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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 08:26 AM
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Originally Posted by latinochino
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Am I looking at this as, rather than spending the 38 seconds to unbolt the caliper and caliper bracket, you covered the rotor? if so, that's hilarious!

If not, ignore my above post
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 08:36 AM
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black mite be best color cause bmw Ms come with black and the 135is with M brakes. S brakes r smaller than bmws but the factory color makes very nice wheels/cars look just ok. i mean if u do your wheels touch up that caliper a bit. im lookin into doin a blue shade when i get nice wheels. my SRT-4 came with red from factory
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 09:45 AM
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I say paint them flat black like I did
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 04:58 PM
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Blk FTMFW
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 04:59 PM
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Originally Posted by chrisaltima
I say paint them flat black like I did
yup i agree i did the oem exhaust flt blk looks hard going to do the calipers next
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 06:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Driven
Originally Posted by latinochino' timestamp='1308356553' post='20694651
Pics are 2 years old

Am I looking at this as, rather than spending the 38 seconds to unbolt the caliper and caliper bracket, you covered the rotor? if so, that's hilarious!

If not, ignore my above post
Nothing wrong with that...I did it too. Why make things more difficult than you should, "38 seconds" or not? That's what I did also and it worked great. I used a silver brake caliper paint. Better but OEM, but subtle.

In response to the OP, yes red calipers are ricey. The reason it looks ok on Porsches and LFAs is because they have HUGE calipers. Little dinky S2000 calipers painted red are rice.

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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 07:30 PM
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Looks like new (OEM). What color is this?
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 07:54 PM
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Originally Posted by wiley_s2k
Looks like new (OEM). What color is this?
This is going to be a shocker......silver

I did the same from just caliper high-temp spray paint from Advanced Auto parts.
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Old Jun 21, 2011 | 07:58 PM
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Nice and simple, well done.
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Old Jun 22, 2011 | 05:40 AM
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Thank you! It was amazingly easy...the paint stuck much better than my wheel paint did. I just sprayed some brake caliper cleaner on a paper towel, rubbed and dried the caliper, sanded with some P400 sandpaper (I think), used the brake caliper cleaner again, and then just covered the rotor and sprayed. About 3 coats per caliper, 10 minutes apart.

On a side note, my favorite colors for calipers are white, gunmetal, silver, and black really.

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