Jump to content
SAU Community

Recommended Posts

Hey all, with all my cars im a big fan of spraying the calipers instead of leaving them the stock grey colour, but ive hit a snag, what colour calipers suite the burgundy colour skyline? nothing i can think of suits the rest of the car colour, id love to do bright red but im not sure that will sit well with the rest of the car being burgundy.

what do you guys think?

Link to comment
https://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/326905-what-colour-to-paint-break-calipers/
Share on other sites

I reckon go the same colour as your car, would look nice. Because a lot of the times, a home job bright red calipers makes the car look cheap lol. See it on heaps of shit boxes on the road ;)

lol home jobs look cheap? no waiz!

this is the rear caliper on my old skyline that i painted at home

post-49714-1277864060_thumb.jpg

imo it looks fken good, but i cant do this red, the only reason this one was red is because the car was white

Go Black FTW. they still look good but not wanky. Black and then sand back the nissan lettering if you want to. plus black and burgundy go together good. only other colour i can thing that wouldnt look bad is a brembo style bronze gold colour

lol home jobs look cheap? no waiz!

this is the rear caliper on my old skyline that i painted at home

post-49714-1277864060_thumb.jpg

imo it looks fken good, but i cant do this red, the only reason this one was red is because the car was white

That looks awesome!

lol home jobs look cheap? no waiz!

this is the rear caliper on my old skyline that i painted at home

post-49714-1277864060_thumb.jpg

imo it looks fken good, but i cant do this red, the only reason this one was red is because the car was white

Lol, I'll take my words back :rolleyes: I do admit the quality of it looks awesome.

But I said what I said because I've seen a lot of home jobs xD

Did you take them off your car to spray them?

haha, thanks guys, sometimes i wish i had a white car so i can do the same color

heh, thats ok mate. no i didnt take them off the car, just covered the surrounding areas!

It looks good as considering you didn't take em off your car :laugh:

hehe, behind the caliper was origional color, cos couldnt get the can behind there, nor see so meh.

does anyone know the actual name of the brenbo gold color? its not a straight gold...

id prefer an in your face colour, i wanna do the brembo gold, with either red or black nissan on it, but i cant seem to get the actual colour name of the gold that brembo use...

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • I would just put EBC back on the "I would not use their stuff" pile and move on.
    • Can I suggest you try EBC directly again and link them to as many competitor catalogues as you can to show their listing is incorrect, eg https://dba.com.au/product/front-4000-series-hd-brake-rotor-dba42304/ If you have access to an R33 GTST VIN and your VIN, you could also use a Nissan Parts lookup like Amayama to show them the part number is different between 33 GTST and 34 GTT which may get their attention
    • So i got reply from EBC and they just this site where you can clearly see those 296mm fronts on R34 GTT. I send them photos and "quotes" that 296mm are not for 34 GTT and they are too small. But it will be very hard to return them cuz nobody here knows 100% and they just copy those EBC catalogue :-D https://ebcbrakesdirect.com/automotive/nissan/skyline-r34
    • Hi, is the HKS  Tower Bar still available ? negotiable ? 🤔
    • From there, it is really just test and assemble. Plug the adapter cables from the unit into the back of the screen, then the other side to the car harness. Don't forget all the other plugs too! Run the cables behind the unit and screw it back into place (4 screws) and you should now have 3 cables to run from the top screen to the android unit. I ran them along the DS of the other AV units in the gap between their backets and the console, and used some corrugated tubing on the sharp edges of the bracket so the wires were safe. Plug the centre console and lower screen in temporarily and turn the car to ACC, the AV should fire up as normal. Hold the back button for 3 sec and Android should appear on the top screen. You need to set the input to Aux for audio (more on that later). I put the unit under the AC duct in the centre console, with the wifi antenna on top of the AC duct near the shifter, the bluetooth antenna on the AC duct under the centre console The GPS unit on top of the DS to AC duct; they all seem to work OK there are are out of the way. Neat cable routing is a pain. For the drive recorder I mounted it near the rear view mirror and run the cable in the headlining, across the a pillar and then down the inside of the a pillar seal to the DS lower dash. From there it goes across and to one USB input for the unit. The second USB input is attached to the ECUtec OBD dongle and the 3rd goes to the USB bulkhead connected I added in the centre console. This is how the centre console looks "tidied" up Note I didn't install the provided speaker, didn't use the 2.5mm IPod in line or the piggyback loom for the Ipod or change any DIP switches; they seem to only be required if you need to use the Ipod input rather than the AUX input. That's it, install done, I'll follow up with a separate post on how the unit works, but in summary it retains all factory functions and inputs (so I still use my phone to the car for calls), reverse still works like factory etc.
×
×
  • Create New...