What do you think?
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Le Mans Master
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From: Sacramento California
Thank you very much. Unfortunately the yellow does not exactly match, seems like the caliper paint yellow is more of Ford/Vette Millenium yellow variety, a bit darker than Velocity yellow. I think this is OK but still have not seen it in the daylight (rain still keeps coming). This actually took a whole weekend because the yellow paint is more like transluscent paint, takes minimum 5 coats to get full solid coverage plus had to wait while heat lamp was drying each coat. Painting letters was big PIA too. Thank God the rotors were easy to do. On C5, painting calipers and rotors and rubbing out the letters was only one full day job. I still wanna know how people get this stuff done in a couple of hours?
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Le Mans Master
Joined: Aug 2009
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From: Sacramento California
The color difference is actually not that severe looking in person but it is certainly there. The way I see considering the car is all yellow and black, either black rotors and calipers and yellow letters or black rotors, yellow calipers and black lettering. 
but this is on a black car
I just did not think this would look right on yellow car?
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Do you track your car? If not, you can use standard automotive paint to paint your calipers. That way you can get an exact match to your body color. I painted mine Monterey Red Metallic 4 years ago and they still look perfect (and this is on a daily driver). Under normal braking conditions, the calipers just do not get so hot that it will be a problem for standard automotive paint.
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Le Mans Master
Joined: Aug 2009
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From: Sacramento California
Do you track your car? If not, you can use standard automotive paint to paint your calipers. That way you can get an exact match to your body color. I painted mine Monterey Red Metallic 4 years ago and they still look perfect (and this is on a daily driver). Under normal braking conditions, the calipers just do not get so hot that it will be a problem for standard automotive paint.
I could go to paint store and have some right color single stage mixed, the problem is though I am not sure if that caliper paint is compatible with regular polyurethane paint? If the caliper paint starts lifting, I'd have a big mess... Maybe best is to take the car out, drive a bit and see if I can live with it, if not, I'd be painting the calipers black...
