Jon - I think I got into my cadmium plating fetish by looking at pictures of Henry's engines on the internet. The fan on the 2.4 above was refinished by him, actually - he drills out the rivets, plates the center, and bolts the center back to the fan. Everything else golden in the pic was plated in bulk at my local plater.
The engine that is 'vertical' in the pic is a mostly stock 2.7S. Mods are minor and include backdated exhaust, 11 blade fan, and a couple other minor standard cooling mods. I liked the artsy angle of the shot with the engine on the stand in front of the engine on the dolly - but mostly I wanted to show off the cad-plated sump plate. That's the last time it is going to be seen
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