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I was thinking about Powder coating my brake calipers for my black cherry 370z, any suggestions on what color would look nice? I was thinking about Gold, something that would

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Old 05-05-2013, 08:14 PM   #1 (permalink)
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I was thinking about Powder coating my brake calipers for my black cherry 370z, any suggestions on what color would look nice? I was thinking about Gold, something that would pop. What you guys think?
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Gold would be cool
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Yellow pops. I have a Gunmetal Z, I'm Getting mine done hyper purple =]
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Yeah. That's what I'm thinking of going with too. Or like a brembo burnt orange.





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Oh nice burnt orange and hyper purple sounds really sick, yep definitely a color that pops and makes it look like the Nissan brakes are their.
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I would go for classy on a black cherry and go color matched.
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I would go for classy on a black cherry and go color matched.
gold would be off since the car isn't black, it's black cherry
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Yea I was thinking of the brembos when he said Gold, but at the same time Depointfive0 made a good point, maybe go with color matched, it would be more subtle
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That's true too, Black Cherry would look subtle. Just trying to make little change before summer time great ideas guys. Thanks for your inputs.
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Hot pink stands out perfectly.
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haha that's a little too much now. I'll probably stick to the original black. Maybe black cherry in the near future
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Mike, how much do you charge and what's the turn around time to do the calipers?
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