All You Need and Wanted to Know About WPC

The team noted the following gains in performance and reliability over the course of the season:

• Higher horsepower
• Faster acceleration
• Better wear on engine parts, the treatment doubled engine life greatly reducing maintenance costs
• Strengthening of parts, failures were reduced to zero in connecting rods and transmission ring gears and counter shafts, these were high failure parts in the past
• A slightly leaner air/fuel ratio could be run with no loss in power meaning better fuel economy a big advantage in endurance racing.

These metallographs taken from test panels of hardened nitrided steel show that WPC works at refining the grain even on hardened and treated metals. Note the obvious improvement of the grain and the elimination of crack-forming surface flaws visible at the higher magnification levels.

WPC Saves Money!

We use WPC extensively on MotoIQ’s race and project cars. We’ve found these processes to save us many dollars in preventing part failures, reducing maintenance and lowering our DNF rate in racing. Consider this; although many of us racers would like to think we are something special, the cold truth is that maybe only 1 in a thousand of us really is. Most of us are either club racers or semi-pro racers running our own programs largely out of our own pockets. Sure, we might be the local track hero, we might get in magazines or TV occasionally, we may even have part/fluid/tire sponsors. But the bulk of labor, transportation and crew costs come out of our pockets. If we break we don’t have a big well trained crew and transporters full of spares to make things right again.

We probably have to spend several hundred bucks on entry fees, more hundreds on gas for our tow rig, more hundreds on food and lodging for our crew (even if it is our buddies doing it for free and we all sleep on the floor of a single Motel 6 room). To prep the car took many hours of time; time away from other duties, time away that annoys wives, girlfriends and maybe your real job’s boss. Maybe your race time takes up your precious vacation time. These are all important costs.

Let’s say you break on the morning warm-up on the first day of your race weekend. Not you? Well you gotta admit that on a typical race weekend this happens frequently. It has probably happened to you at one time or another. If your problem was bad and puts you on the trailer, look at all of the wasted time and money. That’s no fun. Even if you love mechanical work, there are probably better things to do with your time off than fixing and rebuilding components.

For the engine builder, WPC is a way to give your customers an advantage in both performance and durability. Saving your customers hard-earned money and improving your customer satisfaction. It can also be a good profit center option for your business.

Regardless of your role in motorsports, WPC is well worth exploring. Here are a couple videos we’ve also made to try to further explain the WPC process and results.

 WPC Treatment