cryo treat your parts
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cryo treat your parts
has anyone tried the cryogenic freezing tech. on their parts yet? prices are reasonable. check it out, thought you might want to try:www.deepfreezecryo.com let me what ya'll think good or gimick. i do know some people that have had rifle barrels froze. they have had no problems.
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Re:cryo treat your parts
i read a zc buildup where he cryo treated his pistons. he put in 89 integra pistons i think. he was running non turbo but a 100 shot of nitrous i think, he blew up the motor from a problem with the nitrous, but i think the cryo treatment worked fine other than that.......i cant remember the site though.
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Re:cryo treat your parts
Originally Posted by shortyz
they cool it down to like -400 or something crazy. then it is warmed up very slowly allowing for the molecules to line up and make the part harder.
much like a mineral.
much like a mineral.
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Re:cryo treat your parts
The hardness does not change, but the amount of retained austenite is supposed to be reduced. This is what affects the wear rate of materials in friction.
I have done a lot of research in cryo treatment, and have read hundreds of pages of hoo-haw about it, and it is still a little bit of a mystery on some things.
From the perspective of steel parts, it is proven to reduce the retained austenite, as it is simply an extension of the age hardening portion of the heat treating process. But the mysteries still lie in the claims that aluminum benefits from the process, or other materials. They say golf ***** drive farther after cryo treatment, and that it is not a legal thing to do in competition. There is no way that anyone could prove that the treatment was done though, on anything.
I am currently testing cryo treated brake rotors on my car, so far so good. It is too early to tell though, but I have two track days on the rotors and they are still like new. I have blasted through a set of rotors in one day before when the brake pads overheated.
Jim
I have done a lot of research in cryo treatment, and have read hundreds of pages of hoo-haw about it, and it is still a little bit of a mystery on some things.
From the perspective of steel parts, it is proven to reduce the retained austenite, as it is simply an extension of the age hardening portion of the heat treating process. But the mysteries still lie in the claims that aluminum benefits from the process, or other materials. They say golf ***** drive farther after cryo treatment, and that it is not a legal thing to do in competition. There is no way that anyone could prove that the treatment was done though, on anything.
I am currently testing cryo treated brake rotors on my car, so far so good. It is too early to tell though, but I have two track days on the rotors and they are still like new. I have blasted through a set of rotors in one day before when the brake pads overheated.
Jim
