what colour should i paint my callipers??

[stevemac 0]

dont need special brake stuff then?

Special epoxy caliper paint is available in various colours but hammerite/smoothrite will be okay :wink:

[Kevin Bacon 5]

Paint em black :lol: And yep, smoothrite is the Daddy. It's an enamel and can therefore take the heat :wink:

[vr6storm 0]

Don't Paint em black :lol: And yep, smoothrite is the Daddy. It's an enamel and can therefore take the heat :wink:

 

 

there thats what you meant isn't it kev :wink:

[Kevin Bacon 5]

LOL.....

 

I don't do brightly coloured calipers. There is method to my madness.....black brake dust + black calipers = fcuk cleaning them :wink:

[vr6storm 0]

LOL.....

 

I don't do brightly coloured calipers. There is method to my madness.....black brake dust + black calipers = fcuk cleaning them :wink:

 

 

that was exactly my thinking when i did mine.............i was going to go for the "factory" silver finish but then thought about how dirty the alloys get after a day or two and so thought better of it :wink:

[stevemac 0]

LOL.....

 

I don't do brightly coloured calipers. There is method to my madness.....black brake dust + black calipers = fcuk cleaning them :wink:

 

 

that was exactly my thinking when i did mine.............i was going to go for the "factory" silver finish but then thought about how dirty the alloys get after a day or two and so thought better of it :wink:

Exactly the reason that I bought a black car :lol:

[skid 1]

Joe......youi would be better off with black as i have seen your mental driving and no colour would last :shock: :lol: :lol:

[Joe M 0]

Who, me? :shock: :wink:

I got lucky when I got my 288 calipers, they had already been enameled a purple colour not too far from the shade of my car. Thinking of changing them to silver to match the rear mk4 calipers.

[Gaz154 0]

i,ve got same colour car as you mate and i painted mine yellow hammerite smooth and they set the car off a treat

just about to replace the rears and do the same to them

[dinkus 10]

My front calipers are a lovely shade of matt black with a smattering of brown. Does the job nicely for me. It gives them that '80k mile' look 8)

[jedi-knight83 0]

im thinking i'll just go for a dark colour now....maybe a dark green like someone suggested.....or black so i look like vr6storm :lol:

 

just need to get that other bloody calliper out of corradostorms car now :mad:

[dinkus 10]

just need to get that other bloody calliper out of corradostorms car now :mad:

 

And them brake pads off my kitchen table...

[Bally 0]

done myn gold for now..

[jedi-knight83 0]

And them brake pads off my kitchen table...

 

ah yes :oops:

[biggrim 0]

Do e'm black

[gibber 0]

I used to have them gold, but thought it was a bit too bling, so now they are red to give that sneeky porsche look :lol:

[dazzyvr6 0]

my new rear ones are gold and my fronts are red

[David Winter 0]

I have a picture of a new Vr6 somewhere. I shall look for it and the brand new calipers on this example are silvery gold. So Im going to get silver smoothrite and add a smal lamount of gold when I re do mine. Ill try and find the picture.

[ross.taylor 0]

My calipers are pretty nasty and rusty. Should I somehow get the rust off before painting? If so, any suggestions as to how I should go about it??

 

Also the standard 16V disks look pretty weedy in my 17s, whats the cheapest/easiest way to make them bigger? Is it possible to just get bigger carriers? if so where?

[jedi-knight83 0]

ross.taylor,

 

 

you could buy my vr6 callipers, carriers and hoses...then all you would need are the g60 discs and pads...that would give you the 280mm brake set up :)

[ross.taylor 0]

Sounds interesting....

 

What massive sum of cash would you want for them?

[theRuler 0]

paint them black!

[Storm 0]

I was staring in throught the window at the Porsche Centre in cardiff on Sunday. They had a GT3 in Midnight Blue with yellow calipers (Ceramic brakes). I think my blue storm may get this treatment. :)

 

EDIT the yellow paint not the porsche brakes ha..ha...