Just wondering if any of you have painted your brake calipers...i would love to see some pics. I have an Aero Blue Xfire and wondering what colour will look best...a friend of mine as a Porsche in blue and the calipers are yellow they look stunning...pics welcome thanks guys.

 

If you go to the crossfirefrank roll bar thread you will see my graphite gray roadster with red calipers.

 

Franks XF Below:

 

That looks very nice I plan to do it eventually as well... and yea red is definitely the way to go.

 

Why paint your calipers? Do they make you stop faster?
Looks ugly to me, the red color doesn't match anything on the car, and unless they are a big grippy aftermarket caliper kit, I just have to say... WHY???

 

I left mine factory black... they already looked pretty good so I'll leave them be. If I have to redo them I have some black caliper paint for just such an occasion.

 

I did mine black as the car is black.
The only reason I painted them is they were looking rather tatty.

Norrie.

 

I am painting mine this summer also. I have a sapphire silver. And I'm debating between red or yellow.

 

Romio,

On your car, I think that either the body color or black would probably look better than red or yellow.

The Crossfire didn't come with red or yellow calipers, so unless you had a big brake upgrade, it's kind of a 'Wal Mart' upgrade if you know what I mean.

To really give your calipers a unique look and make them reflect the car's style you could do this... disassemble the calipers, and have the bodies HP coated or ceramic coated clear. Polished or not first this would give them a silver look you just can't get any other way and it wouldn't be chrome, so not too much shiny in there.

 

They are already the casted silver. Which is pretty close to my color now. I want it to stand out, not blend in. If they were black you wouldn't see them.

 

just bought red paint caliper kit for my car...

 

Red looks pretty good IMHO. It lets them stand out but not too much and could be mistaken for stock. Here's a pic of mine I did a while back. They still look good and it actually makes the calipers easier to clean since the dirt doesn't stick to the paint very well.

 

its not very clean but red on red looks nice.

 

yea i think i want to go with a dark deep glossy red like bobs, and less orange red like psuperti.

 

i bought the dupli-color anyone know what that one looks like? after being painted.

 

I don't know I like fluorescent Green myself.

 

Take a look at my picture, it's dupli-color.

 

I tried earlier to get black folia tech lacquer kit for calipers and it was not available through the vendor. Anyone know where I can find this brand in black or can you recommend another lacquer type kit.

 

If its no secret what kit did bobs use? I really like the glossy look?

 

IMO what would look better is to keep the calipers stock color and do the Crossfire lettering in white on them. My Porsche has really nice 4 piston Brembos and across the caliper it says PORSCHE. It looks cool.