Do any of you here Cryo-treat your brake rotors and/or pads?
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Do any of you here Cryo-treat your brake rotors and/or pads?
While digging through the 3rd gen archives I came across this subject. I know maxcooper has used it in the past.....can anyone else share their experience?
Here is the link:
http://www.cryoscience.com/drivetrains.htm
Here is the link:
http://www.cryoscience.com/drivetrains.htm
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I have a friend that works at a laboratory. Maybe I can use the liquid nitrogen and do the thing myself. So is the whole process just dipping the metal in liquid nitrogen or is there more?
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I have not had it done, but I have seen it proven on iron discs used in racing. It's is a true improvement, but unless the car is heavily tracked I don't see the real need. It will never hurt though.
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Originally posted by Fujisuma
I have a friend that works at a laboratory. Maybe I can use the liquid nitrogen and do the thing myself. So is the whole process just dipping the metal in liquid nitrogen or is there more?
I have a friend that works at a laboratory. Maybe I can use the liquid nitrogen and do the thing myself. So is the whole process just dipping the metal in liquid nitrogen or is there more?
Here is a good site on the cyrogenic process.
http://www.metal-wear.com/Cryogenics_heattreat.htm
"Cryogenic Processing is not a simple dunk into liquid nitrogen."
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Originally posted by Scrub
I tihnk if you just dunked it into liqid nitrogen then it would make the parts very brittle. Unless im mistaken. Anyone see demolition man??
I tihnk if you just dunked it into liqid nitrogen then it would make the parts very brittle. Unless im mistaken. Anyone see demolition man??
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I have had both Brembos and Powerslots cryo-treated locally for my FD and my SVT Contour and had no warping probs with either set. I found a guy who treats high-wear parts for bus companies, punches and bits for machine tool shops, etc., and he'll do a set of brake rotors for $50 for me.
The FD set were tracked for 2 years with Hawk Black and then KFP pads, and rotor wear (especially the Brembo fronts) has been good, altho I can't give you any comparitive data for non-cryo'd rotors.
On the Contour I'm using a Mintex C-Tech track/street pad, which is a fairly agressive ferro-carbon pad, and the Powerslots are wearing faster than the Brembos on the FD did (I drive about 40 miles of stop-go daily), but the rotors are staying true after nearly a year of daily workouts.
The cryo tempering process uses liquid nitrogen followed by a heat tempering cycle, but you don't dunk the parts in the nitrogen. They're cooled down very slowly in a special machine.
The FD set were tracked for 2 years with Hawk Black and then KFP pads, and rotor wear (especially the Brembo fronts) has been good, altho I can't give you any comparitive data for non-cryo'd rotors.
On the Contour I'm using a Mintex C-Tech track/street pad, which is a fairly agressive ferro-carbon pad, and the Powerslots are wearing faster than the Brembos on the FD did (I drive about 40 miles of stop-go daily), but the rotors are staying true after nearly a year of daily workouts.
The cryo tempering process uses liquid nitrogen followed by a heat tempering cycle, but you don't dunk the parts in the nitrogen. They're cooled down very slowly in a special machine.
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What about cryo treating tranny internals? Anyone done that? Specifically the 5th gear synchro Actually, if it's not a huge expense, maybe it'd be worth it to cryo all of the replaceable internals on a tranny when going for a rebuild.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
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supposed to make your rotors last up to 300% longer. www.frozenrotors.com
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