Lets see what you did with your calipers
Lets see what you did with your calipers
I'm about to paint mine, I just want to see what you guys did. I've got some nice touches planned.
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Re: Lets see what you did with your calipers
Those are black reflective Camaro letters from Brent. I didnt do a good enough job of getting enough paint over the top of them, and now they are peeling off a lil. Its alright though, im getting some new calipers this summer and painting them black with silver Camaro in there.
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Re: Lets see what you did with your calipers
That looks really good. 
Get this... I just ACCIDENTALLY did something awesome with mine today (IMO).
First I bought blue, since the accents I'm using on my car are blue and silver. I had bought white caliper vinyl decals from Brent 6 months ago, so I was going to use them. I bought the Duplicolor brush on kit.
Then I had second thoughts because the blue was a little too dark. I would have liked a lot lighter color blue. So then decided I wanted to paint the calipers just plain silver instead. So the next day, I went and bought that Duplicolor kit and went back out this morning to paint em over. But I had a bright idea and thought it would look cool if I put on the vinyl, painted the caliper in silver and yanked the vinyl off.
I'd have silver calipers and blue CAMARO script. Word.
So I rigged up some thread underneath the vinyl (to aid in pulling it off) and slapped em on. (Please pay no attention to the surface rust on the rotors - it rained the other day). And yes, I was sloppy and got the pads with paint a little bit.
So I threw on a coat... And the damn blue paint started bleeding into the silver.
WTF... I had painted them 24 hours prior and they were totally dry to the touch yesterday. So I decided to pull the vinyl off, and the whole thing turned into a train wreck. Gooey paint everywhere and some screwed up lettering. 
Get this... I just ACCIDENTALLY did something awesome with mine today (IMO).
First I bought blue, since the accents I'm using on my car are blue and silver. I had bought white caliper vinyl decals from Brent 6 months ago, so I was going to use them. I bought the Duplicolor brush on kit.
Then I had second thoughts because the blue was a little too dark. I would have liked a lot lighter color blue. So then decided I wanted to paint the calipers just plain silver instead. So the next day, I went and bought that Duplicolor kit and went back out this morning to paint em over. But I had a bright idea and thought it would look cool if I put on the vinyl, painted the caliper in silver and yanked the vinyl off.
I'd have silver calipers and blue CAMARO script. Word.So I rigged up some thread underneath the vinyl (to aid in pulling it off) and slapped em on. (Please pay no attention to the surface rust on the rotors - it rained the other day). And yes, I was sloppy and got the pads with paint a little bit.
So I threw on a coat... And the damn blue paint started bleeding into the silver.
WTF... I had painted them 24 hours prior and they were totally dry to the touch yesterday. So I decided to pull the vinyl off, and the whole thing turned into a train wreck. Gooey paint everywhere and some screwed up lettering.
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