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Dual Blowby's Installed at BMW in Europe
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The most common checks for Piston Ring sealing are cranking compression and leak down. Both of these can falsely indicate a problem if a small amount of debris is preventing a ring from setting in the ring lands correctly or holding open a valve. The next check you do could show everything is fine. You also do not get a real measure of how well this engine seals up compared to that last engine you built. Neither of these check Piston Ring Sealing while the engine is running. Now with Performance Trends' affordable Blowby Sensor, you can actually measure CFM of blowby during your dyno tests.
Hook up the blowby sensor to your valve cover following the instructions with your sensor. (Click here for a copy of these instructions.) Hook up the electrical lead to one of Performance Trends' DataMite data loggers. Pick the built in Blowby Sensor calibration for your range of sensor and you're ready to test measure the CFM of blowby from your engine at all engine RPMs. Now you can get a history of your engine's blowby levels. For example: last year you were running 3.3 CFM at 4000 and 3.7 CFM at 7000 RPM. This year with your new boring technique, you're down to 2.2 CFM at 4000 and 2.3 CFM at 7000. Now you can really measure if you are going in the right direction.
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You can even measure blowby on small karting motors, with our new very low 0.3 CFM range sensor. See graph below of data recorded with our Dyno DataMite III logger testing a new clone motor with good ring sealing. Single cylinder motors create tremendous pulsations on the crankcase. To dampen out these pulsations for accurate measurements, you need to place a plenum in the line between the motor and the blowby sensor. See diagram below.
This hand held device lets you display the blowby as either CFM (cubic feet per minute), LPS (liters/second) or LPM (liters/min) without need of a data logger. You can also record blowby for as little as a few seconds or for up to 20 minutes. Then you can playback your data on the Recorder, or download to the free Blowby Analyzer software for graphing, printing, saving, etc.
Blowby Recorder
Blowby Logger's main features include:
Blowby Data Logger Program
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Newest Features In late 2013 we added a feature to the logger to record RPM data with the blowby data. Now you can see the RPM where a particular blowby reading was obtained. See screen below. The black line on the graph is the RPM data, which is also included in the data list to the right of the blowby CFM readings.
2013 Blowby Data Logger Program with RPM Data
A user of our Blowby Sensor and Mini Logger sent us some data they recorded when running a 331 SB Ford on their DTS dyno. The DTS dyno did not have any spare channels, so the separate logger was the obvious fix. The data is for 3 back-to-back runs, about 2 minutes of recording time. It shows good repeatability, and how handy it is to have a separate logger recording both blowby and RPM. In the highlighted row in the list it shows 2.80 CFM at 6951 RPM at 52.9 seconds into the data set. This data could be exported to Notepad for more analysis if needed.
Recording 116 seconds of data on 3 Consecutive DTS Dyno Runs (one large segment) on 331 cid Ford
Blowby Recorder Harness for RPM
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Magnetic RPM Sensor for Blowby Recorder
Reflective RPM Sensor for Blowby Recorder DT3-RPMR
12 volt Tach Signal RPM Input DMC-BLRT
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Customers frequently ask what are the typical Blowby CFM flows they should expect from their engines, and what is too high. The equations in the table below should let you make this VERY APPROXIMATE estimate. The actual blowby level and acceptable blowby limits will vary greatly between different engine manufacturers and engine applications.
Application | Equation for Typical Blowby | Equation for Blowby Suggesting Rebuild |
Used Motor, "workhorse vehicle" | .01 x Peak Tq (ft lbs) | .02 x Peak Tq (ft lbs) |
Modern production motor | .005 x Peak Tq (ft lbs) | .015 x Peak Tq (ft lbs) |
"Tight" racing motor | .0025 x Peak Tq (ft lbs) | .0075 x Peak Tq (ft lbs) |
For example, if you have a modern production vehicle (naturally aspirated, turbocharged, most anything) which has an advertised peak torque of 300 ft lbs, it will likely produce about 1.5 CFM of blowby (300 x .005 = 1.5). You would consider the blowby high, indicating the rings may be bad if the blowby was over 4.5 CFM (300 x .015 = 4.5 CFM).
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