Painting calipers and drums - you pick the color

[bondjames]

I'm going to paint my front calipers and rear drums. Can't decide between these options. What do you think? If you have an additional color suggestion I like, I'll add it to the poll as well.Here's the Car:

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[ajflan]

Black. You dont want to advertise the fact that you have rear drums lol. Thats what I did.

[vibolista]

Silver isn't too showy if you have silver wheels in front of the calipers. Black is a great idea, especially if you use a dark wheel. How hard would it be to replace the rear drums with disks?

[bull77]

Quote, originally posted by ajflan »Black. You dont want to advertise the fact that you have rear drums lol. Thats what I did.+1 -- and get the caliper stickers from grafxwerks, so the calipers stand out

[NibCrom]

Quote, originally posted by ajflan »Black. You dont want to advertise the fact that you have rear drums lol. Thats what I did.+1

[Mavrik]

I painted mine a flat black. but a gloss black would look nice to.

[bondjames]

Ok, looks like black is the winner so far. I'm not going to do it this week (board exam coming up), but hopefully will get it done before it gets cold out.It's probably time to change the caliper pads soon, along with the drum shoes. Is it really as easy to change the drum to a caliper on the rear as it is to paint it? I wouldn't want to mess it up and fishtail out of control or fail to stop.

[sstress]

I shot mine with satin black. Its not super shiny so it hides the ugly metal, yet doesnt hold dirt like flat black will.

[AKLGT]

just paint the calipers, not the drums. that just looks wierd.

[Amtron]

Black gloss calipers, I think anything else in your colour would look off. I would also paint the drums flat black. It'll be dark so no one notices them. It's better than the rusty look though if they've gotten to that point.+1 for getting caliper decals from grafxwerks