View Poll Results: To match or not to match my front and rear calipers?

Red fronts, Red rears with matching "LEXUS" stickers.

88.00%

Red fronts, Stock TT look rears - black with "Supra"

12.00%

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Jun 10, 2007 | 03:40 PM

Slinger

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Caliper painting poll:

I need your advice and thoughts on painting my calipers. I am in the garage cleaning as we speak and trying to decide which way to go:

I am putting LS400 fronts on
and
Supra TT rears.

I am painting the fronts RED and stickering in Black.

Should I do the TT rears the same or leave em stock black with the Supra stickers on??

Jun 10, 2007 | 05:11 PM

SFFD785

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Im going to be painting my calipers a light bronz. Can you post a pic of LS400 brakes? I would like to see what they look like.

Jun 10, 2007 | 05:20 PM

Slinger

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I am waiting for my rotors and pads to get here via UPS. Hoping for this week so I can be ready by our B.O.S.3 *crossing fingers*

Once I get the rotors and pads, and the paint and stickers are done, I will snap some pics no problem.

Jun 10, 2007 | 07:38 PM

SeanB

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Rustoleum Gloss black with Lexus stickers in front and L stickers on rear '94 GS. Works all the time for me.

Jun 10, 2007 | 09:39 PM

Blizzy

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I painted my calipers all black, putting decals on the LS400 calipers only. I prefer black for a more subtle look. But, since you are going the red route, I think you have you go red on all four corners for continuity. The is no reason to shy away from attention to the TT Rears; they are just as impressive as the LS400 fronts.

Jun 10, 2007 | 10:44 PM

Black_SC

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Quote:

Originally Posted by SFFD785

Im going to be painting my calipers a light bronz. Can you post a pic of LS400 brakes? I would like to see what they look like.

here's my LS400 calipers painted black with silver stickers...

Jul 2, 2007 | 02:51 AM

Fireblaze

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Can someone please tell me where they get their LEXUS stickers from? I can't seem to find them anywhere.

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Jul 3, 2007 | 05:59 AM

Blizzy

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Fireblaze

Can someone please tell me where they get their LEXUS stickers from? I can't seem to find them anywhere.

I got mine from vinz decals. I found them via a google search. They can customize decals to whatever you want. I would suggest paying the extra money for their premium stickers since they are extra stout in design for the brakes that can get very hot. For $20, you get a dozen or more decals in various sizes. You really can't go wrong.

Here is a photo of my LS400 brakes, black with metallic silver "SOARER" decal:

Jul 7, 2007 | 09:22 PM

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udstuengt

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Blzzy, where do you live in Indiana?

I did my caliper red. I'd like to find Lexus logo decals for the calipers.

There used to be Brembo ones on Ebay a while ago. I'm not sure if they got pulled for copyright or just from time expiration.

Jul 24, 2007 | 10:32 PM

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CCC-TT

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you have to have em' matching

Jul 27, 2007 | 06:56 AM

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why do anything but matching, paint same color

Jul 27, 2007 | 08:18 AM

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KrazeMatik

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here is my brake painted black with white decals

Aug 2, 2007 | 06:02 PM

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GoldGS3

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LS400 calipers

I'm from 1st gen GS300 forum.

I'm interested in swaping my brake calipers with LS400 calipers.

I read in GS300 forum that SC and 1st gen GS300 brakes are of same size and dimension. I also read that only 95 LS400 calipers fit, and that stock GS300 rotors will fit.

Since you guys did the LS400 caliper swap, did all 95-00 LS400 caliper fit or only 95 LS400 caliper? Were you able to use the stock rotor or use LS400 specific brake rotors?

Thank in advance for sharing your knowledge.

Aug 2, 2007 | 07:14 PM

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BLK13X

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I'm not exactly sure when the 4-pots came out (I know they were in the UCF20 but not sure if it was released in the 1st series UCF20s). There's plenty of people that have fitted these calipers and rotors onto Soarers with no big dramas. I'm hoping to go down this route soon too.