Black Wheels, Yellow Brake Calipers?
 

So I have been debating about this for quite some time. I really want to paint my brake calipers yellow but I have some concerns. I feel like this could turn out either really awesome or really crappy looking. So I need everyone's opinion on the matter. Took some pics of my car as it is and did some real quick MS Paint "shopping" to get a feel for the look I want. What do you guys think?

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...r/CIMG0554.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...r/CIMG0553.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...0554YELLOW.jpg

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...53YELLOW-1.jpg

take a wire wheel to the rusted parts of the rotors and hit it with some hi temp black after

BLACK & YELLOW BLACK & YELLOW. I'd do it. Either that or gold.

If I had a black SS with black wheels I'd do my rotors black, and black out the headlights and tint the tails. But then again I love the murdered out look :D I won't hate on you for doing it or anything, but I think the yellow just sticks out too much, but to each there own. Nice Balt BTW!

If you can paint, it'll look good. If you can't, I'll look like shit

go for a darker yellow, or gold.. that highlighter shit looks horrible :lol:

first of all.. MS paint sucks.. so here
http://i55.tinypic.com/20rmusx.jpg












or this
http://i52.tinypic.com/15yc1af.jpg

I'd go with the blue. Blue on black looks sexy! It reminds me of bein' beat as child, lol

Thanks for the photo editing. Looks a lot better than what I threw together!:lol: I might have to seriously consider the blue.

Probably going to try to get everything cleaned off this weekend and prepped for paint. Definitely gonna do the hubs black as well to make it cleaner looking.

i have gold calipers. here is a thread from last summer after i did my whole car. i got regular can of gold outdoor paint (like 4$ at ace hardware) and painted on like 3 coats with a good paintbrush in all the crevices. its been a year through crazy winters in NJ and WV and the past 4 months in crazy heat in south florida and the paint is still 100% perfect.

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/appe...ashed~-222714/

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/865/img7721t.jpg

gooooold

http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/5172/img4532w.jpg

Pics dont do it justice
I used g2 caliper paint

Did what you suggested there and I think it turned out pretty nice. I still have to paint the calipers but thats a project for another day. Do you think the brake pads will burn off any paint that gets under them? I used high temp. caliper paint and masked off where the pads usually contact the rotors.

Heres a picture
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...r/CIMG0556.jpg

Looks good man, a lot better than the rust, lol. So have you decided blue or yellow on the calipers yet? My vote still says blue :twothumbs

I think I'm gonna end up doin yellow. The way I see it, If I hate how it looks, Ill get some black and cover it. :) That way I can do some lettering stencils and have yellow lettering on black calipers. Maybe make it say SS or Cobalt or something. I'll be sure to post some pics when I do get it finished. Might be a while though.

Interested in this.
I think yellow would look good with the black rims.

I also want to paint my calipers, but don't have any painting experience, lmao.

Just finished painting the fronts. I used the yellow G2 caliper paint kit and mixed about half of each of the ingredients into a beer can I cut the top off of. Saving the other half for if I get around to doing the backs. I'd put up pics, but literally the second I finished putting on the third coat it started raining out of nowhere!

I have umbrellas over the calipers to try keeping the rain off, but I dont know how well its going to work. Im gonna be pissed if it messes up my paint job.

Why will you look like shit?

wait... wat did you do? It looks like a regular rotar w/ caliper... >.<

i did it back in june. I only have one picture and it isn't very close up. I have an ls so i only have calipers on the front.

http://i968.photobucket.com/albums/a...9/586a8e46.jpg

:wtf:.

my friend has his yellow on his trunk and it looks tarted IMO. but whatever floats ur boat

What part of the trunk is yellow? Emblems? Spoiler? Painting yellow on the trunk seems a little too far for me. I was just going to stick to the calipers.

he just did the calipers.... just looked real out of place. IMO yellow is way to bright of a color to be the only thing done on an otherwise blacked out vehicle. but if you like it thats cool

The main thing about yellow is it's going to stand out like a sore thumb on a black car (and not always in a good way), but the great thing about it being your car is you can do whatever you want ;)

ill upload my cars pic after class at 1, i have it done