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Old 06-20-2007, 02:55 AM
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Default Yellow GT3 /w black wheels, yellow lip

Photoshoped the yellow lip to see how it would look. Also change the PCCB to red for my steel disks. Thoughts?
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Old 06-20-2007, 03:11 AM
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I think that car gives me a chubby, it's so trick.

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The PCCB should be left yellow

In fact, I'd love to have yellow calipers for standard brakes on yellow GT3.
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Meant to say that the PCCB in the above pic was converted to standard red since I did not order PCCB and wanted to see what it looked like in contrasting color. I called the dealer to see if there was an option to have the standard brakes painted yellow. Answer was no 8(
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I'd stick with the silver lip. NSX, I haven't had my car out in a while (rain, travel) but should be able to get some pics this weekend.
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Originally Posted by frayed
I'd stick with the silver lip. NSX, I haven't had my car out in a while (rain, travel) but should be able to get some pics this weekend.
i have a SY gt3 and am thinking of getting black rims with the yellow lip

i think it looks totally kick ***

where would a good place to do it be?
(in socal)
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I'm definitely leaning towards the black rims/yellow lip. Where are you in socal? I'll ask my local dealer where they usually get theirs done. The tricky thing is trying to match the speed yellow on the lip. They may have to do a custom mix? How does one match color for power coating?
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Looks amazing, although some will say your a poseur for changing calipers yellow, i would change them too. Red on yellow is not appealing!
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I still have time to order the PCCBs. But man, that's 8K. It'll be a lot cheaper to get them PC yellow afterwards. My cheap side likes the contrasting red. 8)
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Originally Posted by NSXTC
Meant to say that the PCCB in the above pic was converted to standard red since I did not order PCCB and wanted to see what it looked like in contrasting color. I called the dealer to see if there was an option to have the standard brakes painted yellow. Answer was no 8(
A good SoCal Tuner can paint your calipers to match the body color for around $800 with matching black Porsche logo on calipers.

Check out this post as well:

GT3 RS Green Brembo Brakes
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Originally Posted by RMN22AJR
A good SoCal Tuner can paint your calipers to match the body color for around $800 with matching black Porsche logo on calipers.

Check out this post as well:

GT3 RS Green Brembo Brakes
Thanks for the heads up. This is 10x cheaper than the PCCB route. I don't need the carbon disks for my purposes (mostly street) giving the potential problems/maintenance on them (chipped rotors, difficult in heal-toe, etc...)

FYI. Here's the link to the above mentioned...

https://rennlist.com/forums/showthre...+Brembo+Brakes

BTW, do you know of a socal tuner? I guess I can also remove the calipers and ship out to anyone that's capable of doing this.
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I like how porsche sticks with their brake caliper colors: black base car brakes; red for turbo and S models; yellow for PCCB. I would leave them; but i would not think you are a pouser for painting them. Because only a true Porsche enthusiast knows what the colors mean anyway, and you cannot fool them when they take a closer look and do not see the correct rotors with your yellow calipers.

Do it if you like it.

btw, the lip looks gold, not yellow to me. still looks nice.
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Originally Posted by 340Elise
btw, the lip looks gold, not yellow to me. still looks nice.

Man, some people are hard to please ...Here's a pic with YELLOW lip and yellow calipers
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Originally Posted by NSXTC
Thanks for the heads up. This is 10x cheaper than the PCCB route. I don't need the carbon disks for my purposes (mostly street) giving the potential problems/maintenance on them (chipped rotors, difficult in heal-toe, etc...)

FYI. Here's the link to the above mentioned...

https://rennlist.com/forums/showthre...+Brembo+Brakes

BTW, do you know of a socal tuner? I guess I can also remove the calipers and ship out to anyone that's capable of doing this.
I don't have a SoCal contact, but I am sure a qualified person exists. If you want to remove your calipers my Tuner Chris @ C2 in Tampa, FL will paint, and put on the Porsche logo for about $600. His number is 813.223.3744 - he paints Porsche, Mercedes and BMW calipers regularly.
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How do you powder coat two colors? Do you bake the first color and tape and bake the second color? I would think the second bake would ruin the already baked color of the first. Can someone point to a shop that can do this?

I'll definitely call Chris for the calipers.

Thanks.


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