Caliper Paint: Yay or Nay
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Caliper Paint: Yay or Nay
So next week I'll be doing a brake job on the Focus. Whenever I do a brake job on a car for the first time, I usually take the time to give the caliper a nice coat of black engine enamel. Looks much cleaner than the raw metal stained w/brake dust.
So now I have the SVT. I'm thinking of perhaps following along the lines of what SVT did for the Cobra and painting a portion of the caliper red (caliper red w/the mounting brackets black). I know I know...if Ford wanted it red, they would have done so in the first place. Part of me thinks it would look pretty neat to have a red caliper compliment the red car. The other part of me kicks my own ass for having what may be considered "ricer tendencies". What are your thoughts?
So now I have the SVT. I'm thinking of perhaps following along the lines of what SVT did for the Cobra and painting a portion of the caliper red (caliper red w/the mounting brackets black). I know I know...if Ford wanted it red, they would have done so in the first place. Part of me thinks it would look pretty neat to have a red caliper compliment the red car. The other part of me kicks my own ass for having what may be considered "ricer tendencies". What are your thoughts?
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Originally Posted by rubberneck
black, or nothing, dont be a ricer.
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I just painted my PBR calipers black with the Caliper and drum paint from Advance, then put a nice coat of clear on it, and they look great.
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Red = good
Yellow = Ricer
Yellow = Ricer
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Originally Posted by Fordified
My calipers are red on the silver car and I think it looks good and doesn't look like rice. If you want them red, paint them red. I did red engine paint and its held up great.
Pretty much made up my mind prior to the thread that I'm going to go with red. I actually created this thread to see what kind of reaction I'd get. I've met quite a few people who talked trash about red calipers on Imports, yet have no problem with red calipers on a Mustang. Always found that interesting.
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