Based on what colours I have in the garage, I'm thinking about painting them silver with black coloured lettering:wonder:

Anyone else done anything different... mine is a savanna green bug so I'm thinking red might not be right:wonder: :wonder:

BTW Wheels are std silver

Or black with silver lettering...

Just painting mine the original colour of red with white lettering, may not be original but looks damn good, still waiting for the white paint to be delivered, hoping to get the 2 pots off and the 4 pots on tonight :)

will get pics up asap :)

i had mine the usual red with white lettering.
them i had a mad moment and went sti pink with black letters.:freak3:

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s26/dmrbiker1/Image009-1.jpg

and now they are samco blue with white letters

not too in your face grey with white lettering maybe:thumb:

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg44/simonsti6/DSC01250.jpg

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg44/simonsti6/DSC01251.jpg

My repainted 4 pot on my old bugeye, black and gold


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/kjdavies46/Subaru/100_0072.jpg


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/kjdavies46/Subaru/100_0073.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/kjdavies46/Subaru/100_0073.jpg)

Liking the grey:thumb:

Did mine last weekend.
http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll36/timothy457/Carparts047.jpg
http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll36/timothy457/Carparts048.jpg

Did mine last weekend.
http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll36/timothy457/Carparts047.jpg
http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll36/timothy457/Carparts048.jpg

they look great! :)

So how do you get such neat lettering back on the calipers?

steady hand and patience. Its raised so it can be done neatly. Another method is to cover the letters with masking tape, then use a scalpel to remove the letters only, leaving the exposed letters. :)

did mine with smoothrite spary and white hammerite with a radiator roller(the hard one)

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj124/stuartknox/subarubrakes016a.jpg

also did rears, got stickers for them though

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj124/stuartknox/rear-1.jpg


looks good:)

i had mine the usual red with white lettering.
them i had a mad moment and went sti pink with black letters.:freak3:

http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s26/dmrbiker1/Image009-1.jpg

and now they are samco blue with white letters

Really liking those wheels and calipers!

I painted them red,then ran a file over the lettering when dry,which gave the white a better surface to stick to. That roller idea sounds much easyer!

not too in your face grey with white lettering maybe:thumb:

http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg44/simonsti6/DSC01250.jpg (http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg44/simonsti6/DSC01250.jpg)



They look great those mate, very professional!

i painted mine blue,thats what i had left from doing my 2pots and the rears were still blue so did the 4 pots blue.

left the subaru letterin alone,so its all blue.

i think any more paint on them and they will rub my wheels,the clearance is about 2/3mm at present !!!

mine were quite rough condition wise so it was hard to polish them up to smooth castging

Yeah, mine were very rusty on the backs mostly,used a small pin hammer to chip it away,then finished with a wire brush.Took ages!

do you have to use caliper paint or can you use hammerite as i have a full can of black and mine are desperate for a paint

i thought they had to withstand a certain temperature

Have done both mine and my girlfriends scoob

Hers before

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/cdodsworth/caliperafteraclean.jpg


Hers after

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/cdodsworth/caliperafter.jpg

Mine in red

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/cdodsworth/DSCF0179.jpg

Mine now in black (has white lettering now)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/0903/cdodsworth/DSCF0225.jpg