![]() It doesn’t talk about how many times some of the electrostatically applied surfaces like copper and nickel are added by dipping before the chrome is added. It does not address the many cleaning and other prep work including hand working/removing the pits and other undesirable surface Ooo-ooo’s. This video gives some of the basics but does not cover it in depth. If your engine is not out in the open to look at e.g., hidden behind other things… ! Most chrome has a protective coating added to it now days. Good quality chrome e.g., triple chroming will clean up quite nice but will also spot easy and the spots can bake on and be hard to remove. It is the same with radiated heat from the engine, it can get hot under the hood. You guys from the sunny area all know that later in the day you don’t touch chrome w/o pulling your paws away quite quickly but touching painted surfaces is not quite as painful… even a while after it has got dark out. tting.html) and you cannot easily update it at home without sanding a tooth to it for paint to stick to. There are some very clean chrome shops around (and we are talking about the out gassing and other things here) now days but you have to search them out and I am sure because of all the extra's they have to charge more. Triple chrome (aka chrome/nickel) is expensive and the chroming process is environmentally "dirty" which is why many years ago so many chrome shops closed. One thing to be said against chrome is that it is not as good as it used to be. Might help you as well in some aspect of your Buggin' Life. In my case it will be a selling point and will give them the impression I know my Chit. I plan on engaging buyers with the thought that "chrome tins suck" as well though. ![]() they'll be sold to finance another project or two. Both will be pretty simple, black tins and all. All of the stuff I had is gone with only 2 projects left. I've had about 6 daily driver Bugs, and numerous other project bugs and such. but not full sets so I don't know first hand if it was an issue or not. Thus the engines just didn't last forever. so they flogged the snot out of the engines as well. Generally speaking, most people I have known that have done the "dress up" stuff to their engines, also believed it made their engines tougher/Stronger (It's an upgrade, ya know?). I've known a lot of folks that had chrome engine tins and their engines lasted fairly well. but it certainly is a disadvantage between two otherwise identical engines. That close enough to an answer? chrome in general can't be said to be "BAAAAD" for anything much. BritegreenVWSB wrote:Isn't it true that chrome fan shrouds/cylinder tins on an air-cooled VW are BAAAAD for cooling?Ĭhrome is known to "hold" heat, where the factory Black radiates heat.
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