Re: Chrome Engine Tins

[Toby Erkson <Toby_Erkson@ccm.intel.com>]

I wouldn't recommend chrome for any of the cooling system parts (this 
includes the valve covers).  Granted, it does look nice, however, chrome is 
detrimental to the engine's cooling abilities.  If you have a stock engine 
it could possibly be lenient to allow chrome on the engine but if the 
engine is bigger than stock I really don't recommend it -- keep the engine 
as black and as dull (non-shiny) as the way it was engineered to help keep 
it cool.  As for the fan shroud that could be more permissible.

Call the various popular VW parts suppliers and specify Type III (in fact, 
overemphasize! since they never seem to listen).

By the way, keeping all that chrome clean is a pain! :)
     Toby Erkson, air_cooled_nut@pobox.com
     '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L
     '75 Porsche 914 1.8L
     Portland, Oregon, http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8501/


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Subject: Chrome Engine Tins
Author:  type-3-errors@umich.edu at SMTPGATE_MIME
Date:    12/19/97 12:20 AM

...anyone know where to get
chrome engine tins for TIII??  I'm gathering parts to build another
engine and kinda wnated to chrome it out.  How about the Fan shroud??  I
was planning on sending everything out to be chromed, but as a rule, you
can get it cheaper if you buy it that way.