Painting Brake Calipers

[SiR_RB]

ive got a silver r33 gtst with bronze volk racing SE37 rims. i want to paint my calipers but im not sure what colour would suit the car/wheel combo.

originally i was thinking of the common red caliper with white nissan writing but dunno how the red would look with a silver car and those rims...

some have said to paint the caliper gold (to match the rims) with red writing?

any ideas guys? what colour etc does everyone else have?

thanks

[HKS_R34]

I would personally leave them black. However most popular would be red!

[(OO)SKYLINE(OO)]

Red Look the best!

You said bronze volk racing SE37 rims... Did you mean TE37 rims? Still Red looks sweet. Yellow looks S**T which I have seen.

[Lil_Bobby_260]

Id go black, too. Too many colours that contrast looks a bit gumby. Another thing to look at is - are you doing anything with your interior? is there a colour theme going on in there? Match your brakes up to that even. Always better to have something that flows.

Have a look for heat proof decals and such that you can put on them is Brembo/nismo so on.

[cruzin33]

I was going to go gold on my blue r33 but it does look gumby if you have stock calipers and a silver line i would respray them black

[stolen_s15]

I'm gonna go black. With the nissan logo painted either white or silver.

[cruzin33]

Its to hard to paint the nissan logo i stuffed myn trying

[Lil_Bobby_260]

There is a DIY thread on doing it. Quite easy. Use a stencil. Or do you mean the nissan logo that is moulded into the caliper?

Paint the brakes the colour you want the NISSAN lettering. Then pain them the colour you want the calipers. Then lighly sand off the top coat from the lettering. Done! Hit it with some heat proof clear and you are finished.

[WazR32GTSt]

a couple of points i would add:

- calipers don't need high temp paint - they work fine with any paint, but feel free to use high temp if you feel the need but it limits your colour range

- the best ways to get the nissan lettering white is to either get a white paint pen and do it carefully, or just sand the pain back to the bare metal, although sanding is harder as the nissan has slight grooves in it

- make sure you also paint the stock hub as that thing is rusty and disgusting! give it a rub with a metal brush then with steel wool, then finally clean it up with metho. then paint them either silver or black

- calipers work well with eitehr gold, red, or silver as these are collom colours you might find brembo's or stock calipers in

- when painting, don't worry if paint gets on the rotor, as any paint on the friction surface of the rotor (ie where the pad will touch) will be gone the first time you drive the car. if you feel you must get it off, use some turps on a rag

personally, i painted the calipers on my dark blue R32 in red, and i think it suited the car perfectly.

on my V35, i have left the calipers stock as they are silver and i like it that way. i recently painted the hubs in an aluminium colour to match, and the whole combo looks fantastic!

[cruzin33]

Any pics of the v35 calipers

[SiR_RB]

yes on the lip they say Volk Racing SE37....thanks for the info guys, think im gonna go black with white nissan writing

you guys are right, gold wouldnt look too flash, might look abit 'cheap' lol

thanks

[SiR_RB]

oh yeh by the way it has a carbon bonnet, and im gonna get dark tints soon, so black calipers would be perfect

[NA_Goodness]

Carbon Fibre bonnet? Maybe carbon fibre calipers? Not sure how you can do this, but it'll look cool! Otherwise yeah, go black.

[SiR_RB]

carbon fibre rims perhaps?

hehe

[NA_Goodness]

carbon fibre rims perhaps?

This is actually a reality. Someone at SEMA had carbon fibre rims. They looked really cool! You could get them airbrushed tho.

[moobaque]

On my silver 33 i've gone with black calipers and sanded back the nissan letters to the expose the metal again.

i think this looks the best on a silver car.

[Lil_Bobby_260]

black with white lettering/silver lettering i think. Or even bronze lettering to suit the wheels.

<--- i can vouch for black with white lettering on teh brembos itsa niiiice

[8110]

This is how I did mine.

[NA_Goodness]

That is hot! Nice rotors, what are they?

[Lil_Bobby_260]

I wouldve tried to match the caliper to the hub... but thats just me. Dig the 2 pce rotors though.