Did some accent painting

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NL74

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With the weather getting warmer, I decided to do some accent painting. Painted my calipers and rear sway bar. Used VHT flame proof primer and VHT caliper paint. Very happy with the results and how close the color is to RAM blue.
I already have a full set of PowerStop drilled/slotted rotors and pads that I will install in the next couple of weeks. Just wanted to get the calipers painted first. I already had the rear axle and frame, along with most of the underside already painted with VHT epoxy paint. It has been holding up very well, and still looks much better than the factory. So looking at the sway bar, I figured I would paint it blue to make it stand out. And I personally think it looks great. Much better than everything black underneath.

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MartyZ

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Very Clean, Nice work Man. Did you remove your sway bar to paint it or just go Masking Tape Crazy?
 

Simpleman

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With the weather getting warmer, I decided to do some accent painting. Painted my calipers and rear sway bar. Used VHT flame proof primer and VHT caliper paint. Very happy with the results and how close the color is to RAM blue.
I already have a full set of PowerStop drilled/slotted rotors and pads that I will install in the next couple of weeks. Just wanted to get the calipers painted first. I already had the rear axle and frame, along with most of the underside already painted with VHT epoxy paint. It has been holding up very well, and still looks much better than the factory. So looking at the sway bar, I figured I would paint it blue to make it stand out. And I personally think it looks great. Much better than everything black underneath.

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Nice job I was thinking of painting my calipers that same color it looks like mopar blue
 

2012RAM1500RT

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Nice looking truck! That goes good with the wheels and chrome you have on the truck. Really like that color blue!
 

VelocityC6Z

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For sure, I'm doing a sort of build thread around here... just have a bunch of touch up things to do still. I'll never be happy lol
 

Treburkulosis

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Looks great! Barebones does a real nice job of turning faded black under the truck back black. I did my truck and it looks great!
 
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