Homemade Flow Bench
I m with oj on this one.
Homemade flow bench. This micro flow bench is the most basic easiest to build flow bench using the flow performance kit fp2 0bs. Or use a magnehelic as oj mentioned. It is and has been for decades an invaluable tool to any one interested in increasing the performance of combustion engines.
We had a nice superflow bench at epa and while it was cool and all it really is just a big shop vac and an incline manometer which you can make easily. With high tech electronic sensors and a patented state of the art air flow metering element effective flow rate measurements can now be made with nothing more than an average shop vac for an air source. Diy flowbench design diy flowbench design and construction what s a flowbench.
Make sure your bench is sealed so no leakage takes place except through the test piece. Start with a reading on the manometer with the plate completely blocked off for a zero flow depression test. Open the 5 cfm orifice.
Build a working flow bench in minutes. Typically the pressure drop across the component is held constant 28 inches of water or about 1 psi is a common standard pressure for cylinder heads and the air flow is measured. Flow performance flow bench kits are capable of test pressures exceeding 300 wc.
This flow bench is uncalibrated and is only useful for comparing your own. Flow performance flow bench kits are a perfect core for building a high performance high power professional flow bench. Establishing the numbers step 1.
A flowbench or air flow bench is a tool to measure the air flow capabilities of anything that s required to do this. This flow bench will use blower motors scavenged from household vacuum cleaners to generate the airflow necessary for testing. Home made flow bench worth it.
Flow benches can be used to measure the air flow through various items in your engine such as cylinder heads or filters. Flow benches can teach you a lot but as mentioned they don t show hp.