Chrome plating kit anyone?

[Adollarwodbnice]

OK, so yesterday I thought to myself wouldn't it be cool if I didnt have to pay someone else to shine up my engine bay. Then I thought tomyself maybe I should try to do it on my own.

I read a decent amount of info on a site that sells tons of different electroplating kits. It seems fairly straight forward and not too expensive. Still gotta look into it more but is anyone interested in going halves on a decent kit? We could make all our stuff shiney isn't that the goal?! Seriously though if any 3snjers are interested in going halves on a nice kit or something let me know we can talk about it. If not i'll prob end up getting one for myself eventually.

[3kgtrider]

hey man, i have thought about this in teh past but i always thought that there was some hard to get chemicals? maybe im wrong. if you can find a decent kit, or at least get all the stuff needed for a reasonable price, id DEFINITELY be involved. im INFATUATED with chrome man. haha

[Adollarwodbnice]

haha sweet..., where are you located... don't think i've ever seen you on here?

I've been reading a couple things and there's some videos on how to do it on this website the cheapest kit is like 600 bucks and requires special shipping so it's not gonna be cheap so i'm still trying to find a cheaper alternative. Not looking for something huge I mean the largest thing i'm gonna want chromed will be the valve cover and intake plenum.

I figure if someone split a kit with me for 150 like a 300 kit it'd be cheaper than sending everything out to be polished by 3sx or wherever.

There's some that are cheaper and really cheap but we just need to make sure it's actually going to work for our parts.

[activeSeven]

Originally Posted by Adollarwodbnice

I mean the largest thing i'm gonna want chromed will be the valve cover and intake plenum.

Just polish them......I wouldn't recommend you chrome them.

[Adollarwodbnice]

Why? Wouldn't it be much better looking and last longer instead of staining?

[defgh1]

I think you are greatly underestimating the time and effort to do a quality chrome plating. It is very labor intensive and the purchase, use and disposal of the caustic chemicals required is more than most people want to deal with!

Doug H

[Adollarwodbnice]

I'm not just gonna go get something because I can which is why i'm trying to find out a bit more about it. I had thought about having everything permastared which is NOT cheap but looks insane. Then I thought maybe I could just polish it on my own. It's a bitch just to polish some of the parts but I figure if i'm gonna take the time to make it look good I wanna make it look REAL good.

Didn't mean to make it seem like i'm just gonna go out and get it and do it in a day but if anyone knows more about it please do tell.

[3kgtrider]

im from red bank/tinton falls, nj. ive been on the board and had a 3kgt for 3 years but i just noticed the nj section.


but yea, 150 for a kit to do it all myself would be amazing.

[Jancas02]

interesting...I was planning on just painting but polish or chrome looks nice.BTW is there a certain brand polishing kit you guys are using?

[Adollarwodbnice]

Originally Posted by Jancas02

interesting...I was planning on just painting but polish or chrome looks nice.BTW is there a certain brand polishing kit you guys are using?

What most people do is sand it up like crazy..., takes forever but looks good. Only problem is I know after a while it will stain. I think you can put maybe some kind of clear coat on it afterwards but i'd personally rather have it chromed...

John, did you ever send anything out to get polished I remember you got like a free polish job from somewhere at ECG.