Miata Mailing List: June 1997, Message #133
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From: 	D <meatmobile@mail.utexas.edu>

Subject: painting things

Date: 	Mon, 2 Jun 1997 15:58:57 -0500



From: eschwar1@ix.netcom.com (Eric Schwarzentraub)

Subject: Re: yellow brake calipers?

Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 02:24:09 -0500



Pete  wrote:

>

>Hey everybody!!!!

>

><snip>

> what was really neat though are the yellow brake calipers, behind the

>silver wheels, underneath a silver body, and this got me thinking.

>I had considered silver paint on the calipers, but now yellow seems

>really neat.



> Has anyone seen any yellow high-temp paint?      I have checked

>Advance Autoparts here in NC, and they had other colors, like red,

>silver, black, and blue, but I don't recall any yellow!

>





 >  I thought the exact same thing.  There is a German company that

sells brake "paint" (checkout speciality auto mags. towards the back).

Although, it would seem that any high temp. paint in yellow would work.

Along the lines of highlighting small components with paint, I recently

thought of (won't do it though, truth be told) painting the mirrors red

or yellow, ala the Mercedez CLK-SLR or the Silver Arrows (F1).  Keep in

mind, this is all on a silver car, so it would have contrast.



Eric Schwarzentraub

'91 Silver





	If I had a silver Miata, I would paint it up like a fighter jet--

you know, either paint the shark's mouth around the car's or go with a

picture of a Vargas girl on the side after the wheel. Then for the rear, if

you have a spoiler that could be painted black, or a star decal on the

fender. You pilots out there can help me with this one; I think there are

call numbers along the rear quarter panel or along the top of the body near

the cockpit, either way, you could substitute them with the VIN number.

After that I'd get a Tonneau cover, a style bar over the driver seat and a

glass arched cover  to finish off the cockpit. Either that or stick with

the paint scheme, get a rotory motor and run the fan blades through the

mouth. Speaking of which, has anyone ever tried to swap a rotory into one

of these? Someone said the the spindle of an 84 X-7 would fit  if you

didn't have a clutch alignment tool which led me to believe the rest of it

would fit.