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Old 12-17-2010, 03:13 PM
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Gonna paint the stock calipers on my black C6 over the holidays...problem is I can't decide on a color! Any suggestions? I was thinking either red, ZR1 blue, or yellow
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How about green or peach or magenta or cyan lol.... that would be different
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Originally Posted by Jerky
Gonna paint the stock calipers on my black C6 over the holidays...problem is I can't decide on a color! Any suggestions? I was thinking either red, ZR1 blue, or yellow

Just my opinions:
Red - good on black, red, silver, white, gray cars
Blue - good on blue car, looks like Ford engine blue otherwise
Yellow - calls too much attention to itself except on yellow car
Black - Classy look, especially on black car
Old 12-17-2010, 03:28 PM
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Here is mine with Red.

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All brake calipers should be red.

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Here is the Rear. As you can tell I decided to do the Caliper Brackets in Black.

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I'm going with ZR1 Blue powder coat on my calipers. I thought about all the reds (which are many), black, yellow, green, orange and the blues. Mike the Powdercoater has a bunch of colors to look at on his site. Might give you an idea. I'm going powdercoat as I'm kinda OCD about my cars and powdercoating is the way to go.

Its your car. Do what you like!


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Old 12-17-2010, 03:40 PM
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man,i think the red looks good....but EVERYONE has done it. i have seen a blk/blk wheels z06 w/ yellow calipers that looked amazing,really pops behind the wheels............saw a blk zr1 w/ blue calipers and it looked good to....dare to be differant
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Red is the easy choice, not a bad one either but pretty common, I would go for yellow.
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Originally Posted by Kontra06
I'm going with ZR1 Blue powder coat on my calipers. I thought about all the reds (which are many), black, yellow, green, orange and the blues. Mike the Powdercoater has a bunch of colors to look at on his site. Might give you an idea. I'm going powdercoat as I'm kinda OCD about my cars and powdercoating is the way to go.

Its your car. Do what you like!


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Originally Posted by TBonez
How about green or peach or magenta or cyan lol.... that would be different
How 'bout I do one of each! lol
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Gold plate. Good investment too.
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Originally Posted by mike96ss
Here is mine with Red.

those are sweet!! did you do them yourself?
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ZR1 Blue hands down
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Originally Posted by peter pan
ZR1 Blue hands down
Old 12-17-2010, 05:19 PM
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Thanks. Sure did. Wanted to see how long the Caliper paint would last. Really simple job.
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Red on a Black car is my vote.

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Old 12-17-2010, 07:02 PM
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I am going to do my silver C6 with the Porsche turbo yellow. It s not the bright yellow thats on the C6.



My car is silver
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Here's a good shot of what it will look like in yellow. Mine arrive next week !



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Originally Posted by NZYCAR
Here's a good shot of what it will look like in yellow. Mine arrive next week !



That DOES look good!


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