WHAT IS IT?  SIMPLY STATED  "POLISHED POWER & DURABILITY"

MIKRONITE® AND VINCI HI-PERFORMANCE HAVE JOINED FORCES TO BRING THIS FANTASTIC PROCESS TO THE PERFORMANCE  INDUSTRY.

WE ARE INTRODUCING OUR NEW LINE OF MIKRONITE® PROCESSED DIFFERENTIAL GEAR SETS
IMAGINE:  INCREASING THE STRENGTH AND LONGEVITY OF YOUR RING AND PINION MANY TIMES OVER. CONCEIVABLY AVOID THE COST AND ENERGY OF REPLACING EXISTING DIFFERENTIALS WITH  VERY EXPENSIVE, HEAVY, AFTERMARKET DIFFERENTIAL ASSEMBLIES.
 IMAGINE: ADDING AS MUCH AS 20 RWHP AND 18 FT LBS TORQUE AT THE SAME TIME.
IMAGINE: LOWERING 1/4 MILE ELAPSED TIMES BY OVER 2 TENTHS OF A SECOND
IMAGINE: PICKING UP 2 MPH IN THE QUARTER MILE.
IMAGINE: LOWERING DIFFERENTIAL TEMPERATURES BY AS MUCH AS 35 DEGREES.

SOUND INTERESTING? READ ON!

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ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO VHP BEGAN A SERIES OF RIGOROUS TESTS INVOLVING  DIFFERENTIAL GEAR SETS. THE PURPOSE WAS TO DOCUMENT THE DURABILITY AND PERFORMANCE CHANGES RESULTING FROM  MIKRONITE® PROCESSING THE GEAR SETS. THESE RESULTS WERE ASTOUNDING! VHP PRESENTED THE RESULTS AND THE PROCESSED GEAR SETS AT THE MOST RECENT S.E.M.A.  AND P.R.I. TRADE SHOWS. THE SLIPPERY, BRILLIANT, ALMOST CHROME - LIKE LUSTER OF THE RING AND PINIONS ATTRACTED HUGE QUANTITIES OF SPECTATORS. WHEN THEY LEARNED ABOUT THE RESULTS, GEAR SETS WERE ORDERED ON THE SPOT. VHP IS PROUD TO HAVE BEEN SELECTED TO BRING THIS PHENOMENON TO YOU.

HERE ARE THE RESULTS OF THE TESTS!

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GEAR SET WITH MIKRONITE®  PROCESSING

TEST VEHICLE
 2000 FIREBIRD, STOCK ENGINE - AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION - 3:73 DIFFERENTIAL RATIO, 200hp NITROUS
 THIS VEHICLE WAS SELECTED DUE THE FRAGILE NATURE OF THE 7.5" RING AND PINION GEARS. 200hp NITROUS SHOTS CAN PEEL THE TEETH RIGHT OFF A STOCK RING AND PINION.

TEST PROCEDURE
BASELINE DYNO TESTS WITH STOCK GEAR SETS & REPEAT TESTS WITH MIKRONITE® PROCESSED GEAR SETS
RECORD HORSEPOWER, TORQUE, RELATIVE ROAD NOISE & VIBRATION LEVELS, & DIFFERENTIAL  TEMPERATURES UNDER VARIOUS DRIVING CONDITIONS.
GRAPH BEST OF THREE DYNO RUNS FOR EACH GEAR SET.

TEST RESULTS
THE MIKRONITE® TREATED GEAR SETS AVERAGED OVER 13RWHP AND 14FT LBS TQ INCREASE OVER UNTREATED GEAR SETS.
TEST TEAM FOUND THE VEHICLE TO BE SIGNIFICANTLY  QUIETER AND SMOOTHER IN STREET OPERATION WITH THE MIKRONITE® PROCESSED GEAR SETS.
THE AVERAGE DIFFERENTIAL TEMPERATURES WERE 28 DEGREES LOWER THAN UNTREATED GEAR SETS.
AFTER 600 MILES AND SEVERAL TRIPS DOWN THE DRAG STRIP,  MANY WITH NITROUS, THE MIKRONITE® PROCESSED GEAR SETS STILL RETAINED A HIGH LUSTER FINISH WITH ONLY A SLIGHTLY DISCERNABLE  WEAR PATTERN ON THE TEETH. ONE OF THESE TESTED GEAR SETS WAS THE PRODUCT ACTUALLY DISPLAYED AT THE  TWO TRADE SHOWS. MOST PEOPLE WHO HANDLED THE GEAR SET THOUGHT IT WAS NEW AND HAD NEVER BEEN RUN. IN FACT, THE GEAR SET HAD 40 RUNS WITH A 200 SHOT OF NITROUS.

TEST REPEATS
VHP REPEATED THIS TEST PROCEDURE ON SEVERAL MORE GEAR SETS IN THE SAME TEST VEHICLE AS WELL AS OTHER VEHICLES.  SOME OF THESE VEHICLES HAD HIGHLY MODIFIED LARGE DISPLACEMENT ENGINES. THE  TEST  RESULTS MATCHED OR EXCEEDING THE FIRST SERIES OF TESTS.

COMPARATIVE GEAR PROCESSING
WE ARE AWARE OF OTHER METAL  TREATMENTS  IN THE INDUSTRY. VHP PERFORMED THE SAME SERIES OF TESTS ON SEVERAL MORE GEAR SETS THAT HAD BEEN TREATED WITH DIFFERENT PROCESSES. THE RESULTS WERE RATHER "UNDERWHELMING". THE GEAR SETS DISPLAYED VERY LITTLE IMPROVEMENT IN POWER GAINS, AND IN SOME CASES EVEN LOST POWER. WEAR PATTERNS WERE OBVIOUS IN EVERY CASE, AND THE NOISE AND VIBRATION LEVELS WERE INCREASED, RATHER THAN DECREASED.  TEMPERATURES ALSO INCREASED OR WERE LOWERED ONLY SLIGHTLY. THE GRAPHS OF THESE RESULTS CAN BE VIEWED BY CLICKING ON THE  GRAPHS.

 < SOME OF THE MOST POPULAR PROFESSIONAL DRIVERS USING MIKRONITE® >

THESE PROSTOCK, TOP FUEL, AND FUNNY CAR DRIVERS DEMAND THE VERY HIGHEST POWER AND RELIABILITY  FOR THEIR RACE CARS. THAT IS WHY THEY ALL USE AND ENDORSE MIKRONITE®  PRODUCTS. NOW YOU CAN ENJOY THE SAME ADVANTAGES AS THE PROS.

HOW & WHEN CAN I HAVE MIKRONITE GEAR SETS?

VHP IS NOW PROCESSING RING & PINION GEAR SETS IN MOST POPULAR APPLICATIONS
CALL TOLL FREE FOR PRICE AND APPLICATION

BUT!   DON'T GET CAUGHT WITHOUT YOUR MIKRONITE® !

VHP IS ALSO ACCEPTING NEW RING & PINION GEAR SETS FOR PROCESSING.  IF YOU HAVE A NEW GEAR SET
 "UN-INSTALLED", YOU MAY SEND IT TO US FOR PROCESSING NOW.  TURN AROUND TIME,  ABOUT 1 WEEK.
STANDARD GEAR SETS $275.00 per set

HIGH HORSEPOWER / PRO-GEAR SETS $ 400.00 per set

WE ARE ALSO ACCEPTING A VARIETY OF OTHER PRODUCTS THAT CAN BENEFIT SIGNIFICANTLY FROM OUR MIKRONITE® PROCESSING


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INTERESTING FACTS FROM  MIKRONITE® TECHNOLOGIES

What is MIKRONITE®

Mikronite® is the brand name for a surface finishing process that strengthens, smoothes and polishes materials to enhance their performance.

In other words, Mikronite® improves sharpness, durability, lubricity and impact resistance while reducing friction, resistance and corrosion.

What Is The Process?
The Mikronite® process is based on a simple concept of applying lapping-like scratching under extremely high compression. Objects are placed in a fluidized medium containing an abrasive in a specially designed reverse centrifugal accelerating agitator. The medium is non-caustic and generally organic.
As the objects are revolved, they are subjected to massive G forces  so that very fine particles --- as small as dust --- operate multiple times their mass and weight. To solve the problem of static revolving forces --- because centrifugal forces spin things away from the center --- the reverse centrifugal forces cause a wave-like motion creating a sinusoidal agitation.
Once accelerated, the medium slides uniformly across the object's surface with controlled and even distribution of pressure.

How Does It Work?
The Mikronite® process works by compressing the exterior surface of an object to reduce slip planes. To understand slip planes, visualize a brick wall which usually cracks along a line that looks like a staircase. This fracture line is a slip plane. By compressing or meshing those relatively straight lines, the Mikronite® process puts them in a tongue and groove or interwoven relationship.

This produces molecular-level changes to the surface of an object without changing its size, shape or metallurgy. The depth of this change can be controlled for the best blend of hardness and ductile properties. For example, it is usually desirable to make the exterior harder and leave the interior ductile so the material has the best of flexibility and strength without brittleness.

What Is The Result?
As a result, surface characteristics of an object are extremely optimized making them harder, smoother, more polished, more uniform and more corrosion resistant with higher lubricity and less friction.


What Mikronite® is NOT
Mikronite® is solely a mechanical action process. It is not a coating, and it does not involve an active heat process nor caustic chemicals of any kind.


 

Simply stated: The MIKRONITE® process is reinventing the engineer's choice of processing technology and often materials by requiring a re-thinking of all conventional rules and limitations of mass finishing. The value of improving materials to perform to expected engineered standards cannot be over-emphasized.

What Are The Key Advantages?

What Is The Process?
The Mikronite® process is based on a simple concept of applying lapping-like scratching under extremely high compression. Objects are placed in a fluidized medium containing an abrasive in a specially designed reverse centrifugal accelerating agitator. The medium is non-caustic and generally organic.

As the objects are revolved, they are subjected to massive G forces so that very fine particles --- as small as dust --- operate multiple times their mass and weight. To solve the problem of static revolving forces --- because centrifugal forces spin things away from the center --- the reverse centrifugal forces cause a wave-like motion creating a sinusoidal agitation.

Once accelerated, the medium slides uniformly across the object's surface with controlled and even distribution of pressure.

Process

MIKRONITE® is a dry mechanical process with such accuracy and power that its benefits can be measured at the microstructure level. Through the precise control of extreme compressive forces and high frequency oscillation, parts can be improved in more profound ways than post production finishing has ever offered. Now a new tool for the engineer allows access to the ideal states of material science and the ability to reduce failure potential in otherwise process or substrate damaged parts. As vibratory tumbling became a standard preparation for plating, MIKRONITE® will be the standard for product strength, tolerance, material specification compliance, and chemical preparation for modern coating and vapor deposition technologies.

MIKRONITE® systems are perfectly suited to modern manufacturing applications. All systems are stand alone units having a very compact footprint. No additional ventilation or sound attenuation is required in installation, and all machines can operate on multiple voltages and worldwide power variations.

The machines are designed to be operated by a single individual, and in most cases multiple machines can be operated by a trained person simultaneously. This allows existing factories to add this technology regardless of their method of manufacturing, integrating seamlessly into cellular, throughput, assembly line, or "JIT" just in time philosophies.

In case of high volume manufacturing needs, machines can either be designed to integrate into product creation by matching speeds of other elements of the assembly line process, or by being designed to do batch loads at efficient times in the assembly.

In the case of commercial products with minimum lot tracking, batch processes tend to be the preferred method. With expensive industrial grade product, it is more common to work JIT with complete traceability of products.

Effects

Strengthen
MIKRONITE® material treatment imparts a high energy flow of abrasive and carrier media in a fluidized bath that cascades against the surface of a work piece while supporting its structure. This technology refines the surface of the part and as desired can create compressive forces, increasing the metals ability to resist deformation under load.

On ceramics and glass, failure and fractures are understood to propagate from the surface through the body of the part. The use of MIKRONITE® material treatment to virtually eliminate cracks and inclusions results in a structurally sound and significantly more durable product.

On metals, the addition of cold plastic deformation  of near surface layers, reduce slip plane movement by shifting the fault lines from linear to interwoven while increasing hardness of exposed surface features.

Coating Synergy
In certain applications of metal parts the need exists to produce a chemical barrier between materials. This is widely seen on cutting tools with titanium nitride or other composition coatings. MIKRONITE® material treatment has a proven history of both preparing a part for coating to increase adhesion, and of smoothing uneven deposits of coatings due to chemical impurities or flawed magnetic fields. In some cases the isotropic surface  created and low RA  can eliminate coatings, with a side effect that can alter the surface color to a freshly polished look. MIKRONITE® material treatment has improved the survival benefit of coated tooling by as much as 300% over coating alone.

Lubricity
The newly created surface now has an evenly calculated pattern of channels that promotes capillary distribution, and temporary adhesion of a lubricant, and has a reduced coefficient of friction (COF). If lubrication from an outside liquid is possible then a barrier film may be desirable. The MIKRONITE® process has the ability to create a smooth surface on materials as needed, which help promote hydrodynamic effects . In applications such as dry machining of materials, a smoother surface with less deformation to get caught on mating pieces or peaks (decreased Rmax) that otherwise heat and topically distort, usually is the only method of reducing COF and increasing service life.

Polishing
The MIKRONITE® process produces an incredible improvement in the appearance of products. With mirror finishes achieved on many products, MIKRONITE® machinery is both an asset as a diagnostic inspection tool, highlighting the deficiencies of high precision products, and a distinctive stand alone attention grabber, with the quality of the part represented in its jewelry like luster.

Corrosion Resistance
Perhaps the most unexpected of all the benefits of the MIKRONITE® process creating a practically perfect surface, is the reduction of chemical interaction between that surface and environmental corrosives. Metals resist rust and oxidation, even after months of exposure and handling. More complex interactions as occurs with the cobalt binder of tungsten carbide and acids in organic materials such as wood can be tamed or eliminated. This phenomenon may be explained as simply less surface area existing on a smoother surface means less contact with the environment, or it may have to do with a compacted fractal geometry that has no areas for impurities to infiltrate and bind to. This virtue of the MIKRONITE® system will be studied to broaden its future uses, but for now it is a repeatable, environmentally friendly and cost effective way to make sure your manufactured product performs to the most demanding standards.

Honing
The use of the MIKRONITE® system as a method to improve life and wear characteristics has been the benchmark of our research. As we expand the available energies that can be imparted on the work piece and the frequency of the parts oscillations, MIKRONITE® becomes a tool to form and configure. In many cases our high G Forces, often many times higher then the 1200 pound point pressure of a typical milling operation, can be controlled to hone or radius an edge as well as level a surface. This application of the MIKRONITE® process allows many parts to be fabricated by conventional methods and (in cutting tools for example a tool that is sharpened but not honed is described as "up-sharp") and inventoried in an application neutral condition. When the customer specifies the desirable hone or radius characteristic, the part can easily, cleanly, and economically be completed through MIKRONITE® material treatment. Applications for honing include cutting tools, both metal and ceramic, hot isostatic pressed parts, sintered or molded pieces, forged pieces, gears and cut and hobbed pieces.