Plating nuts and bolts for car restoration

[dinobelf]

I am restoring a 1977 Porsche 911. and have been advised to anodise the bolts and nuts to restore them to 'new' condition.
I thought anodising was for aluminium only. Can this be done, or should I nickel or cad plate them? Does the plating make the bolts too 'fat' to go throught the nuts?
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Dino.

[sswee]

Anodizing is for aluminum or titanium only. The bolts should be able to be cad plated without a tolerance problem on the threads. Unless they are special made bolts, the standard grade 5 bolt normally used for most applications is a little loose on geometric tolerences. At the worst, you might have to run a die over any that won't start and thread ok. This is normal for bolts and nuts that have been chromed for show applications. Good luck. SS

[chrisk]

porsche do use aluminium wheel nuts but predominately on the newer cars. I guess if there as heavy as normal bolts go for the plate. If they do seem on the light side they may well be aluminium.