Flow Meter

Anyone had luck creating/buying an industrial type flow meter and hooking it up to your data logger? For $1000 bucks I can think of a lot of things I could buy for the car than one piece of information....although I agree it's an important piece of information

Josh

 

I did for about $750.
Mine reads accurate from 2-20 gpm.
Its big & ugly...
I'll look for a link.

 

we manufacture a meter with #10 ends 2 gal min to 17 gal min
54 hz range @ 2 gpm 918 hz @ 17 gpm $600.00

 

Do you guys sell it? Does it have your typical 3 wire analog hook up?

 

It Has A 2 Wire Output Like Most Other Flow Meters. It Uses A Magnetic Pick Up That Produces Pulses Per Gallon

 

Ansleev,

Do you have a link or a picture?

 

Do most data loggers use the paddle style or turbine style?

 

mine is turbine

 

Wonder if this would work...

http://www.omega.com/ppt/pptsc.asp?ref=FTB1300_series&Nav=gref02

 

don't look like the gpm will work..you might ask someone smarter than me...but for over $600.00 you might ask the RPM guy what he sells his for and you know it will be rite not a second guess..Dave
www.myspace.com/daveloweswr

 

Racepak's used to be in the $1200 range.
Their advantage is that they are so small, which is nice when you want them on-board the vehicle.

Here's some food for thought;
There are all kinds of data we can be collecting, but we all want to know how much fuel is going into the motor. So in a typical roots setup with hat nozzles and ports. There is not just 1 location to put a flowmeter, unless you come out of the BV with only 1 hose, then thru the flowmeter then Y off to both the hat and port distribution blocks. And there is nothing wrong with this.
All I'm saying is your trying to minimize cost, as I was, and I replumbed in order to get by with only buying 1 flowmeter.

Some dyno shops use 3 meters in the forementioned roots setup, 1 in the hat line, 1 in the port line and 1 behind the high speed. This way you know your split above/below the blower, what/when your HS is doing and what the total GPM is going into your motor. 3x$1200