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Old 02-04-2012, 08:23 PM
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Mine are red to match my car. I would do them blue with silver brackets if i were you. Silver calipers look like you did nothing to them at all. They're silver stock aren't they?
 
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Old 02-05-2012, 12:03 AM
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Originally Posted by 03JGMonte
Don't paint your calipers red everyone does that
Originally Posted by Lougreen03
Mine are red to match my car. I would do them blue with silver brackets if i were you. Silver calipers look like you did nothing to them at all. They're silver stock aren't they?
I was thinking of painting the calipers red for a few reasons.
1 - Make them pop out (plus that's common for the performance calipers to be red)
2 - My STB I'll be adding is red, my UMI Trailing arms are red, I plan to get my diagonal braces painted red.... It all goes together.

@Lougreen03 I thought of doing the caliper blue and the brackets silver (it would match the Monte's existing paint scheme) but I thought that would be redundant. So, I decided the caliper itself I definitely want red, but the bracket that holds it (I think sometimes called a banjo) is what I'm unsure of. Red or silver/gray for that bracket, I just don't know yet....
 
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Old 02-05-2012, 02:18 AM
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I got this idea from the rytek Monte carlo. Why not do inversed colors on each side. On the drivers side I have red calipers and black brackets, and on the passenger side I have black calipers and red brackets. It's just a tiny detail only I notice and I love it. Maybe you should do something like that in silver/blue.
 
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Old 02-05-2012, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Enzo354
I got this idea from the rytek Monte carlo. Why not do inversed colors on each side. On the drivers side I have red calipers and black brackets, and on the passenger side I have black calipers and red brackets. It's just a tiny detail only I notice and I love it. Maybe you should do something like that in silver/blue.
Interesting idea.. but I don't think I could live with the fact that they don't match lol :p
 
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Old 02-05-2012, 02:53 PM
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Originally Posted by zzapultimate
Interesting idea.. but I don't think I could live with the fact that they don't match lol :p
It's like a tiny secret.
 
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Old 02-05-2012, 11:52 PM
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If I were you I would paint them in a hyper silver color and put blue Monte Carlo decals on them. But that's just me.
 
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