Paint calipers chrome?

 

you can't "paint" chrome on your car.

chrome is a plating process.

so no, no one has EVER painted chrome on their calipers.

 

As far as I know they don't have a chrome colored caliper paint. Dipping them in chrome sounds very unlikely and would only make them heavier. Just get chromed rims and you'll be happy, too much chrome looks tacky. I've seen our stock rims chromed and that seemed too much.

 

ive seen silver. but not chrome

 

Not for TC but it was done for almost every single car type out there. Not many do it because it is a _____ to clean.

 

I would be near impossible to keep or even clean them period... not a good idear for a non show car.

 

i've seen chrome paint in a spraycan. it was decent, but it doesn't have the reflectivity of real chrome, it was kinda like a shiny silver.

 

"Chrome" Coke can = SEXAY!

 

man u are one technical guy

 

yea dude...i had them on my 86 vw gti...it was bmw anthracite grey...really dark and metallic...i painted the calipers chrome like that and it looked hott....looked like they were brand new...i had to get the red and orange paint off of them first tho because this car was ghetto before i got it...do it...esp if you have silver or chrome wheels...it might look weird with the gunmetal stock wheels tho...but definitely dont throw the idea out...chrome calipers are cool as hell

 

Its called ghetto chrome, you know all the mexicans have it.

 

LMAO

 

only go chrome if you are sellin da rock!

 

chrome calipers have been done before, but i don't think on a tC.

 

doesn't really look like chrome just a slightly shinny silver.

 

Wilwood has it avaiable, don't know if the application will fit a tC.

http://www.magnumforceracing.com/wil...s_dynalite.asp

Seems common on motorcycles as well...

 

Painting them chrome - I used to do that to the wheels of my 83 Dodge Rampage when I was a kid. That kind of paint on calipers wouldn't last - gets hot - and would come off in 1 carwash

 

lets back up a second here.... you called painted calipers ghetto..... but you thought chorme looked hot?

 

there is a chrome paint out now

 

Actually,

The 1918 U12 was the first car in history to have chrome painted brake calipers.
http://homefree.sensewave.com/~s0135.../Ley%20U12.JPG
Unfortunately before there were photographs it was really difficult to show chrome.

Chrome exhaust tips followed shortly after with the 1919 37-B.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/tracer-bullets/car.html

"There was nothing like riding up and having them notice the chrome exaust tip" "thy carrage must do an extra 40 furlongs per hour was proclaimed quite often" says Montgomery McMillian, 97.

uhh, I think I need to go home now... ;)