Cryo stock Rods?

05_LLY

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Would it be worth it doing a stock rebuild for added security in say a 500hp truck? Not really looking to do it but was just thinking about it today while talking to a buddy who is having his NV4500 done in his dodge?

THoughts?
 
JOHNBOY

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05_LLY said:
Would it be worth it doing a stock rebuild for added security in say a 500hp truck? Not really looking to do it but was just thinking about it today while talking to a buddy who is having his NV4500 done in his dodge?

THoughts?
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Turd polishing basicly IMHO.;)
 
05_LLY

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JOHNBOY said:
Turd polishing basicly IMHO.;)
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:rofl:Yeah Kinda my thoughts but i figured it might be a interesting topic to discuss, all the doged pullers down here are going to cry on their trans to keep from breaking for next year, that how i came onto the thought!!!
 
JOHNBOY

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maxaholic said:
Just a thought but if it's worthless why does the airline industry and NASA use cryo.
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Among other things I make flight critical parts for the airline industy, the US Armed Forces, and NASA. I have been on site at consulting Allied Signal, Lockheed Martin, and some others I am not allowed to talk about. Take a look here.:thumb: http://www.acutecprecision.com/
We have a Cryo treatment station on site among many other things.

The trouble is not Cryo itself. The powdered metal the stock rod is made out of is the problem. It is not of a make up that would benifit from Cyro.

Cryo will not make something out right stronger. It is a basicly a finishing operation that help to massage the the last bit of life out of metal by making it more uniform in it's grain structure. Parts that see high cyclic loads like gears and aircraft landing gear benfit from it. It does not make them over all stronger it just insures they live to the desired life cycle.
 
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duratothemax

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maxaholic said:
Just a thought but if it's worthless why does the airline industry and NASA use cryo.
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because even though you technically do give the metal a more uniform hardness and greater dimensional stability, you still dont have that much metal to work with (in the rod), and not to mention the design of the rod isnt anything special either. You can cryo the rods all you want but it cant make up for material that isnt there in the first place...

everyone throws around "oh you should cryo this! cryo that!" thinking it makes the impossible possible or something, because it sounds neat, and I mean come on how cool is it using LN2 to freeze something? :D

Or maybe im wrong??? :confused:

ben
 
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maxaholic said:
I'm not saying it would be the end all be all for strength. But could it not help any.
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It IMHO would not hurt. If that answers your question.

Stock rods cyroed has been tried. Back in the summer of 06. The rods still bent. Basicly save the money you would spend on cyro and put it toward a better rod.

But what do I know?
 
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