I brushed on chemical stripper to remove the powdercoat, cleaned it up with brake clean, wax and grease remover and then sprayed the yellow high heat caliper paint. Next I'm gonna use my mask i cut to spray the Akebono logo and then clear coat over the whole thing. Should turn out really nice and glossy.

i'm going to try another one without removing the powdercoat - i'll just scuff it up and see how it sprays. Removing it is a massive pain in the ***.

 

Appreciate you posting your trials. I just picked up a set myself so this is helpful.

 

Feeling like iCrap's project should be its own thread.

Make it happen, buddy. Drop a link here when you're ready.

 

was yellow the only color choice?

 

They come red (scroll up to see mine as well as others), he wanted yellow.

 

 

I'll make a whole thread then yea. I'll take some more pics when I do the other calipers as well.

Well they came in red.. but, I put it next to my car and it just didn't look right against blue slate. So I settled on yellow after looking at a bunch of pictures / asking on here / asking people for opinions.

 

Yellow on that blue is going to pop. The red with the slate blue would look odd.

My car is white so the red wouldn't look that bad but I am thinking of going with a color that isn't as..loud.

 

Yeah my car is Graphite Shadow, pretty sure Nismo already does grey with red on a lot of their cars.

 

Got two wheels/tires installed. Moved the rear oem wheels to the front. Fedex lost the other two tires so ill pretend to be a drifter for a couple days.
with the snow storm approaching and my oem front wheels having bald tires; I needed to get some tread on the fronts.

 

 

Picked up a set of coupe 19"s from a forum member. Any feedback on kumho Ecsta PA51s? Going to do 245 fronts 275 rears.

The pile of parts to go on the car is filling up my garage. Now for the time to do anything with it all...

 

 

I ordered about $4500 worth of stuff today, probably bit off more than I can even chew at this point. I have a lot of work ahead of me to make some money back to actually finish this build. This weather is unbearable, DO NOT move north unless you have a nice garage!

 

Did you paint the insides of your headlights too? That's pretty much the look I'm going for except for the foglight trim rings.