Chryogenic Component Treatment, Alternative to Forged Internals?

[TU-Tuning]

Anyone clued up on this? Read an article in a Jap mag round my mates the other day, theres a few companies doing it. Its meant to be a completely viable, non corner cutting yet cheaper alternative to forged components.

They basically put your parts into a tank which is then filled with Liquid Nitrogen, which then turns into gas before actually touching your parts. The parts are cooled by 0.25DegC a minute until they're at -180DegC. They're then kept there for 24 hours and then gently warmed over a further period of around 6 hours I believe.

Any car parts can be sent, from axles to conrods, and the prices were really very good. It was something like (bare in mind Im working off memory but theyll be very close to this);

- £100 for all the bottom end components
- £250 for a head and its internals
- £600 for an entire engine, including the block and all internals
- £200 for a gearbox and its internals
- £650 for an engine AND gearbox incl. all internals

And its been proven to work very well, guys running serious power in 200sx drift cars with 500 bhp were using treated internals, and one guy had been using them since 2002 whilst competing regularly in drift leagues. And had never had a failure.

Another guy had used it for his gearbox on his drag prepped Pulsar, the box used to explode as soon as he tried to pull away, with the new internals he made 4 or 5 runs before they gave up.

I cant find the company online, Ill get the name off my mate. But they supply many F1 teams with their internals, as well as rally teams and all sorts of other competitive motorsport and other engineering applications including the Aircraft industry and Military. But they're work is now becoming well known int he modifying community.

It seems like a very good alternative to forgies. Anyone got any experiences or opinions on this shiz?

[Ryan]

to run big valves/wild cams for example you would still need to have atleast massive machinieng done to the pistons to prevent clashing. Factor in new pistons rings and it soon mounts up.

A good idea/price there though for alot of the stuff. Just remeber its not allways because OE components break as to why people run forged parts.

[leightonjay]

l heard of that a while back, sounds good but dont know a lot about them.

[ryanmt]

anything to make an MA box stronger has to be a good thing

[Ryan]

anything to make an MA box stronger has to be a good thing

Fit a quaife, 90% of the issues gone and all the extra benifits to :D

[olee]

I mentioned this in dannys thread on 106oc. was thinking about getting it done to a vtr box I have, ready for boost! The same company the manufactor Nitrac discs can do the treatment.

Iv got a few emails somewhere from a few companies I spoke to about it, seems like a good idea if you ask me.

[ryanmt]

Fit a quaife, 90% of the issues gone and all the extra benifits to :D

haha yeah, pay me to unlock 10 ecus and ill go off and order one tomorrow :hug:

Its on my list though, along with a turbo manifold/downpipe and a clutch.

hmm, more ecus needed :panic: