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What engine parts are chrome?
Oddjob:
Sometimes it's nice to paint them a different colour to the engine for a contrast. I've had them chromed in the past, there are some chrome ones available (tappet covers) on Ebay.
Engine casings, your choice, polished, chromed or satin silver or even satin black for contrast. My last engine I did I had every part that bolted to another part a different colour, either silver or black, so if the crankcases were silver the barrels were black, the head was silver and the camcover black with the breather cover silver etc. It sounds a bit OTT but in fact it looks very nice.
alexdecker:
Thanks for those responses!
Wondering - the exhaust flanges and collars - were they chrome originally? Mine are pretty rusted, and instead of buying new ones, I could paint them. But if they are originally chromed, I might go with that look instead…
Sesman:
That’s a nice looking, clean paint job Alex. Which paint did you settle on?
Bryanj:
Exhaust flanges chrome, collets not
Oddjob:
Yes the exhaust flanges were chrome, however they are very roughly cast using a sand mould by the look of them. If you attempt to get them rechromed it won’t last long as the surface is too rough to accept it and only really the edges of the fins and the parts around the stud holes come out any good. They tend to rust like hell at the bottom of the fins after even a very short time.
Been there, done that, learnt the lesson.
I have a thread in the project corner section called 30 years of storage later, check out page 2 and you’ll see what I did to get round this problem.
The collared were zinc plated, due to the very high temps they are subjected too painting, even using VHT paint, doesn’t tend to last. I also did the collars in the same way as the flanges, almost ready to take them to get done, one set of flanges will be chromed, one set will be done by another process and all the collars will also get this process. If you can wait a few weeks you’ll see the results.
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