Thoughts on using the WPC treatment to rotor housings/irons/etc etc?

Prolong life of the seals? Faster revving?



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It was done on a buddies build, unfortunately Brian Cain (BDC motorsports) jacked up the engine build so it made zero compression and failed. So we don't know what the WPC would of or could have done that was beneficial. My buddy did do it on his turbo though and it seemed to help. I will likely do it on my next turbo rebuild.

 

I might give this a shot on my next build.

But I wonder if cyro treatment will create the same kind of results

 

Who knows, the concept seems legit though, the work Hoss had done looked good, too bad the stuff that was treated is now useless.

 

I think new stock plate (still has nitrite on) has 70 rC ?

I wonder what's the rockwell gonna be like after treatment.

 

That's a good question, i wonder if i could get one of these irons tested. Hmmmm, I wonder who has a rockwell tester locally.

 

Without a before/after test you're just guessing out of your butt

 

Maybe test one that has not been treated too? Think they would all be the same roughly untreated?

 

If you look up the words "assumption" and "validated" in the dictionary they won't have the same meaning ...

 

Okay, okay, I understand what you are saying

 

Well, i will get my plate re nitrite soon, but i have no equipment to test rockwell

 

I've seen this discussed on RX7club a few times. Nothing conclusive, just a lot of speculation and heresay. The few mentions of it in use conclude with it not lasting long enough to justify the price--while being vague in the exact length/type of operation.

The full "review" is here (seems more of a puff-piece than an actual review):

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I don't find this to be very likely given the process they described. "Granules" are multi-micron diameter particles; several orders of magnitude larger than the molecular level.

It's good to see that the "data" they were "analyzing" couldn't possibly be bias.


I agree, it's more fluff than fact.

(The poor word choice is another give away; pointing out that it is not a coating, but then saying: "...leaving [behind] a hard micro dimpled surface.")