[OAC_Sparky]

Focus man, Focus.,Jul 13 2009, 02:38 PM Wrote:Why wouldn't you just polish the intake and exhaust runners.  If you chrome plate it everything would be chrome.  You would run the risk of the chrome coming off the combustion chambers and damaging the valves or piston rings.  Wouldn't you?  Also you wouldn't get a good sealing surface for the head, intake and exhaust gaskets.
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Yes. I used to build performance engines in my day, you wouldn't do it. Aluminum parts you can't chrome plate anyways, and iron parts run the risk of the plating coming off as the metal corrodes beneath the plating.