| The picture on the left is the throttle tower capstan base, before and after polishing.
Notice in the foreground, there is a connection point that was cut off. It is not used on my model year.
The picture on the right shows the capstan base, coil mount, microswitch mount, and throttle rod connectors; before and after chrome plating.
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These are the coil brackets and bolts, before and after chrome plating.
I was worried that when the bracket is flexed apart to insert the coil, the plating might flake, so the chrome plater went heavier on the copper plate and lighter on the nickel, in order to increase flexibility.
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I eliminated some of the elaborate fuel return lines and the fuel cooler. I felt safe doing so, because I had run the car for 2 years with no A bank regulator and no fuel cooler.
I had no problems with hot start issues.
As I re-routed the B bank fuel lines, I decided to re-mount the fuel pressure regulator on the firewaal, just as John Napoli had done.
To do this, I modified the existing fuel regulator mounting bracket.
The picture on the left shows the stock mounting bracket and the modification I did by cutting off the tube and reshaping.
The picture on the right shows my chrome plated bracket and fittings alongside the original stock fittings.
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| Here are closeups of the modified fuel pressure regulator mounting bracket, before and after chrome plating.
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| Here is the fuse box base plate and relay mount, before and after chrome plating.
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| To connect the fuel rail to the fuel pressure regulator, I needed a custom made hard line.
I cut off the stock barb fitting and compression fittings.
Then I took 5/16 brake line, cut and bent it to fit from the the fuel rail to the pressure regulator.
The whole assembly was then welded together and chrome plated.
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| I took the ABS mounting bracket to my chrome plater with doubts that it could be plated.
He confirmed that, as a single piece, it would not plate or polish well.
There were too many electroplating dead spots and difficult to reach nooks.
So I carefully separated the spot-welded mounting bracket from the firewall base plate.
The 2 pieces were then chrome plated with perfect results.
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| These pictures show the two ABS mount pieces, together and installed on the car.
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| Here is a shot of some of the various pieces that were chrome plated or replaced with chrome fasteners.
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| I had the fuel rail and all 24 injector hose ferrules chrome plated.
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| This shows injector mounting plates, before and after chrome plating.
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| All linkage pieces were also chrome plated. These took a couple of tries to get perfect.
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| The rear manifold balance pipe, PCV pipe, and coolant pipe were all chrome plated.
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| The engine bay braces were also chrome plated.
The factory weld lines on these are extremely lumpy. I was ready to grind them smooth, but the chrome platers did that for me.
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