So I ordered my new suspension and thought about how since i'm taking off the wheels I might as well paint the calipers and put on some cross drilled/slotted rotors.

My dilemma:

I have a Spectra blue 98 GS3, and I can't decide which color, blue imho looks a litlle weird, red stands out too much for stock brakes, but silver looks nice....

Could you guy's post up some pictures of your brake calipers, especially if you have a blue GS.

Here's a pic of my car if it helps, if someone could do a couple photochops, it would be much appreciated.

 

There are a bunch of old threads asking a similar question (the first thread I link is for a blue GS specifically). Did you use search ?

Dex painted his black on his 98 Spectra Blue and I think that looks best. I had silver on mine before, but changed to black. Silver didn't match the other colors of silver inside my wheel... always thought "too much silver going on in there".


https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...=caliper+paint
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https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...=caliper+paint
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This one has a pic of mine when they were silver
https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...=paint+caliper

 

Thanks dave, seen a couple of those threads but not all of them. I cant decide between silver or blue paint......

 

I think blue will stand out more but silver is classier. Depends on the look you want. The only issue is color match. If you will be going with a different shade of blue altogether, then it is not as bad. If you are trying to match the car color, then you may have a hard time and you will have a slight mismatch when looking at the car.

If it was down to those two colors, I would go with silver. But that's just me.

 

Yeah, I'm leaning more towards silver

 

either black or silver, period

 

i think spetrabluelex did blue pads.....it does stand out more...its up 2 u buddy.....

 

Would blue pads on a blue car stand out enough for what you're trying to accomplish?

 

It's between silver and blue, and I think blue looks a little funky, I'm thinking silver.....

 

silver is a good choice...blue is considerd a little ricey, now we rn't trying 2 change u'r mind here just trying 2 help

 

After seeing pictures with blue calipers, it does look a little ricey, especially with the gap between my wheels.....decisions decisions.

 

our blue has a little sparkle 2 it...no need 2 c blue sparkle out from the wheels..

 

lol, I can see someone trying to mix chrome sparkles into some paint to try to match the blue

 

Talk about RICEY!

 

My brother has a dark blue first-gen GS300 (darker than Spectra Blue). Since he was not going to upgrade the brake size on this car, we wanted the brakes to be subtle (tiny brakes behind his 19" wheels would look silly, we thought).

For his application, I used "Engine Builder's Cast Grey" I bought at Pep Boys. This has a slight illusion of a subtle metallic, but it is actually a matte finish. Looks terrific on the stock GS brakes.

Dude, are you going to lower that thing? Holy cow! Also, I might suggest removing the extra rub strip on the doors for a cleaner look.