Admit it, Justin. The crank just looks too pretty to put inside an engine!! :)
Joe(C)
Justin wrote:
>
> I'm curious to hear what Kas has to say about this... I took a crank to my
>shop
> back in the 80's... Bishop and Buehl Engineering... (They were heavy into
> building Formula 1 motors...) And they sent my crank out and had it "ground
> undersized, chromed oversized, ground to standard and polished." Fortune and
> fate has kept that crank from seeing the inside of working motor all these
> years. I've had it in a holding pattern for some future motor. So I can't
> speak of it's performance, but it sure looks pretty.
>
> --Justin Wagner
>
> WEmery7451@aol.com wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 11/3/01 1:40:53 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> > jmwagner@greenheart.com writes:
> >
> > << And plating in Zinc is not nearly as expensive as chrome plating. >>
> >
> > I use to have some of my crankshafts chrome plated in the past. Does anyone
> > have experience with the effects of this process, or will this make the
>crank
> > shafts more brittle?
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