rusty disc brake sitting there.. i have that and it drives me nuts.. as soon as i need new brakes, i am goin to a big break set up... no rust damn it!!!!!!

but on topic i'd go red.. hard to keep clean but it just stands out....

 

How did you do the bow tie?

 

I had some vinyl made at a local shop and I put those on once the two coats of duplicolor dried and then I applied a coat or two of high temp clear coat......over 10k miles later and still look like the day I did it.

I re-did the front ones recently but haven't gotten around to taking pictures

 

dam i dont know what to do. does anybody have pics of black calipers

 

Go Red

 

Yeah, paint them red. I don't remember ever seeing black ones... Red would look sweet.

 

RED!

 

Even though I did mine red, black looks pretty sweet too. Look up some Acura TL's online. Some of them come w/ gloss black calipers stock and looks pretty nice IMO.

 

red ftw!

 

red, gosh...idiot.

 

Go crazy and paint them yellow or bright green...or both yellow and green.

 

everyone does red. its overdone IMO.

do something unique

also keep in mind...the color you chose for your calipers, you are chosing for your entire car.

if you do red calipers....every other accent will need to be red or it wont look right.

 

Red is alright but I think when it comes to it, Im going to paint mine a dark gray if they have the color. I think it would look pretty clean.

 

i finished it. and the winner was......Black. They look good. i plan to go with the all black theme on my car.so how can i put a bowtie on them without them disinegrating. ill post picss tomm since you prolly havent seen any black on a balt. from a distance they are hard to notice, but i thoght red is always the color used and it stands out too much for me

 

Post pics of your black ones, please.

 

i will. give me till the end of the day.

 

I'm coloring mine.........stock! Whoop! Sorry, i've never been a fan of self painting calipers. I'll leave the colored calipers to the guys who buy the pre-painted calipers that come in big brake kits.

But I guess if I had to pick, i'd say black. Red just looks out of place and is overdone.

 

the only reason i did mine was because they were getting grimey so i had to clean them eventually and decied to just paint them as well

 

The days over where are the pics j/k man I do want to see them though because I have black rims on the way and I too couldn't decide on black or red but i think it will be black

 

Heres what they look like

 

^^^^Thanks they look great. I think I am going to paint mine black as well. Do you have any pics from a little farther away that show it with more of the car?