Painted my 2005 Mustang calipers black with the Duplicolor brush on kit. I just sprayed the calipers with a ton of brake cleaner, and brushed on the black paint with the calipers till on the car.

Looked great for 9 years of street driving. Easy touch ups with a black paint pen or even a sharpie.

Just street driving and never got them really hot. I hate hard stops and brake dust.

Not a fan of the green, but hey, it's your car. Green is going to be harder to keep clean than black.

Your car is riding high, even for stock suspension. You must have just took it off the jacks on those pics.

 

Only way to drive these things!

 

You can't paint non BBK brakes. It looks like garbage. You can have the best paint and the most pro finish, but BBKs are one big caliper. The stock brakes have that bracket thingie so it looks like two pieces. It needs to be all one piece like brembos/Wildwood/stoptech etc. Painting stock calipers reminds me of when I see painted drums on the back of an 87 accord.

 

And that is because it is for the best cooling.

 

Regardless..just leave em metal.

 

Metal gets dirty and looks like crap for a while.

WHat's wrong with the paint job on my front brakes? Brake dust wipes right off, and it's no different than bright shiny new aluminum which the calipers already are.

 

painting it silver for fluidity and green to stand out annoys the great G35Driver.

 

Well, silver is different it just looks like clean metal. That's not trying to bring attention to them. I'm talkin about when people paint them red or yellow or blue to try to make them look flashy...but they're just stock brakes. Nothing wrong with stock brakes, just don't make me me turn my head for red stock brakes...what if I strain my neckmeat?

 

I'll massage your neck meat if you massage mine. The money we'll save we can use to paint our break pads

 

where do I buy break pads.

 

Shitttt
after all the "you're" blunders I let you get away with too lol...

 

Your not wrong. Keep you're eyes peeled.

 

I agree that stock brake calipers look crappy. I find painting them black actually helps to "hide" them and brake dust doesn't show as much. I would never paint the stock calipers any color to show them off.

 

I don't like these calipers either and I'll eventually get the Akebono 14" BBK but for now, it made it look a ton better than what they were. As for the rotors, you guys will just have to deal with my Grabber Green hats

 

There's nothing wrong with these brakes at all. 12.6" fronts, 2 piston caliper and a large pad area...it's a good brake setup for street use.

To be quite honest, if you were to take the 03-04 Brembo's, these 12.6" brakes, and the 14" Akebono brakes, and do a 1-time 80-0MPH stop, you'd probably see all 3 stop the car in almost the same distance with the tires being a limiting factor.

Where the big brakes shine is repeated stops when the massive rotors can absorb the heat much better. And of course they look MUCH better.

14" Akebono's are on my wish list when I get my G37x.