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Old May 23, 2010 | 08:48 PM
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Caliper Covers

I have the G37xS,and was thinking of buying colored caliper covers to spruce up the wheels.The 19" Coupe have beautiful calipers,while we are stuck with butt ugly versions.
Has anyone purchased and installed aftermarket covers?
Where do you recommend buying them,and what is the cost?

Pics would be great,
thanks to all...
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Old May 23, 2010 | 09:00 PM
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just buy a BBK , or buy someone's coupe OEM
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Old May 23, 2010 | 09:13 PM
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Old May 23, 2010 | 09:15 PM
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Please dont. Thats horrible.

If you cant afford a BBK, just paint your oem calipers and thats it.
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Old May 23, 2010 | 09:21 PM
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^^^agree.
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Old May 23, 2010 | 09:22 PM
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haha good one nogood!

Stoof - he can't paint the OEM one's cause he has the paperclip calipers. that's the point of his question lol
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Old May 23, 2010 | 09:22 PM
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they might fall off and get stuck inbetween your wheels while driving.
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Old May 24, 2010 | 12:39 AM
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Originally Posted by da mayor
they might fall off and get stuck inbetween your wheels while driving.
They don't get bolted on or something?

If there's no covers on them to begin with, (i.e. just bare brakes like what's under the yellow cover in the pic above) I don't see why this is such a bad idea. Especially since they'd probably be less than 10% the price of a bbk.
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Old May 24, 2010 | 01:05 AM
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Don't embarrass this community please.
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Don't embarrass this community please.
Serious. Its a G not a honda civic...
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Originally Posted by SM_Shadowman
They don't get bolted on or something?

If there's no covers on them to begin with, (i.e. just bare brakes like what's under the yellow cover in the pic above) I don't see why this is such a bad idea. Especially since they'd probably be less than 10% the price of a bbk.
Caliper covers are for posers. Rather than any sort of pure performance, they represent the kind of fakery that is particularly distasteful. Better to use the OEM Infiniti calipers (unpainted, please) than this sort of crappy imagry.
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it's like putting an m3 badge on a 328i
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Old May 24, 2010 | 02:57 AM
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Originally Posted by xlack
it's like putting an m3 badge on a 328i
Or a batman badge on a G37.
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Originally Posted by G hits the spot
I have the G37xS,and was thinking of buying colored caliper covers to spruce up the wheels.The 19" Coupe have beautiful calipers,while we are stuck with butt ugly versions.
Has anyone purchased and installed aftermarket covers?
Where do you recommend buying them,and what is the cost?

Pics would be great,
thanks to all...
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Old May 24, 2010 | 08:59 PM
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I didn't mean to invoke a face palm...we do have a touchy forum I see.
If you try the web site calipercovers.com,they have a video that actually shows these reduce the temperature of the calipers after severe brake use.(30 to 50 degrees average)

So one could make an argument that they are performance enhancers?

Still say Infinite could have done a nicer job on the aesthetics of the calipers,considering the Sport 19" are classy.
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