Hope these slow the PACE??

[Paintwerks]

Originally Posted by Modena

These calipers all look awesome, but it looks like you have smacked the paint straight over the top of the whole thing - crossover pipe and all - do you not disassemble them and strip them down first?

Thanks, glad you like them.

We do media blast the caliper to remove the existing coating. But unless the customer specifically requests the caliper halves be split, we leave them alone, and that's what we recommend to them. We were told by Subaru that if you split the halves, it affects the seals.

HSV and Porsche also paint their calipers joined with the bolts torqued, as do other well known caliper refinishers such as PowerStation

For an example, I refer you to this 2014 Porsche GT3 factory caliper: