This is for real. New type of treatment for various substances. Dynos' showing 4 hp increase on 5.0 Mustang. Course we all know that the Mustang diff is a well known power robber. Wonder what it would do for us--doing the diff and transmission? If we could get 7-9 HP wouldnt that be great.
Go to Mikronite.com for all the info.
Costs about $200 to do the diff gears.
Let the opinions begin!
olddragger

 

well...someones gonna have to try it

 

$200 + the cost of new gears, as they will not mikronite used parts

 

you know that for sure?
OD

 

you should also investigate the REM process, AWR uses it on their RX-8 road race trannies for about the same gain

http://www.hrpworld.com/client_images/text/109_1.pdf

 

I was thinking of doing my rotors with this Cryogenics.

http://www.diversifiedcryogenics.com/index-2.html

 

I went to the Micronite site and it required the Adobe (read memory leak) version of Flash. That prevents me from viewing their site.

We used to see a process sold to racers for gears that was basicly a micro-polish. Drop the gears in a slurry of oil & ultrafine Aluminum Oxide & small pellets then ultrasonically polish them. Sounded good on paper it just didn't produce any dyno changes. Granted they used the process on helicopter gearboxes for longer life and a few really good papers have been published on the subject. The same papers also tell us no difference in drag.

Oil makes a big difference. Years ago when I raced Sports 2000 we found changing from 80W gear oil to 15-50W Mobil 1 resulted in a 4 HP gain. We later found the 15-50W also knocked the corners off the engagement dogs on the gears a lot faster.

Cryo treatments can offer some improvements in surface abrasion resistance on some alloys. We've seen about 10% increase in the life of 2 stroke pistons; In our case on the shifter karts they were good for 49 minutes rather then 45 minutes.

 

the thing i like about the mikronite tx is the pressure used to do the "polishing"--the fact nasa uses it on there nosecones interests me futher.
olddragger

 

they also just bought out crane cams. Cant believe no one is speaking of the possibilities of this process on our gears and rotor housings.
olddragger

 

well it's hard to justify tearing down an entire engine/trans/dif to perform it, there's the time and cost, etc. Pretty exclusive to racers or those who are already planning a rebuild and have the finances

 

Already did my brake rotors.