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Old Jan 26, 2009 | 08:23 AM
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Default Thinking of spraying my calipers.

Got a white STI RA with black wheels and was thinking of spraying my calipers, but not sure what colour.

Any suggestions or pics of similar?
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Old Jan 26, 2009 | 08:52 AM
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Either pink or blue...

No pics to hand though!
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Old Jan 26, 2009 | 10:52 AM
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Yellow
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Old Jan 26, 2009 | 11:08 AM
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I was thinking of a lime greeny colour, but not sure if this would look stupid?!?
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Old Jan 26, 2009 | 12:37 PM
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red, lime green would look silly. It is your car though.
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Old Jan 26, 2009 | 07:00 PM
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red yellow or black is the only colour , and you will have to hand paint them rather than spray them . they will come out better
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Old Jan 26, 2009 | 07:10 PM
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You can get blue, red, black and yellow, personally its either red or black, and these come in kits, you soak them first which removes all the crap thats on them, leave them to dry for a day or two then paint them, you may have to totally strip your calipers if you do it this way though, and rebuild them with a caliper seal kit.

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Old Jan 26, 2009 | 07:24 PM
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my bro did calipers red his on his audi tt, he bought a boxed caliper painting kit, from (i feel a bit silly calling it halfords as no-one else does so,), halfraudulents, come out pretty good too, he did spend a lot of time with a drill and wire brush first though.
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Old Jan 26, 2009 | 07:31 PM
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They dont come much better than this.

https://www.scoobynet.com/essex-scoo...r-brembos.html

Frayz doesnt do half jobs.
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Old Jan 26, 2009 | 07:37 PM
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dont need no fancy kits

wilkos sells everything you would need for under a tenner
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Old Jan 26, 2009 | 07:42 PM
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I used halfords high temp paint, cost around £8 iirc. I've posted this oic a few times, but never pass up another chance!

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Old Jan 26, 2009 | 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by mit
I used halfords high temp paint, cost around £8 iirc. I've posted this oic a few times, but never pass up another chance!

did you paint the word subaru ??? and how ???
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Old Jan 26, 2009 | 07:48 PM
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You should paint them black to match your wheels and tyres.
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Old Jan 26, 2009 | 08:30 PM
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HI



i used smoothrite(hammerite) spray, then for the white writing i used smoothrite paint applied using a hard radiator roller(the hardest type you can find) as this only applies paint to the letters with them being raised.

Did the same for the backs, however used a sticker for the letters



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Old Jan 26, 2009 | 11:24 PM
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what about the gold brembo paint? Where do you get that from?
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Old Jan 27, 2009 | 07:38 PM
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Did you paint these on the car or were they removed
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Old Jan 27, 2009 | 07:52 PM
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I panted them off the car,before replaceing the rubbish 2 pots.
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Old Jan 27, 2009 | 08:19 PM
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Originally Posted by PG03WRX
Did you paint these on the car or were they removed
i did mine on the car with some very careful masking
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Old Jan 27, 2009 | 08:45 PM
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black or red for me!!
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