... Super Flow has all the accessories you mentioned fully available (due to NASCAR apps.) so things have been extremely well sorted out. Dan Whitfield...
... Ian, Any experience with brands/capabilities you'd like to share? How about cost? I was attracted to the diy route as adding standard pc and generic ...
... Local guy, company name is Dynamic Test Systems, run by a character named Alan Murphy. He does some big installations in the US, but something this size...
Ian
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Mar 1, 2008 10:34 pm
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Chris, Will the Dynojet dyno actually do a step test? I was under the impression that the brake will only act as a "retarder". I'm also told that the dynojet ...
Chris, Well, aside from the hassles of possibly having to remove & reinstall the engine for certain changes, I would think that a chassis dyno would offer more...
Ian, I think that given enough hours of testing and changes that require cases to come apart & such, I completely agree with you. For fine tuning or minor...
I guess my take is.... that it depends on the engine type... some engines you can do cam swaps without much work with the engine in the frame, others require...
... Some less reputable dyno manufacturers will set a dyno up to read whatever the customer wants, my engine guy has lost customers because of it, yet...
Ian
iwd@...
Mar 2, 2008 12:30 pm
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I'm told that Land & Sea advertises that their dyno can be set up by the operator to read Superflow, DynoJet , Factory Pro or any other hp they want. I'm not...
... And the customer gets to take the print out to show his friends, good luck to them. ... OK, so I exaggerated a little for clarity. On my 750-V8, a needle...
Ian
iwd@...
Mar 2, 2008 10:30 pm
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Oh my yes... I am told that some (many..?) Harley shops that had dyno's got rid of them... just because they would bolt on all kinds of aftermarket bits, then...
At this point I see a chassis dyno being a lot more convenient during development, especially since we will have more engines then chassis at first. I am...
Chris C, I had just filed a quick response to this subject and have more to add especially to your questions but I can't type anymore today although I can talk...
http://www.dynesystems.com/what-is-a-dynamometer.htm Interesting info page. Chris Cosentino Cosentino Engineering 812 Jersey Ave. 3rd Floor. Jersey City, NJ...
... Water brakes are more stable, eddy current do wander a bit as they heat up, you just need a good control unit. The authorities are clamping down on cooling...
Ian
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Mar 2, 2008 11:58 pm
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... Yes it is. I can't agree with them on control stability water brake vs. eddy current, my experience has been opposite. Cheers IAN See...
Ian
iwd@...
Mar 3, 2008 12:02 am
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... Please forgive me for posting on this again, but it's a very sensitive issue for me. I would humbly like to point out that this type of exaggeration...
Ron, ... the track, like I said, my "puny" engine pulled like a freight train against those guys with those big numbers... there were many guys tying to get a ...
... my experience has been opposite. Were the drive rollers very heavy on the eddy current brakes in question? If so, that would explain it. Regards, Derek ...
Sorry to break in with a new direction, but my hopes for a dyno are simpler yet. I want to use the data logger of my wide band O2 sensor to record time and...
... Some racecars read tail-shaft torque in real time, which combined with the tail-shaft rpm, gives real time power measurement. The trouble with a motorcycle...
Ian
iwd@...
Mar 3, 2008 5:51 am
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... development, especially since we will have more engines then chassis at first. From my perspective I don't see why I wouldn't be able to extract the ...
... Probably 95% of those papers are worthless. The SAE runs for profit, and the people who write papers for them will split something up into as many papers...
... I had a copy of this in my "radiator" file that Scott posted 2 May 1994 in rec.autos.tech. This is a later version; the only hit Google returned, in fact....
... A friend of mine has a radio-control helicopter. I don't know what technology the battery packs are based on, but they are smoking hot (literally) at the...
... If you do a web search you'll find a dozen companies selling analog to USB convertor dongles - they measure 0-5 or 0-12 volts, do 10 or 12 bit A/D...
... The installation manual for my Clayton dyno shows the absorber hooked to the water mains and hot water going down the drain. However, Superflow recommends...
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