Hey so I just got new wheels that could potentially show off the brakes. Although I have the stock brakes on the car. Any recommendations for painting the brakes or getting new brakes. I am a college student so lets just say I don't exactly have a gazillion dollars. Any ideas would be great.

 

For painting either G2 http://www.g2usa.com/ or Dupli-Color http://www.duplicolor.com/products/caliper.html will do the job for you.

 

https://www.northamericanmotoring.co...hlight=painted

Still holding up well after a year. Some small chips I touch up with nail polish.

 

 

Lol

 

nice brembo logo ! haha where did you ever find one that's that heat resistant !! ?

 

Good old eBay

 

brembo?? why didn't you get one that said mini, or something a little more realistic?

 

hey what rotors are those by the way ?? Brembo ?

 

I wont paint my 2004 calipers as I dont want to bring attention to my puny brakes behind my 18" OZ's. I'll wait until I have a bigger brakes up front at least. Seems like a cheap BBK alternative is to pick up R56 OEM brakes that an R56 owner has taken off to get even bigger brakes. Apparently the R56 brakes are same as the R53 JCW without the red paint, that you can easily add, and you need to get R56 brake lines too, to make the switch.

 

oops forgot i was in the 2nd gen forums - well you're all lucky you dont have the puny gen 1 brakes

 

Are those the covers that you get and glue on? I saw those and wondered

 

Lol....nothing like fake ebay brembos Classy.

 

Did you paint the holes on the rotor, too?

 

Bright Red, Cherry I believe, Rustoleum. Will last a year. Inexpensive spray paint at any hardware store. Just take your wheels off and spray.

 

I used the G2 kit and it worked well...looks much better with red calipers.