WPC Treatments for your motorcycle.
What is WPC Treatments?
Basically it is Micro shot peening surface metals.
Steel, Aluminum, bronze, even Nikasil plating can be treated.
So I went on Youtube and watched the two demonstrations done by Izumi, the owner of WPC Treatments.
Ok, looks promising but how does those demonstrations translate into motorcycle parts?
Most of us know that shot peening makes the surface metal harder... But peening needle bearings and bushings? I admit I was a bit skeptical. So I had some parts WPC treated and decided to do a very garage like test to see if there was any noticeable differences between treated and untreated.
Here is the set up..
Like I said, it's a very garage like test...
But the results were very close to one another.
1st test. I ran this set up with the WPC treated bushing and bearing. The trans shaft and the clutch basket were untreated.
2nd test. I ran this set up with a brand new untreated bushing and bearing... Same trans shaft and basket.
3rd test. I ran this set up with a used bearing and bushing... Same trans shaft and basket.
4th test. Because some will complain about my unscientific method of testing I ran the WPC treated parts again with a worn battery and duplicated my initial results.
I ran each test 5 times.
I tossed out the high number and the low number (They were very close) then averaged the three middle numbers.
The WPC Treated part ran for an average of 36.19 seconds.
Now you have to guess how long the untreated new bearing and collar ran for
