Some of these replies confuse the hell out of me, although nothing new. Granted a 8 1/4 is not the highest performance rear end I dont understand the chrome hate. Its 2019 and its hard to find chrome parts and its costly to have things chromed.
So are chrome bumpers a bad thing? Id hate to think I just spent $1300 and 8 months to have a pair rechromed when I could of painted them black for $30 and got all the props involved with painted bumpers, not.
My fastest car has a chrome cover on the S60, am I fuckin up there? Actually it was cheaper then an oem steel that would of needed paint.
Yes, way back people would put chrome on most anything but 90% of the ad on-s back then were chrome, ya wanted a aftermarket air cleaner, most were chrome, wanted after market valve covers, poof 90% were chrome. Wanted a cool fuel filter, it was chrome.
To me all the modern aluminum offering dont look right because what did people put on there car, chrome. Ummmm so if one uses aluminum it must be ok, who paints aluminum heads, or an aluminum intake? Well no one, that would be silly and look too stock but every car with al heads and al intake is not a speed demon.
Keep a stock underhood and people bitch, Ahhhh "They all look the same" Boring.
So what are our choices?
Stock? Everything looks alike, socialist engine bays?
Aluminum add ons? Most of which we didnt have way back.
The SEMA Chip Foose look? )Everyone loves that, right?
Lets hammer every car thats got coated flashy headers, no matter how practical they are, we should be using flat black steel. One could make a long long list of things people do to a car that dont make it faster but many do it.
Im not really grumpy over the chrome comments, its just the first ive heard of chrome bashing in a while. Why cant people just be happy our old cars are around?
I never judged a cars potential or lack of it by how it looked good or bad flashy or not, I looked at two things, the rear tires and secondary the exhaust system as good indicators on what a car would really do.
I messed up again last week and bought a chrome oil pan because it was $40 cheaper then an oem steel unit.