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- From: hinz@bonfire (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987)
- Subject: Re: DIY compression meter
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- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 10:17:31 GMT
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- eur@dutncp2.tn.tudelft.nl (Eur van Andel) writes:
- : Dear netters
- :
- : I thought of making a compression meter by brazing a copper tube
- : to an old sparkplug and connect it to a simple manometer.
- :
- : Will this work? Should I make a one-way valve in the tube?
- : Will I measure the pressure in the cylinder, or in the whole
- : of cylinder, plug and tube?
- :
- keep in mind that you are actually measuring a volumetric ratio with a
- compression tester. If your tubing is too large of diameter or to long,
- you will skew the results to show lower than actual compression. Say,
- for instance, you have a 2 litre, 4 cyl. engine, with a 10:1 compression
- ratio. Each cyl. has 500cc displacement at BDC, and 50cc volume at
- TDC. if you add, say, 10cc worth of tubing capacity, you have an error
- of 20%. (No flames if I got the math wrong, it's 05:16 and I haven't slept
- in 30 hours).
-
- Note that the error would be consistant, but if you were looking for absolute
- PSI or compression numbers, you would always see low ##'s. Also note that
- CONSISTANCY between cylinders is more important than the absolute number.
- Then again, perhaps they tell us that because of the inherent inaccuracies
- possible with compression gagues???
-
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- Dave Hinz - Opinions expressed are mine, not my employer's. Obviously.
- SAAB - you get what you pay for; you pay for what you get.
- hinz@picard.med.ge.com
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