[Blakngold4life]

I will be painting my calipers and brackets this weekend, originally I was thinking both the caliper and bracket blue with black veloster decals. I want something a little different, how do you think it would look with the brackets blue and calipers black with blue decals? I've never seen one done like this but it looks good in my head. If someone wants to do a photoshop it would be great, any feedback and other ideas are welcome. My car is black with blue accents and I will be plasti dipping the stock wheels gloss black with the inserts remaining chrome, lug nuts will possibly be powder coated blue also. Im looking for something different but dont want to look gaudy or ricey.

 

[Mutt1131]

Black with chrome inserts will be good I'd just leave lug nuts chrome to blue is gonna clash to many colors and look like shit I did mine white with chrome

 

[AZG23]

it will make the brakes look even smaller than they are...

 

[Blakngold4life]

Here is a rough photoshop of my idea, what do you think? I do notice the colors are off, if they were off by this much on the final product I would absolutely redo them to match.

 

[Kaishi]

Here is a rough photoshop of my idea, what do you think? I do notice the colors are off, if they were off by this much on the final product I would absolutely redo them to match.
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it's a nice contrast, but I think all blue with a black or white decal would be stronger, albeit louder. This way looks a little noisy but not very bright, might be too subtle or minimizing.

 

[swordfish]

Here is a rough photoshop of my idea, what do you think?

All black or all blue, if you ask me.

 

[13EliteVT]

I agree on the all same color. I'd say blue if you're going for different. Black on the caliper will make it disappear behind the black wheels. It will almost make it look like there is no caliper and just a bracket...lol

 

[Blakngold4life]

My blue decal ended up being a lighter blue than I wanted, so I went with the black bracket, blue caliper with a black decal.

 

[mwil028]

looks good! I think it makes the caliper looks smaller then it actually is. I really like the decal.

 

[Dmilinare]

Do you happen to have the step by step of how you did it?

 

[Jg429]

Did you just wrap the rotor, or take everything off?

 

[Blakngold4life]

I thought about doing the brackets blue to match, I agree the black brackets do make the caliper appear smaller. But because of the difference in material in the bracket and caliper, I didn't think the colors would match or age the same. I dont have a write up per se with pictures, but I can give you a basic idea of how I did it.
Products used were all aerosol: Blue Duplicolor Break Paint- Eastwood (wasnt sure if my local store would have blue, and they didn't), VHT Black VHT high temp engine enamel- Advance Auto, Clear VHT high temp engine enamel- Advance Auto, Black Veloster Decal- GTAdecal, Painters tape and paper from Lowes. The only thing I didnt just have laying around was the Blue and Clear paint and the decal, my total cost was around $20 and time was around 2 hours.
1) Remove Wheels
2) Remove 2 Caliper bolts and remove
3) Slide paper over rotor and bracket, replace caliper. This allows you to make sure you paint the areas that are seen, along with giving a solid place to leave the caliper. Tape paper around wheel well to catch overspray
4) Paint Caliper- I did about three medium coats
5) After the Caliper has dried remove the caliper and tie it up out of the way and cover it with paper.
6) Use paper to cover the rotor, I used a note card to cover the break pad.
7) Paint Bracket- three medium coats again.
8) After paint has dried remove paper and reinstall caliper.
9) Install Decal
10) Tape up as much as possible
11) Paint clear over caliper and bracket to seal the decal
12) Remove paper and reinstall wheels

 

[SkittleZ]

Wondering how long that decal will last under autocrossing it a few times. The heat must surely melt the glue on the back side of it.

 

[Blakngold4life]

Im really not sure, that was the reason for putting the clear overtop of the decal. I will let you know how it holds up at the end of the season.

 

[Ricky-D]

Do you think the calipers are originally powder coated or are they simply painted?

I can't tell.

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[Blakngold4life]

Wondering how long that decal will last under autocrossing it a few times. The heat must surely melt the glue on the back side of it.

After almost a full season of autocross the stickers are held on just as the day they left the shop, with the clear coat the blue paint hasn't faded either. However, replacing tires in a rush every couple weeks has led to a couple small chips in the paint that I'm not to happy about.