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Old 11-19-2006, 11:18 AM
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Got home from school early friday and decided Id go ahead and do my brakes, and to kill 2 birds with one stone, Id just go ahead and paint the calipers. Let me know what you think.







Old 11-19-2006, 11:45 AM
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Looks great, would you consider changing your lugnuts and lugnut covers with chrome lugnuts? I just did that with my car and it looks better.
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yea, Im planning on getting c6 rims in the near future so when those go on everything will be chrome. Thanks by the way
Old 11-19-2006, 01:07 PM
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can't say that i like it, especially behind the stock 16"ers. maybe if she had a ws6 hood with blue stripes down it.
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Looks good but I would of painted them red.
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Originally Posted by Silver02TA
can't say that i like it, especially behind the stock 16"ers. maybe if she had a ws6 hood with blue stripes down it.
Picking the hood up next month and getting the blue stripes. The pics dont really justify that well, looking at them in person, they are darker.
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Nice. I probably would have gone with a different color, but if you put on blue overlays and blue stripes on your hood it will tie in with the theme really well. You should consider buying clear corners too.
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Originally Posted by MonSSter
Looks good but I would of painted them red.
i think red accents are way too overdone... the blue ones will look much more in place with the hood
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you need to back the camera out and take a shot of the entire car to get a good impression on how they look
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It was raining out and I have a big overhang over my garage so I pulled it out as far as I could. Ill try and get some better shots tomorrow or Tuesday.
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Looks nice....I'll be painting mine black sometime in the near future. I've got the stuff...just need to get the time.

So what part of Indy are you from?
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look fine to me. how long does it take for that paint to dry?
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Originally Posted by y2k_ta
Looks nice....I'll be painting mine black sometime in the near future. I've got the stuff...just need to get the time.

So what part of Indy are you from?
I live in Southport, just north of Greenwood.


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look fine to me. how long does it take for that paint to dry?
Didnt really take long to dry but I also had a fan set up blowing on the ones I had painted while I worked on other ones. That made it go alot quicker. By the time I was finished with the last one I started putting the brakes and wheeis back on and by the time I got around to the last one it was dry. Sorry I cant give you an estimate air dry time, just use a small fan or something and it will help speed up the process.
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i did mine red about a month ago when i did my valve covers. i used a hair dryer to dry them between coats. i did the same with my berger. i used the drill and a cleaning/polishing brush on them to get them back to the stock silver. and hit them with brakeleen. heres my calipers through the salad shooters. the color is ford red. i know i should shoot myself for using a ford color, but they look nice. i only did the front ones, and until i get SS rims and drilled/slotted rotors ill let the rear ones stay the same.

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look good!



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