Caliper Color Suggestions?

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pink.


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White Red Lettering.

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im going to have to go with that project mu blue.

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Actually, Project Mu is a aqua/teal color....... I had them on my Sti.

Endless is the blue color.

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red

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Broadfield wrote:Yellow is absolutely the worst color I can think of, so don't bother suggesting it.
I disagree, Yellow is veerry niiece! Do it NOW!


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I painted mine gold and i like the way they came out.

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if you choose gold, you'd want to color match to your wheels... otherwise it may look pretty janksauce

p.s. I just threw up a little when I saw those yellow calipers...

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gold calipers will look good on his gold wheels

gold on gold y0!

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Gold Brembo Calipers Have Always Complimented Nissan Nicely.

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mattblancarte wrote:if you choose gold, you'd want to color match to your wheels... otherwise it may look pretty janksauce

p.s. I just threw up a little when I saw those yellow calipers...
Actually, my gold Brembos on the Sti looked great with my gold Volk LE's...... and they were completely different colors. If I tried to match them on my 240, then they wouldn't stand out at all behind the fat spokes of the Meisters.




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easily one of the nicest stis ive seen.

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you must like clean white cars lol

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spooled240 wrote:you must like clean white cars lol
You could say that.

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Broadfield wrote:Actually, my gold Brembos on the Sti looked great with my gold Volk LE's...... and they were completely different colors. If I tried to match them on my 240, then they wouldn't stand out at all behind the fat spokes of the Meisters.
That's a good point. Now that I see that combo, I definitely agree with you. Still voting for red, though.

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Always liked your car, Toby. I think red would provide the perfect amount of "pop".

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mattblancarte wrote:That's a good point. Now that I see that combo, I definitely agree with you. Still voting for red, though.
ScottManUGA wrote:Always liked your car, Toby. I think red would provide the perfect amount of "pop".
Yeah, I have always been leaning towards red, but I like to keep my options open.

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you really cant go wrong with red, or white with red lettering

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black or red...maybe even white but dust will be noticed more up close

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red, nice contrast to white

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I say go for the gold, maybe a bit darker than your wheels . Kind of off topic, but do you have a picture of your 240sx next to your STI, cause that would be one hell of a picture .

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Though my gear is no where near on par with yours, I found myself in a similar situation recently after re-sealing my calipers. Z32's front and rear. They were painted gold (paid a grip for some authentic Brembo touch up paint) before I had them stripped and cleaned. I went to my local O'Rielly's and looked over the rattle can selection.I chose Old Ford blue engine enamal. I sprayed some on both light grey primer and black primer and ended up using the grey primer as my base. The shade was darker than the cap suggested but with the lighter primer the color "popped" more. It was brighter. Then I simply sanded down the Nissan lettering and sprayed a couple of coats of clear. Now they really stand out, and the color is pretty close to my aluminum lug nuts/valve stems. That is my suggestion. And the color works really well behind gold wheels.

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AutoShadow wrote:Kind of off topic, but do you have a picture of your 240sx next to your STI, cause that would be one hell of a picture .
Sorry, I do not. I have tons of pictures of each, but not together. I never owned them at the same time. My good friend owned my 240 when I had the Sti, but the 240 was mostly stock. So we never took pictures together. Come to think of it, I never take group shots of cars..... don't like it.

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Is there any other bitchin cars we should know about??

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well i say either the red or gold, i like gold mostly because my car is gold, the wheels im getting are gonna be gold with chrome lip so i think the calipers will look nice gold, by the way anyone got a pic of work equip 03's on a gold 240 s13?

oops anyways the red will look nice because your car is white but, you dont want anything flashy and the red calipers with the white s13 will deff stand out but thats my $0.02 ...........PEEP!

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White would be dope! But hard to maintain. I say baby-blue-ish. It would compliment it really nice, and stand out to a certain point (somewhat flashy, but not too much!). Or teal. DO IT!

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i have ceramic pads up front and the brake dust is like white(kinda like crack lol) but my rears are the regular material which blacken my wheels and calipers. I'd say go for the ceramic pads or any pad that won't give off black brake dust if you decide to do white calipers.

White would look cool because they will stand out but match you car so it will look flashy and clean at the same time

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Definitely Red.


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nevertheless wrote:Is there any other bitchin cars we should know about??
Should have seen his Kenne Belle blown dakota .

I'm kinda likin this white idea. if you do a blue though, just compensate for the shadows your wheels cast and do a shade lighter.


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