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Old Nov 7, 2004 | 04:33 PM
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What color calipers?

Well i'm going to do my calipers soon and i can't decide what color i should do.

My car is black. I am going to ditch the red emblems and go with silver as i am getting an SS hood and painted the scoop gun metal. I thought about red but didn't know if i should stick to the color scheme or not.

1. Red caslipers with either silver or black letters.

2. Silver calipers with black letters

3. Black Calipers with Silver camaro letters.

If i do go silver what kind of color do you guess suggest? I light or dark silver?
Old Nov 7, 2004 | 04:34 PM
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You'll get more hp from painting the rotors.
Old Nov 7, 2004 | 04:37 PM
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Red will look a lot better, and draw more attention to them. I would go with red. Works great if you have some nice wheels. Of course then, with people paying attention to the calipers, you're going to want to slap some cross-drilled rotors on to make everything nice and presentable.

As for the decals (I'm assuming you're going with Brent's vinyl decals) I think silver would look good... But black would go better with the theme.
Old Nov 7, 2004 | 05:31 PM
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Re: What color calipers?

ive been pondering this for a while now too, since i eventually plan on getting gunmetal 35th stripes
Old Nov 7, 2004 | 06:18 PM
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since i like the black silver look the only solution is black with silver decals...

and post up pics once you get that scoop painted
Old Nov 7, 2004 | 06:27 PM
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Re: What color calipers?

Originally Posted by blackbirdta
since i like the black silver look the only solution is black with silver decals...

and post up pics once you get that scoop painted
Yea thats the 1st thing i will probably do after getting the hood on . I know a few people on here want to see what it looks like.

Originally Posted by Good Ph.D
You'll get more hp from painting the rotors
Well duh thats also why i removed my bumper and fender.
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Old Nov 8, 2004 | 02:05 PM
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black with silver letters- althought thats what im doing..... around soon as i get home and have to swap to the winter rims
Old Nov 8, 2004 | 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by kingman109
black with silver letters- althought thats what im doing..... around soon as i get home and have to swap to the winter rims
Our cars are gonna end up looking just alike i swear.

When are you gonna paint em black?
Old Nov 8, 2004 | 03:41 PM
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Here ya go, see what you think of the looks of these blue one's at the bottom of this page.

http://www.cardomain.com/member_page...9&cat=25&val=1
Old Nov 8, 2004 | 04:08 PM
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christmas- my mom is buying brents decals for them- for the rear letters and badge overlays all i silver for part of my christmas present
Old Nov 8, 2004 | 05:10 PM
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Re: What color calipers?

I voted for red. My car is black and has light silver reflective overlays and CAMARO letters. They look almost white which is why i'm going with a black and white interior combo. I also have red calipers on my black car, with pretty much white emblems and i think it looks damn good.
Old Nov 9, 2004 | 03:09 PM
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Re: What color calipers?

Originally Posted by 97BBlackZ
Well i'm going to do my calipers soon and i can't decide what color i should do.

My car is black. I am going to ditch the red emblems and go with silver as i am getting an SS hood and painted the scoop gun metal. I thought about red but didn't know if i should stick to the color scheme or not.

1. Red caslipers with either silver or black letters.

2. Silver calipers with black letters

3. Black Calipers with Silver camaro letters.

If i do go silver what kind of color do you guess suggest? I light or dark silver?
I would go silver with black lettering. I think it would set the car off just right...

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Old Nov 9, 2004 | 07:33 PM
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Re: What color calipers?

Hmm... if you are ditching the red emblem scheme, I wouldn't do red. Probably black with silver lettering. (maybe even reflective silver letters )
Old Nov 10, 2004 | 12:37 AM
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Originally Posted by RedHottG2
Here ya go, see what you think of the looks of these blue one's at the bottom of this page.

http://www.cardomain.com/member_page...9&cat=25&val=1

My GOD!! Your car is f%^king awesome. I just creamed my pants, thanks, thanks alot
Old Nov 10, 2004 | 07:32 AM
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Re: What color calipers?

Originally Posted by Megalis
My GOD!! Your car is f%^king awesome. I just creamed my pants, thanks, thanks alot
I must agree, that has to be one of the nastiest & cleanest looking LS1's I've seen. Very well done.



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