Originally Posted By sixpackgut
If the nitrading causes the cam to be black like that, how come the bearing journals are not black


they were either polished after or protected from the process. Nitriding causes a flat black surface...think like case hardened hardware. I grabbed this pic off the internet....I don't have any pics of the one I had done. look particularly at the snout.

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