i think it looks pretty fresh to paint you're valve cover but is painting my brake calipers using the same high temp paint (silver or black on a white EG) going to look gay?

i thought it would look ok but not anything like red cause i know they are shitty calipers so theres no point in trying to make them look expensive.

i was thinking a black silver or white.

just wondering cause i dont want to do it and look like a ***.

 

Its ok to paint your valve cover but not calipers.(rice)

 

i don't see anything wrong painting your calipers

 

yah i didn't think it would be too bad cause i some some pics of some builds and project cars and there were some bronze ones that looked good. but maybe they were actually really nice ones.

 

I wouldnt paint them anything flashy...maybe a silver too look stock

 

dont paint your calipers........youre ***** gonna look like a paysa car.....might as well get a shamu wing.

 

LMAO^^

 

word. but the thing that is a no no is painting the drum brake housing lol dumbest **** i have ever seen just a big bright lame POS chillin behind the wheel like WTF. I would go silver to make it blend in and look factory if your doing the calipers. Ah I wish i could afford the Spoon brake setup seeing that big blue caliper and nice slotted rotors so nice!

 

my friend painted them silver on his 97 DX Coupe and it looked ok. But the Silver Drums were gay as hell.

 

just as long you dont paint your caliper neon colors or some bright as effin colors like like green, yellow, RED ect...
but black or grey are coo IMO. will keep the stock look.

 

You mean like the guy who had my civic before me.....:






Just hot right there

 

calipers is one thing .. but any time you paint rear drums... i always seen it as kinda ricey but thats just my .02

 

Id do maybe black. Especially the drum. no other color on that one. Caliper black or maybe even red.

 

i cleaned the rust off my drums and painted them black!

gonna hit my front calipers with black too.

better than rust brown

 

dark color is ok.

 

i painted mine, so i dont think the are ricer,

 

ha that was some gay a$$ paint job on those drums. well i did the rear disk conversion so i think i'll be painting my callipers and my valve cover.

callipers: Silver or black (not metallic)
VC: Black w/ Silver lettering

and yah i think any thing that keeps it looking stock is good and i guess any thing beats the nice rusty look i have going now

 

I say if you feel the need to paint them just go with black. it's not ricey or flashy and looks better than rust.

 

i know your on here for others opnions but in my opnion i think painting them would be a little ricey...but its your car bro dont forget that...at the end of the day your gonna be the one driving it so as long as you enjoy it then do it!!!!!

 

i think it's just based on what color you paint'm,haha like if your car yellow and you go red RICE but like if you go all color matching like a nice shade of "bronze"or bla bla bla it's all good.

 

I always do rear discs on my civics and paint the calipers red. (3 civics so far)
I figure if I'm going to put rear discs, I might as well show them off a little.
Plus I have si rims so you cant see the caliper that much.

Like everyone says paint the caliper and only the caliper. I have red and they're not flashy or ricey

 

it depends on the quality you do it and how it looks, i think

 

let us know how else we can build your car for you.

 

You could get away with painting calipers but not drums

 

It depends on what they look like now. It might not hurt to just clean them up.

If the drums are rusted/flaking then repainting them black wouldn't be "ricey' at all. Although rusted drums might be a cool trend to match the hoods. HA.

As long as it's not to make them stand out, then cool. It's not like you want to point out that "hey, look at me in my Civic...i have stock brakes, and I painted part of them!"