Looking for your experience with various paints / coatings / treatments on the different parts in the suspension system. I'm going to be doing a 100% overhaul of everything connected to the frame and only want to do this once! I know there are preferred ways to deal with different parts, so I'd love to hear what you think I should do for part groups such as:
Hardware (nuts, bolts, washers) - leaning towards sending out to get cadmium plated. I understand cad isn't super durable, but I like the gold color. What else should I consider?
Brake parts - calipers and parking brake mechanism in particular - not too picky on color but leaning towards silver. Should I just get these blasted and then hand-paint with caliper paint, or should I powder coat them? I did a car where I had all this stuff cadmium plated and it looked awesome but I don't know how durable that is with the heat long-term
Large suspension parts - upper A-arm, lower control arm, steering knuckle, roll bar, upper and lower links in the rear suspension, trailing arm, hub carrier - not sure what to do here but probably powder coat?
If you have photos of what you did and how it turned out I'd love to see it.
Making big plans!
Andy