Edelbrock Endurashine finish intake (do they hold

Hmmm...

With the Ford big block exhaust manifold adapters and some custom motor mounts I could drop the built Caddy 500 in the hole ~ set up standard rotation.

               Naaah ~

I have given up on any sort of polished or raw aluminum exposed in the engine compartment.... just cant keep it clean as noted above.. it was hard painting over new expensive and pretty aluminum heads but it looks better than the alternative. Back to the question, I have seen the endurashine stuff on some performance boats.. a few with a couple years old installations and seems to be holding up great so far.. however I had the feeling that anything on these particular boats would have looked good.. I say if you like shiny give it a shot.. its only money.

I thought endurashine was powder coat paint? If it's not there are powder coats just as good looking.

while we are on the subject of finishes, i am doing a pair of 370 bbc's and sent the blocks and intakes to get baked, the intakes were GM performance intakes, they were painted black when i dropped them off.
When picking them up all the paint was burned off and in areas on the manifolds themselves, aluminum was melted off and underneath was brass, the aluminum must have been plated over the brass, it was about 1/32 nd thick, So the intakes must be all brass with aluminum plating, i would say high dollar intakes.....i never knew, anyone know of these intakes?