Establishing the numbers step 1.
Building a homemade flow bench.
I have calibrated this bench using my machine shop s superflow as the standard.
Owning a flow bench has become easier cheaper and a lot more versatile with kits that are available from flow performance.
Flow is not everything.
The flow bench hearing is as much a tool as anything and getting the correct port velocity so it can make the turn.
Start with a reading on the manometer with the plate completely blocked off for a zero flow depression test.
I have a head flowed by them then put the head on my bench and adjust factors in the calculating tables to get the same readings.
To flow a head you.
It is and has been for decades an invaluable tool to any one interested in increasing the performance of combustion engines.
Open the 5 cfm orifice.
2007 sbn a drag week winner first only sbn a car in the 9 s till 2012.
A flowbench or air flow bench is a tool to measure the air flow capabilities of anything that s required to do this.
The flow bench is used as a tool for measuring and quantifying modifications and improvements made to items such as automotive cylinder heads and carburettors by detecting air flow improvements.
Building a motor controller severely increases the complexity of the project but gives more possibilities for convenient automated testing and more importantly consistency.
Diy flowbench design diy flowbench design and construction what s a flowbench.
Make the port right and the flow is the flow.
Generally most diy flow benches modify flow rate by using a manual valving system.
This micro flow bench is the most basic easiest to build flow bench using the flow performance kit fp2 0bs.
I regularly have the shop check the flow on one port of a customer s head just to make sure nothing has changed.