Update: Rear drums painted and calipers painted, thanks for the color ideas Options

[Racer_J]

Yeah, come to mention it, those fogs do look pretty sweet! Nice idea! No offence intended with my comments about "inferior" brakes either, I'll choose my words more carefully in future. Black always looks best when you've got rear brake drums instead of discs/calipers.

No worries on the "inferior" brakes, i know they are drums and drums are . I have a non-stop smile bc migga loves my car so much Oh and ur welcome on the radar detector idea. I'm still thinking about what color for my calipers though, bronze? dark blue? red/maroon?

Is your car a dark green/grey metallic? If so, maybe bronze would look best? I wouldn't worry too much about doing a rear disc conversion either for the time being. Nobody's gonna notice your drums if you've painted them black anyhow. I don't know what kind of power your car is putting out but if you don't feel its enough to justify getting a disc conversion at the moment, then don't.

You mentioned in a previous post that you were doing some bodywork on your car, getting rid of the rust? maybe that should be your priority, although I have to admit, I can't see any rough bodywork anywhere in your pics!

Anyway, enough of my BS, hope your knee surgery goes well!

[6gcSTVT]

Yeah next summer I'll be tackling the body rust. Its hard to see in my pics but it's eating my driverside door, front pass fender, and rear drivers fender. The car color is toyota grey, at the CSP meet this weekend several of the guys circled my car and checked the paintcode bc they didn't think it was an oem color

I have acl surgery june 11th, and since i've decided to have a fun summer till then and not work I have plenty of time on my hands to get the small things on my car done. I'll take a look into the bronze caliper paint next time I'm out which should be today. Thanks for the input!

[hurley97]

use that POR15 stuff Manny was talking about. I've seen what can happen to those doors if you let it go too far and it scares me, I'll be putting some on my doors just to prevent it entirely... and you're in VT so by this time next year you won't have doors anymore haha

just do the rear disc conversion. its easy, looks good, and you'd be able to paint it right since they'll be off the car. I think red is a classic color for calipers and looks really good. I don't know if you saw my rear calipers but hey are high temp "Ford Red" (so are Dustin's)

[6gcSTVT]

I went to autozone and went with your "ford red" suggestion steph. After looking at blue and another color red I found the "ford red" in the high temp engine paint section. I will post up pics of my rear drum painting as well as the calipers once I finish. I'll save the rear disc conversion for next summer

I'll also look into that POR15 stuff but my door is beyond saving at this point.

[6gcSTVT]

UPDATES! So I finally have pics of the rear drum painting process and the calipers, it took me 3 hours to do the calipers bc I bounced around the house and my bros car and talking to the family..oh and I forgot to lift both sides at the same time and do them together and I ended up doing one side at a time. Should take anyone around an hour and a half to do. (calipers)




Oxidized rotors after washing the car....oh well

[manphibian]

The color of your car is stunning

[Daftboy]

looks bad @ss...now if only i had the time too do mine....i think im going with black thou

[Lovo]

idk i think bronze would look dope on a black car, not on this bluish/black color. i like the red.

[devilsden97]

whos the hottie in the shot? lol

Your girl was awsome to come all the way to the CSP meet. U definatly got a keeper man...keep the car looking good.

[jason]

^x2 haha, good job with the brakes! motivates me to do mine sometime soon!

[Defgeph]

That color is great. Nice work on the car!