I painted my calipers today and got new Goodyear Eagles put on the other day here are some pics. The tires are one size larger (235/40/ZR18) They look and handle a lot better

 

not a big fan of painted calipers but yours look good. tires look good too. cute puppy you got there.

 

pup is a great dane he is 6 weeks old, he helped do some of the painting

 

haha, nice dog training.

 

Did you paint the calipur still on the rotor or take them off?

 

Are you having any problems with the size of the tire like rubbing or anything?

 

looks pretty sweet

 

Looks like you missed some of the caliper??? I would have painted the hole thing.

 

The paint is a brush on form, so no need to remove the actual caliper...so yes i painted in on the car. As for the silver bracket i removed and used spray paint (bumper chrome, it doesnt come out mirror finish like chrome but just a nice looking silver) As for the trie size i hvae no problem with them scrubbing/rubbing. Not only do the wider tires look nicer both width and height, it seems to fit the rim better than the stockers. I didnt miss any of the caliper, it is all painted, it may be the pic that makes it look unpainted, but then i dont know what exactly you are talking about. Total time was about 6-7 hrs, i took a dremel and smoothed the rough edges off the surfance that would be seen, when i was done with this the metal was very smooth and could have been polished and looked like chrome. i put 5 coats of paint on (as per instructions) cleaned the fender wells and the backside of the wheels. This was just for the front two.

 

price on tires and from where

 

I love the silver portion of the calipers, looks good. And those tires are great, I have 315/35zr17's on my corvette, they have a nice sidewall and tread pattern. I bet they wear quicker than Pirelli's ??

 

My bro has those on his Jetta and hes going to get many more miles than my pirellis will ever see. They are really nice tires and get great traction in most cases.

 

looks good i am going with that same tire size but i am going with the BFG KDW2's

 

Please post in the appropriate section. This is in no way related to the performance of the 2.0L

 

A little over $800 installed with full warranty at B&L tire in Newnan GA

 

does that size throw off your speedo, or anything, i heard going up in tire size can do that, read it on the redline forums...

 

i drove by one of those radrs set up on side on the road and my speedo was dead on.

 

Use a tire calculator like this one.

That's how I found the right size for my snow tires. As long as the overall diameter stays almost the same, the speedo and odo will both be fine. Larger diameter = slower speedo, smaller diameter = faster speedo.

According to that site, he only changed the overall diameter by 0.2", that's not very much. To quote the calculation from there the speedo is 0.8% fast (60mph on the speedo is 59.5mph in reality).

 

HAHAHAHA I drove by one of those once going 93mph....it said I was going 69mph...

 

once you get over 100mph they start over, so go by doing 101 and it will read "01"

 

"But officer I SAW the sign, I was only going 1 mile per hour, what do you mean I was going over 100?????"

 

Looks hot man!