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Old Mar 12, 2012 | 08:04 AM
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I painted my calipers this weekend. I used the duplicolor kit.










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Old Mar 12, 2012 | 08:17 AM
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They turned out great. I did mine a few years ago. Dupli-color is decent but you will need to do a touch every now and then.
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Old Mar 12, 2012 | 08:28 AM
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Looks good I just did mine and they look the same except for the caliper bracket I painted that machine grey,
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Will be doing mine very soon as well. Those look very good. However, I'm thinking of going away from red since I have a white Corvette (see my avatar). I'm thinking of going to either white (gasp!) or silver. I can't recall ever seeing a car with white calipers. Wonder how that would turn out? On the good side, since they're painted, I could just change it if I didn't like it. I also just got my drilled/slotted rotors so will be doing all at the same time, new rotors, new brakes, paint calipers. Should keep me busy for a little while.
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Old Mar 12, 2012 | 10:37 AM
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Nice job!
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Looks very nice
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Old Mar 12, 2012 | 11:14 AM
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Will be doing mine very soon as well. Those look very good. However, I'm thinking of going away from red since I have a white Corvette (see my avatar). I'm thinking of going to either white (gasp!) or silver. I can't recall ever seeing a car with white calipers. Wonder how that would turn out? On the good side, since they're painted, I could just change it if I didn't like it. I also just got my drilled/slotted rotors so will be doing all at the same time, new rotors, new brakes, paint calipers. Should keep me busy for a little while.
not trying to ***** but came across these the other night



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Ya my vote is paint them white .
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Mine is also white, but I went with the red calipers to break it up a little....
emblems on front and back, emblems on wheel centers, and calipers...little bit of red here and there seemed to make sense...
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Old Mar 12, 2012 | 05:11 PM
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[QUOTE=jjradtech;1580254706]I painted my calipers this weekend. I used the duplicolor kit./QUOTE]

Did you take them off and spray or leave 'em on and brush?

They look good!

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Old Mar 12, 2012 | 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by CactusCat
Will be doing mine very soon as well. Those look very good. However, I'm thinking of going away from red since I have a white Corvette (see my avatar). I'm thinking of going to either white (gasp!) or silver. I can't recall ever seeing a car with white calipers. Wonder how that would turn out? On the good side, since they're painted, I could just change it if I didn't like it. I also just got my drilled/slotted rotors so will be doing all at the same time, new rotors, new brakes, paint calipers. Should keep me busy for a little while.
Unless you are going to powder coat them, stay away from white. The brake dust will embed in the paint over time and look like crap. You will be repainting them all the time. I say go black with a white car, and paint the bracket too.

To the OP. Nice job
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Old Mar 12, 2012 | 05:44 PM
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Though I painted mine black, my Duplicolor job has lasted almost 10 years and looks great.

Nice job
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Sonny,
I left them on and brushed them. As others have said, the
brush that came with the kit is junk, so I bought some brushes
in the crafts dept. at Wally World.
I jacked up one wheel at a time with my 1.5 ton jack I
bought at Harbor Freight.

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Old Mar 12, 2012 | 11:43 PM
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Awesome jdub2k5... Very much appreciate those pics of the white calipers. Now I just have to make up my mind. OP, very very nice....
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good job

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