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GranTurismo 15 February 2001 01:16 PM

Hello,

I am having some lovley new Discs/Pads (TarOx Japan) fitted on Monday and I was considering painting my calipers to make everything look nice. My Scoob is a N plate which means that it has the unfinshed calipers, not the black ones with Subaru written on em.

The Car is Green Mica with Gold Prodive/Speedlines

So the Choice is
Dont bother
Black (Subtle)
Red (Noticable)
Blue (????)
Yellow is not an option becuase its skanky

Any opinions.

Ps No I cant afford to upgrade the calipers to something decent (yet!)

Doc 15 February 2001 01:43 PM

I went with black when I upgraded the fronts to 4 pots but then I am quite boring http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/wink.gif

Squizz 15 February 2001 01:46 PM

Dave, as you've already got gold (cough!), then why not take a leaf outta the new WRX STi book of finishing touches?

Gold calipers?

( http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/tongue.gif I hate gold !)

Mandi 15 February 2001 01:54 PM

I have gold oz`s and have painted calipers gold.

Kempo 15 February 2001 02:01 PM

Had cr@p unfinished calipers - N plate

Now have nice Gold calipers! Car is silver so it does look nice.

I reckon red with the gold and green would go...

Mick 15 February 2001 04:16 PM

It's hard enough getting round to cleaning the inside edges of the wheels http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/biggrin.gif - If you paint the calipers they'd need to get cleaned too http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/frown.gif

Mick

RichS 15 February 2001 06:46 PM

Personally I would go with red, but then my car is silver with silver wheels...

Might look good with gold wheels/green paint though.

Rich http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/smile.gif

salsa-king 15 February 2001 08:10 PM

well i have just changed to the MY99/00 6spokes (in gold)on my MY97 red scooby, so i painted my 4pots and rears in RED!!!

looks awesome, dead easy to paint on the car! will hi-light the subaru letters when i hav time! will do them in black.

i think i had enough caliper paint left over to do the whole of the SIDC club!!! shame the pot life is only 4 hours. http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/frown.gif
taking wheels off and fitting new + cleaning brakes (with the cleaner provied) then painting brakes didn't take long at all, about 90mins or so.

Phil

Floyd 15 February 2001 10:17 PM

Stratman did his in Hammerite smooth(red) and it looks good and has stayed like that. £4.99 a tin. Top.

F

Fizz 15 February 2001 10:48 PM

Black. No cleaning required! By the way you should have shopped around I got my 4 pots supplied and fitted for 400 from a local dealer. But anyhow Black


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