Drums and Calipers Color?

[Cb7Black9192]

Hey guys, So my car is being painted Nighthawk black pearl with about a gram of blue flake in it, my rims are going the same color, what color should I paint my drums and calipers? Suggestions?

[deevergote]

Whatever color you want. It's your car.
Personally, I think colored drums look awful, and colored calipers only look right in certain instances. I'd paint them black.

[Cb7Black9192]

Whatever color you want. It's your car.
Personally, I think colored drums look awful, and colored calipers only look right in certain instances. I'd paint them black.

I was considering painting them white, to stand out a bit

[xkjnboix]

x2 on what deeve said

convert to calipers it will look 1000x better

[Cb7Black9192]

x2 on what deeve said

convert to calipers it will look 1000x better

I will see how the drums look, I was thinking about converting anyway but I may like drums just as much

[crazymikey]

Black drums with gold/bronze calipers.

[Cb7Black9192]

Black drums with gold/bronze calipers.

That actually sounds like it might look pretty good.

[tommi]

I have my calipers on the 4 Dr blk and my coupe red. It's all about personal preference

[crazymikey]

That actually sounds like it might look pretty good.

Personally, drums any other colour than black are ugly. Brake drums are not nice to look at in the first place. Putting a nice coat of black paint on them will somewhat hide them, but when you do see them, they atleast look clean and appear more of a detail than a "hey look at my brake drums! My car is a base model!"

With the calipers, I like to pick a colour that complements the exterior colour or the wheels. Again, not one of those things I like to have say "OMG lime green brake calipers!"

I have a white car with white rims. My calipers are bronze and my drums are black. Ties it all in nicely without standing out too much.



And that's my 2 Canadian pennies of advice.

[HardInThePaint]

Painting drums is on the same level as painting steelies... Jank as hell. You're basically enhancing the bullshit on an already bullshit part. Flat black is good though.

Calipers can look good in certain instances. But a vehicle with both discs and drums is not one of those instances. Even when you have discs all the way around, painted calipers sometimes looks wack. It all depends on the color and how the car is made to look really. But IMO if you got discs up front and drums in the back then I would keep it black and only black.

And that's my 2 Canadian pennies of advice.

Lol, well thats not saying much considering they stopped making those.

[crazymikey]

Lol, well thats not saying much considering they stopped making those.

Yeah but look how many are still in circulation and hidden in random spots.

[CB7 R3ason]

did mine red looks ok now my car is christmas colors

[CyborgGT]

crazysmikey's look sick. But otherwise if I had colored calipers they had better be yellow with a Porsche attached. Ceramic ftw!

... I get Canadian pennies all the time at work

[H311RA151N]

Black drums with gold/bronze calipers.

That was exactly what i was going to say! That would look sick