RECOGNIZING THE NEED

ASNU was developed back in the early Eighties by Alan Skovron, who at the time owned his own fuel injection workshop in Sydney and was regarded as one of the leading fuel injection specialists in Australia.

In the 1980’s, the Australian petrol engine vehicle market, percentage wise, had more fuel injected vehicles than most other major counties. With the fuel being of lead based production and by today’s standards, of poor quality, the petrol injector valves began to foul up and clog, restricting the fuel flow and causing poor fuel atomization.

This poor injector performance affected the engines performance, so more and more companies started to produce chemical cleaning system, either fluid you add to the fuel in the tank or a pressure system that fitted into the fuel system. Alan had tried the various chemical cleaning systems, with differing results, but none able to return the injectors to 100% to their original condition.

FINDING THE SOLUTION

Faced with this problem, Alan experimented with cleaning injectors using ultrasonics. To test his results, he built a flow bench so that he could see the spray patterns and measure the flow rates. Further experiment using ultrasonics followed until Alan was able to get the injectors performing as if the were as good "AS NEW" (ASNU).

With the prototype ASNU, Alan started to solve problems on fuel-injected engines that other workshops and other equipment could not resolve.

As word spread, Alan started to receive inquiries from other garages to build an ASNU system for them.

With the assistance of a marketing genius, elder brother Mike, the Skovron brothers set about building and marketing the ASNU machine.

MARKET POTENTIAL

Realizing the marketing potential of this equipment, they developed a worldwide marketing program for ASNU. After securing Patens on the cleaning process Alan had developed, the brothers travelled the world demonstrating and presenting ASNU.

It has been my pleasure to work with ASNU and the Skovron families since 1989 when I first met Mike and Alan and saw the ASNU in action. During this time, I have been fortunate enough to gain a vast amount of knowledge and expertise in the Petrol Injector Diagnostics market, from both Mike and, until his untimely death in 1997, the inventor of ASNU, Mike's brother Alan.

Mike and Alan had the foresight and the talent that has made ASNU what it is today, the market leader in Injector Diagnostics. Their input will always be remembered and respected as long as there is ASNU.

AUSTRALIA TODAY

ASNU is still alive and well in Australia and is now being marketed by Peter Cochrane of ASNU Australia. Peter has a wealth of "hands on" knowledge and experience of ASNU and injectors, gained from being the ASNU Sales Manager for High Tech Auto Tools in Sydney for the last 10 years.

DEVELOPING ASNU IN EUROPE AND IN THE USA

At the beginning of the 90’s, ASNU was introduced the Europe and the USA.

Although the ASNU was well received on both sides of the Atlantic, the need for the machine was only of interest to real fuel injection specialist, as only about 15% of the vehicles in these markets were fuel injected, where as in Australia, they were about 70 – 80% injected.

Various people, myself included, who saw the potential of ASNU, took the opportunity to get involved in the future, Fuel Injection, as was and still is, the biggest developing area in the petrol engine market.

ASNU IN EUROPE

In Europe, I started ASNU in the UK in 1990 and developed the European market from there. In 1991, I introduced the ASNU program to Lucas in Europe. Lucas took a three-year option to distribute ASNU in Europe, this contract ended in 1997.

In 1998, ASNU received official worldwide approval from Robert Bosch GmbH for use in their Bosch Service Workshops. Bosch distributes ASNU in various countries.

ASNU IN THE USA

1990 and in the USA, Sam Jackson from ACE Electric, then part of the Echlin organization, joined the ASNU program, 10 years on, Sam is still successfully selling ASNU today.

In 1993, Echlin introduced the ASNU program to the rest of the Echlin organization. Various versions of ASNU then appeared on the market, with a High Tech, ACE and Ram version’s available.

Through Echlin, the NAPPA group introduced the ASNU to their NAPPA Approved Service Workshops.

Adam Witchie of Echlin International took control of marketing of marketing ASNU in South America. When the Echlin organization was broken up and sold off, Adam joined USA Switch and continued marketing ASNU in South America.