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Old 02-24-2011, 04:00 PM
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Default Pewter WS6 - What color to paint brake calipers?
The car is pewter in color, with a lot of black accents (blackbird stripes, front bird is black, ceta mod, etc.) I was thinking of painting them the same color as the car, but also thought about doing silver. Need some opinions on what would look best, and if you have a pewter TA or camaro with painted brake calipers, post up some pics.
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here are some pics of my pewter car.
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Like above i vote red, really never fails on calipers and gives that aggressive look. But if you don't like red, Black would be my second choice for sure. Don't forget you can always repaint them if you wanted to try something different!
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Polished.


WOW that is sick looking
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Originally Posted by SS98#633
WOW that is sick looking
Yeah but not as sick as the chrome ones in this thread. (check out post 19)

https://ls1tech.com/forums/appearanc...per-paint.html
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Polished gets my vote too, here are my calipers.




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Ww polished looks good, I was gonna say black, but I think I like the polished better, that's my vote!
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Black or polished. I'm going with polished, myself.
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Black.
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Silver, red looks like poo with pewter
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where do you get polished calipers?
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How hard is the upkeep with the polished? Would that be possible with a DD?
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If you go polished goodluck keeping them looking nice if it's a DD.
I vote red...or black.
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I have a pewter car and black fits very nicely on it.
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i did my brackets black and the calipers red
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If you go polished goodluck keeping them looking nice if it's a DD.
I vote red...or black.
That's what I figured..ugh
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I have black ones on my pewter camaro
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Originally Posted by will8908
where do you get polished calipers?
U have polished calipers bro you just have to bring it out.
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Black with pewter decals..
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