Flow bench

[Mousehouse]

Monty I hope you don't mind me putting this in here. I have been trying to find some information on how to build my own for several weeks and thought I would share the information.

I found a couple of great sites that have information on how to build your own flow bench or buy a fair priced one.

Mercdog
www.mercdog.com/motorsports/68_flowbench_kits.html

Performance Trends EZ flow
www.performancetrends.com

I also have the plans from a 1993 Hot Rod or Car Craft article about how to build your own flow bench for under $1000. If you can find used vacuum motors & a few other parts you should be able to do it for under $600.

[Monty Mikho]

I dont mind at all. I wish more people would post cool stuff on here.. Thanks for the post..

[Chris Uratchko]

There's a flowbench forum called flowbenchs.com or something... the address is saved at work so I don't know it here.

LOTS of information on building a bench.

[Mousehouse]

Here is another forum on flow benches.

http://www.tractorsport.com/cgi-bin/forum/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi

[Mousehouse]

I am waiting on another set of plans to come in so I can compare the two benches. Depending on how many motors I use I will have under $500 in mine. The more motors the more it costs. I am doing 95% of it myself.

You could spend $1200-$1500 if you didn't want to do anything besides put it together.

It should be capable of flowing over 1000cfm (depending on how many motors I install). Not bad for $500.

I do need to find a couple of head fixtures and radius guides. I might look into making them myself as well.

Stay tuned. Pics to follow.

[Mousehouse]

Built the orifice disk and spacer ring tonight. Hopefully I will have most of the woodwork done by this weekend & have the cabinet part assembled. We will see how much time I have and how many people to help.

I found a couple of head fixtures but they aren't cheap. If I bought one with a few extra tubes I would have more in them then I would the flow bench. The radius guides are $50-$60 but I should be able to make them.

[Mousehouse]

Bought all of the wood and have most of the bench cut out. I will take a few pictures and try to post them.

So far everything has been pretty easy. We will see what it takes to put everything together.

[Mousehouse]

Here is a picture of my almost finished bench.

http://www.sharpjujitsu.com/images/IMG_6940-1.jpg

[Mousehouse]

Instead of using the performance trends stuff I went with another company called Flow Performance. They sell a digital box for flow benches that is pretty cool. Instead of having to read manometers the computer and digital box do all of the work for me.

I posted a picture of my bench above and it should be running as soon as I get the 220 plug installed.

I built the bench with a few electric tools and a little time. The design changed a few times but should give me a lot of data once it is operational.

If you want simple flow bench plans go to www.mercdog.com and I believe they are $30. I listed a useful flow bench forum in one of my previous emails. That site is very helpful if you need information on a bench or just have a question about one.

I have around $1200 in my bench but if someone wanted to use manometers then they could get the price in the $600-$700 range.