Painted calipers on base model? Yay or Nay

Well, I did it anyway, looks good. Watch me spray paint an S on my car.

I always say, your car, do what you want. I think it looks good.

You asked...so no, they look tacky, boy racer. Actually, it's on of a few reasons I can't stomach the Cayman S . They ruin the look of the car except for maybe on White or Silver where they sorta look OK. There is a reason by the GTS offers a $990 option to have them painted in black. good luck.

I disliked the rather drab look of the calipers on the base 987.2 , so I spruced mine up a bit as well. That said, I'm in the "nay" camp for red calipers on anything but an "S" model. Kudos for what you're doing with your channel, BTW. I'm a follower.

That looks really nice, and appropriate in the coolest way. And I don't need red paint to convince me my Base calipers are Brembos , since it is literally cast into them. Not to mention that they are fantastic brakes. Only Porsche would call something like a Base Porsche "Base". It's hilarious when you think about it. Sent from my SM-G988U using Tapatalk

To each their own, I knew I’d find a hater or two hehe. Hey I could have painted them yellow. ;-)

Lol I promise I'm no hater. And I think they'd look awesome yellow! Sent from my SM-G988U using Tapatalk

Painted calipers look good on any performance car in my opinion. Boy racer or not. Your car, do it how you like it.

Not the best angle, but here you go.

TBH, 99% of folks outside of the P-car community wouldn't know that only S's came with red painted calipers. And I've always liked painted calipers on a sports car - I painted my calipers blue on my Sunlight Silver RX-8 way back in the day. And I have the red calipers on my Boxster . . . but it's an S!

Exactly! But it's because of those VERY 1%'ers, and for sure my fellow P-comrades, that I can't paint them red Cuz they KNOW. I'm a "Base" man and they all know it. And I love it. Now, I could paint them ANY other color. Or I could upgrade to S brakes and go red. These are all self imposed boundaries. They don't mean anything except my own personal P-car warped mind. Sent from my SM-G988U using Tapatalk

Paint them any color you want. Otherwise they just look dirty.

Most people in here probably know this, but the yellow painted calipers typically come only on Porsches that have the Brembo brake upgrade, which is ridiculously expensive, like $9k or so just for brakes. So I think that would be a bit silly to try to pull that look off without the real deal. But the red is only a minor infraction ;-) I didn’t even realize the base brakes are also made by Brembo . It’s right there in the caliper, in metal raised lettering.

Post # 5 And I don't need red paint to convince me my Base calipers are Brembos , since it is literally cast into them. [emoji4] Sent from my SM-G988U using Tapatalk

Haha surprised I haven’t gotten any comments about painting an S on the car in the video.

You'll get no real smack from me, although I might taunt or tease for fun. I put the biggest calipers I ever have seen on my F150. And Brembo charges more for those than Porsche does for PCCB . I didn't get a color choice, and so red they are. And although I can't prove that I did it for BRAKING reasons rather than show, I can assure you that the truck could come to a hault with the RV in tow like nobody's business.

When I upgraded my departed 2007 Cayman with the larger "S" brakes, I actually painted the calipers black so that they would look factory stock. I prefer the subtler look of the factory black calipers and instrument panel gauge faces on the Cayman . Also, Porsche never used the term "base". It's properly called Cayman , Cayman S , Cayman R, etc. And, the original 2016 GT4 was called just that, not Cayman GT4 . Just thought I'd point that out for the record... Sent from my SM-N910V using Tapatalk

I didn't know that. I will never call my Boxster a Base again. I simply have a Porsche . Boxster , that is. Sent from my SM-G988U using Tapatalk

I realize I'm awakening an old thread - but some items: 1 - You can't cover too much when painting. I'm willing to bet that the car after the calipers were painted really needed a clay job to get the paint dust off it. BTDT. I cover most of the car with an old car cover and just tape it up out of the way in the area I'm painting. 2 - There is a fine line between too much paint and not enough paint per coat. I think the OP found he was on either side of that line at times. I would have gone a bit heavier per coat, but I do have to agree - it's a tough thing to find out. Pro painters use a long sweeping motion of light coats - multiple times over the same area. The time doing the sweep gives the last coat time to slightly set so it won't drool when the next coat comes along. This is just a practice sort of thing. 3 - The Porsche decals - if they're like all the ones I've used - they are used on top of the last color coat, and pressed on really firmly then the plastic backing is pulled off leaving just the letters attached to the caliper. The clear coats are then applied and that protects the decal lettering from damage from washing and such. The first time those calipers are hit with a high-pressure spray at a car-wash (DIY type) - the decals are likely to come off. Separating the letter/backing is also something that would be good to practice before doing the finished product. 4 - Red vs black - the calipers are the same size/dimensions. The front rotor is very slightly thicker on the cars with S brakes. Aftermarket rotors are all pretty much the same thickness (at least if they have the same PN..) Red vs Black? I guess mine are going to be red. Since I've already destroyed it's purity by doing some "design edition" mods to it (body-color painted console, painted interior trim, came with painted roll-hoops, sport-paddle PDK steering wheel , dual-tips on the exhaust ) I expect it will just leave people wondering exactly what it is. I don't really care - I like it - and everything I've done to it ( next up is the Suncoast Porsche /Euromotorspeed storage bin speaker kit...) is for my enjoyment not someone elses.

Old thread but painting my base brakes yellow. It’s my favorite color and will look great against agate gray and silver or black wheels. The stock calipers just look dirty. I am no purist and have no S envy. I am clearly in the base camp for a street driven car. Plus I have painted my subie calipers multiple colors and have gotten many compliments over the years, even for single piston stock brakes. Looking at grey dirty brakes just sucks.

Your car, your call. [emoji6]. I’m in for pics when your done. Shawn in VA (USA)

Came out ok. What do you think.

Two-tone. Didn’t see that coming. Nice verk. Shawn in VA (USA)

Yeah I think most paint over and then do a decal. I figured let me do something a little different. Por-15 yellow.

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I’m not a huge fan of yellow but they look good. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

They will look better when I get some black wheels. Wheels for this car are so expensive so maybe next year when I get a bonus.

I’m sure the black will really make the yellow pop. I just have the plain boring red calipers on my grey Cayman s. I got a hell of a deal on a used set of calipers and am thinking about doing them in a bright green. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

I say do it. The nice thing is if you don’t love it you can just paint them black. Not much downside except effort. Maybe more paint can effect heat but I doubt it would have any effect for street driving.

I probably will do it in the next few weeks. I already tore them down to rebuild them while I’m at it. I already prepped them to be powder coated. Just waiting on the powder coat to come in. I will post some pictures when I have them finished. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Mine are not red anymore because of all of the track days, they are now pinkish.

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I’ve never seen calipers painted blue but it looks really good with the silver paint. Nice job. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Thanks. I wanted something different.