Black all the way, red calipers are so over played.

Black will not scream out at you like red will, but it looks great when someone is really looking at the detail of your car. I painted my calipers black on my Brilliant Black 8, as well as the inside of the rotor. it looks like the rotor is floating, and really gives it a nice suttle clean look to it.

Good luck with the decision

 

Black Black Black

For our OEM calipers, black is so much cleaner than red.

 

Red only if you have a BBK that came that way. For stock...go black or a cast silver color to restore it back to factory minus the rust.

 

Here are some pics of my 05 Brilliant Black. Hope it helps

 

i vote pink .. umm yeah ... no not really lol stencil on Rx-8 with red paint. done and done

 

After seeing many 8's with painted calipers, I have come to the conclusion that the 8 has ugly stock calipers and if you paint them it should be a colour that doesn't stand out.

 

^^^
+1

...so I voted for black.

 

how about copper? lol jk. i'd preferably go gloss black on yours.

 

According to this poll, red was the winner. Since I was kind of leaning towars red as well, I bought a red caliper paint kit. I saw the DupliColor kit at Pep Boys so I decided to give it a try; I was going to go with G2 initially. The DupliColor kit is less expensive than a similar G2 kit. I hope the quality is gonna be similar as well.

Anyway, I'm gonna try to find some time to paint the calipers soon. The kit's been sitting in my room for the past two weeks...Pics will follow once I'm done.

 

i would do red red looks good on almost everything

 

yellow would have looked fine if you had all black interior or even the black and gray. but since you have red interior get red!





ps. 16's FTL

 

Black is absolutely worth the effort. The dirty gray-ish rusty color of the OEM is farkin awful. Black to look clean but subtle, red to stand out - like everyone else.

So you've already picked red. Cool. Honestly ANY color will look cleaner than stock gray.

NOW - Go back to the store, get black (or silver/gray) paint and DO THE ROTOR HUBS when you do the calipers. They may not be rusty now, but inside a year or 2 (depending on your location - I didn't think to check) you will wish you painted the hubs.

trust me, cuz right now I'm drooling jealously over 987hys' hubs.

 

And FYI those looking for caliper stickers....
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I have black with MAZDASPEED polak decals... great looking if you ask me and I have ss

 

I have a TiG. I'm thinking of picking up the G2 Safety Orange brush on kit? Touring Interior could be replaced with Black/Orange Katskinz... Thoughts?

 

No one has said blue... i think blue would be a good color

 

I agree...

 

I did mine in blue 2 weeks ago.

 

No one said anything about green. It matches allright with black, and it's complementary to red.

 

Did mine in silver.

Bob

 

Damn that is some shiny bling action! Looks good.

 

Thanks. They usually don't look that shiny. They have red in the spokes that you really can't see in the photos. Here is an old one (before I got the new rotors) that shows the red.

Bob

 

silver

 

Very nice! I wish I had the $$$ to go that route.