Sorry to ask such a dumb question, but I can't find anything telling me what it entails. Is it spraying glass beads with a compressor to kinda sand blast all the crap off? How dose it strengthen the rods?

Help me out here........

 

no such thing as a stupid question..only stupid people who don't ask them!

so with that said i would like to know too.

 

Shot peening is spraying the surface with tiny beads (or pieces of shot, like a shotgun). Doing this aligns the grain structure of the metal, kind of like forging, thus making it stronger.

 

It compresses the surface of the steel which increases its strength and eliminates microscopic cracks in the surface by "smashing" them flat. The tiny cracks are what bigger ones develop from. It's called crack propagation.

 

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heh are you serious?

So dose any of this take any of the metal off? Or just beating it to a more denser shape?

What kind of shop will do this? Avg. cost?

 

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Just beats it. Anyone with the right equipment can do it... some machine shops, depending on what they specialize in. I've never checked around for a best price.

 

what exactly would you want to do this on?

 

Well you could shotpeen stock rods, but they still wont be as strong as aftermarket rods. I have also heard of peening tranny gears.

 

but if the cost wasn't that much to actually have it done, and I had the rods\engine (B18C1) disassembled. It would be better than plain stock ones, thats what I was leaning towards.

 

not sure on the cost. But i don't think its worth it.

Put that money towards new rods.