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Old Jul 30, 2006 | 03:15 PM
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need advice for caliper paint

What color should i paint my calipers?
I wanna stick to 3 colors:: Red, Black or Silver?

Old Jul 30, 2006 | 11:04 PM
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Re: need advice for caliper paint

dude, i LOVE your car, mines that color but has the 3.8 and those are the rims i want, is that lowered a little in the front or is it just the pic?, i say go with red or silver.. black wont stand out as much
Old Jul 31, 2006 | 04:50 AM
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I blended Duplicolor blue caliper paint with their silver caliper paint. It came out an awesome pearlescent blue color.

When I saw the color of your car, I knew it would work for you.


This picture doesn't do the color any justice. If you're interested in seeing more, I'll take another picture.





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Old Jul 31, 2006 | 09:17 AM
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Awesome color i'll take your advice on that and your calipers look totally amazing.

I really appreciate your kind words chevy 16. They are C6 Motorsports rims 18 fronts and 19 rears. My car is NOT lowered someone chopped it for me.
Old Jul 31, 2006 | 09:26 AM
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Why thank you kind sir.


I just went outside and snapped 2 more pics really quick.








Old Jul 31, 2006 | 12:27 PM
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Perfect color. So you mixed to colors together or did silver first and then did blue? When you did the first coat, did you let it sit for 30 mins and then did the second one?
Old Aug 1, 2006 | 05:04 PM
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Perfect color. So you mixed to colors together or did silver first and then did blue? When you did the first coat, did you let it sit for 30 mins and then did the second one?
Yeah I actually did it by accident. I was intending to paint it with the blue, and then use silver for a CAMARO script on the side of the caliper.

I started with the blue, and the color blue that they sell is horrible. It's so rice boy I wanted to vomit. So then it was a change of plan, and I decided to forget the CAMARO script and just paint it over with silver.

I had allowed the blue to dry for an entire 24 hours, yet when I started painting over it with the silver, the paint started smearing and running together on the caliper... Which I wasn't expecting given the 24 hours I had allowed the blue to dry. I ran with it though, and kept going until the colors blended into this awesome color. The weird thing was that it came out the exact type color I had always wanted, but is never offered in caliper paint.

That time it happened by accident... Next time I'm going to try mixing them together right from the start in a can; which will be soon - I'm getting ready to upgrade to a performance brake setup.
Old Aug 5, 2006 | 12:37 PM
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I'd lower the car and then upgrade the brakes. Usually I wouldn't draw attention to calipers and stock brake hardware with those big wheels.
But either way, I think that color Nate has is sick. Definately do something like that.
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