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Can you micropolish too finely?

When Porsche built these cars in the 1980's, cranks weren't micropolished...

Now, its common place...

I am sure that engine builders can polish journals to an absolute mirror finish, but, they don't.

Is that due to a cost or technique issue? Or, is it simply that a less than perfectly polished journal holds oil better?

There are high end engine builders on youtube that polish the journals to a mirror finish with buffing compounds.

Yet, most don't...

Why?

No benefit to doing it? Harm to doing it?
Old 10-18-2017, 05:19 AM
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