Painted the Brake Calipers!

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  1. GooberMT

    GooberMT They See Me Rollin

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    Well, I decided to do the tire rotation tonight on the good ol Lunchbox, and got the wild hair up my ass to paint my calipers tonight! I was at the store and picked up the Iron Casting color, as all the other gray's sucked...one thing that caught my eye was hemi orange, i held both cans, but decided against the brightness and came home.

    It took some time, cleaning the calipers, taping them up, and I didnt even do a perfect job on the tape up job but they came out pretty good!

    The color scheme goes from shiny...dark...darkest lol

    here are the pics, mind you they suck, as the car isnt clean tonight, so I will do a shoot tomorrow with them

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    Thanks for looking!

    Gabriel
     
  2. Swirlone

    Swirlone New Member

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    cant see em anymore...... as long as you like it.
     
  3. Mains

    Mains Pobody's Nerfect

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    woulda stayed with red
     
  4. GooberMT

    GooberMT They See Me Rollin

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    The thing is, the red, shined so crazy and the car is dark. Your eyes, just latched to the redness, and thats mainly what you would pay attention to. Now you can admire everything on this Dark Knight.
     
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    Mains Pobody's Nerfect

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    then hit those god awful rims with something
     
  6. GooberMT

    GooberMT They See Me Rollin

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    already planning on doing something with the wheels :)
     
  7. Stretch

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    Nice clean job.
     
  8. GooberMT

    GooberMT They See Me Rollin

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    Thanks Stretch!
     
  9. FWSRT4

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    What happened to the pink I suggested???:grin:
     
  10. StevoSRT

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    I too woulda stayed with red...but its all about your taste...

    i will say you did a great job painting them...looks great....

    now im curious to see whats gonna go down w/ the wheels :hmm:
     
  11. GooberMT

    GooberMT They See Me Rollin

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    See the wheels on this Car :) Thats what I am now thinking about on the CSRT4 :D

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    They look great...thinking of painting mine black...:zorro:
     
  13. StevoSRT

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    the legmaker mod? haha
     
  14. turbosocks

    turbosocks srt n00b

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    calipers look alright. i woulda painted em a metallic black though. blend in too much for my tastes.

    the 'legmaker' mod would look pretty sweet i think.

    i wish i had your bolt pattern thats for sure. someone at my work just bought a acura TL-s and put new rims on it. i want the stock TL-S rims so so so bad.
     
  15. moparman53

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    It's too bland. If you didn't like red, than I'd paint them black to match the body.