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Opinion Needed: Red brake calipers OR no?

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Old 03-15-07, 07:37 PM
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Default Opinion Needed: Red brake calipers OR no?
Hello all. I am taking my car in tommorrow to my buddys shop to do the brake calipers. Here are two pictures of my car below. He has a car similar to mine and the red looks real nice.

Question is. Should i do RED brake calipers or no? If no, then black? But to me black wont give any detail. Please help, thanks folks.



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I say do the red and lexus decals. Would look nice on the car and stand out.
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Originally Posted by Spyder78
I say do the red and lexus decals. Would look nice on the car and stand out.
Thanks for the opnion. I think red would look nice. And remember the car isnt done yet. Itll be lowered, and my roof and lip spoiler need to be installed.
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red= aftermarket and something to show off... black=something that you just cleaned up and wanted to make presentable with the rims. i would go black
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I think both would look good. Black caliper and white decal or Red caliper black decal..Both would give detail...
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hmmm. Confusing. I think Red would look nice because it would look aftermarket and get more compliments. Black doesnt add much.

Im thinking red. Not sure about adding a decal though like tmf suggested. Never looked into it...
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red for a bbk black for stocks
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I am sticking to stock brakes. Will the black paint on the caliper even add anything? I wanted something that compiments the rims and car. Black might look nice, but too stock. I looked at some pics, very confusing.
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Since you're on a short timeframe, you might want to use the search feature of our forum to look for similar posts and get some instant feedback

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Originally Posted by lexusondubs
red for a bbk black for stocks
My thoughts exactly.
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Red for aftermarket brakes, black for factory. As stated a few times above
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red, gold, blue, etc for aftermarket bbk

black or white for stock
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