Hi all. I have my ‘89 S4 project car disassembled to a large degree, and was considering having all the aluminum hard lines (brake, fuel, AT cooler) anodized. I figure they’ll get a thorough cleaning as part of the prep process as well. Any experience with this, recommendations for/against, etc?

 

You can have steel plated, but not anodized.
Anodizing only works on aluminum.

Most people have these lines either Cadmium plated or Zinc plated.

 

thanks Greg. Will look into zinc plating.

 

We use gold zinc on our hardware/lines.

 

wow, I hadn’t heard of gold zinc. I was wondering about yellow chromate after the zinc plating but I’ll ask the plating shop about gold zinc.

 

.....My plating house speaks very little English, but I get what I want when I ask for "gold zinc".

We're talking about the same thing, with just a difference in word selection.

 

ahh, now I understand thanks again Greg!