I wanted my caliper brackets to be that gold cad color and I didnt want to spend the money to replate them or get that eastwood kit to replicate it so I decided to make my own experiment. The Pictures dont look as good as it does in person and you dont get as much color change either. What do you guys think? I think they look pretty good for cheap rattle cans.

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Click on these links since the pictures wont load

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/9/web/513000-513999/513229_84_full.jpg

http://memimage.cardomain.net/member_images/9/web/513000-513999/513229_85_full.jpg

http://www.cardomain.com/id/3115ultima

More Input please!!

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I edited it to links instead of pictures

Well what do you guys think?

looks pretty good!
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Looks like cadmium plating to me.

I was looking for this kind of stuff awhile back for my booster and MC lid, but couldn't find anything so I just painted them with regular paint.

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jeeze these things just dont want to work, I guess just go the last link and scroll all the way down on my page and then up just a bit, until you see the gold brackets. I will try to update my site soon so you can see them behind the wheels.

I finally saw them, looks nice.

What did you do/use?

BTW, I noticed you said you are going to paint your car green, but your username would indicate otherwise. Do you have more than 1?

danny, what did you use to paint these brackets, they do look good, I am in the same situation as you were in,,,budget minded, and do not what to spend$$$ for plating,thanks dave,,,,

Well I went to auto zone and bought "Dupli-Color MetalCast"
I bought the Silver "Ground Coat", The Yellow Color, The Red Color, and the Green color.
All this was around $20 bucks so it wasnt bad.
My parts were sandblasted so I took some cleaner and wiped them down and let them set for an hour or so then sprayed the Ground Coat and let it dry.
Then I sprayed the Yellow Color and let it dry
Then I got both Red and Green Colors stood like 2 feet away from the part and light dusted each part with the Red and Green randomly and keep working with it until it looked even and the way I wanted it

Originally posted by webfoot:

BTW, I noticed you said you are going to paint your car green, but your username would indicate otherwise. Do you have more than 1? Haha, I knew that would come up one of these days. My favorite color was blue and I was looking for a chevelle when I made this name. I found one and it wasnt blue and its going to be green so im stuck with this name.

Well I changed my whole website so now you guys will have to go the second page on my site and look at them there or you can just click this link

http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/513229/2

Thanks
Need Some more Input on what you guys think!!

Just updated the site agian and have new pictures of them installed on the car with the calipers and brake stuff installed. Take a look!!

http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/513229/2

looks nice

I was gonna plate mine but i said... no will will ever see these.. so i painted them black

your car is gonna look just like mine