Black wheels - Grey zed - What colour calipers...

What colours do you fellows think would compliment best? I always have liked the stealth look, which is why I decided to go with black rims on a Grey 300. BUT, there is something about Yellow or White calipers on dark (er) cars which I also really like & they may accent it well. Just to give an idea, I currently sprayed them with a fresh coat (s) of Silver - which is what they were originally, but feel they could look a lot nicer another colour, as the ones mentioned above..? Open to suggestions for sure.

Cheers,
Mike

 

yellow imho

 

I am sort of leaning towards that too at the moment. Yellow with 'Nissan' in White or something.

 

not white....too many colours in it if you do that...make the writing black. or black outline and yellow fill

 

True that, Black writing sounds the go, possibly even Grey now that you mentioned it.

 

yep, try and keep the colours to a minimum. ie. use a max of about 3 colours across the car...too many colours will wreak the 'clean' look. good luck

 

Absolutely, that's an excellent point, it should be made into a rule come to think of it!

Cheers,
Mike

 

Red looks good as a colour highlight.



Cheers,

Peter

 

Second Red. Or Black with white writing.
Not yellow if they are stock imo.

 

Very nice despite how much the Red gets used, it still sets it off well!

Cheers,
Mike

 

RED ALWAYS

 

Hmmm, maybe so then.

 

If it where my car i would paint the calipers the SAME colour as the car and paint the lettering bright red .(looks good if running 18's)
Regards
Trev

 

lmaooooooooo,oh look theres a set of yellow brake calipers coming down the road ,oh its got a 300zx connected to it ,you idiot lol

paint the calipers the same colour as the car and then polish the lettering imo,a nice zed only needs the calipers as an accent,crap zeds need them as a focal point :zlove:
If you want to have them as the main focus,go get brembos,at least that is something worthwhile to show off

 

Pink...

I reckon pink calipers, with brown letters would look SWEET!!! :zlove:

 

vertboy has already got the monopoly on that design jono

 

haha +1 for pink with brown. That would so hot!

 

I think keep it subtle, and definitely limit the colours to 3 max.

I have a grey zed too and was thinking of using blue as a highlight (blue calipers with white writing(?), blue timing covers, throttle cable cover, vacc hoses, etc) I think red looks great too, but personally i prefer blue. One day I'd love to do a full respray in blue (similar colour to benny c or ed300zx) so this would work well with that too.

 

repraying the car to suit the calipers,thats a new one lol

 

Haha LOL i didnt mean that! I was just saying to make an overall plan for what you want with your car. Rather than just doing lots of little mods and changes that don't suit each other. I have already decided that I'd love to do a blue respray one day (when funds permit it), so it wouldn't hurt to do the engine bay (and calipers, etc) with that overall plan in mind.