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Building a flow bench #765600
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Several years ago I purchased a home made Audie flow bench. I used it for a couple of years but it only flowed at 10 inch of depression and would convert to 28 inches. I then purchased a JKM flow bench that would flow up to 400@28 inch depression. It worked great but very time consuming converting the manometers numbers to flow numbers and then calculating for weather factors. Last Winter I bought a set of plans off the www.flowbenchtech.com website and built my 3rd bench. If you want a fun project to work on check out Bruces website and check out other peoples projects. The plans cost 50.00 and tell you exactly what you will need. My bench will flow over 600@28 inches and is so consistent and easy to use its the only bench I would ever use again. I will try to post some pictures.

6123241-flowbench001.JPG (878 downloads)

1970 Duster
Edelbrock headed 408
5.984@112.52
422 Indy headed small block
5.982@112.56 mph
9.38@138.67


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Re: Building a flow bench [Re: pittsburghracer] #765601
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1970 Duster
Edelbrock headed 408
5.984@112.52
422 Indy headed small block
5.982@112.56 mph
9.38@138.67


Livin and lovin life one day at a time




Re: Building a flow bench [Re: pittsburghracer] #765602
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1970 Duster
Edelbrock headed 408
5.984@112.52
422 Indy headed small block
5.982@112.56 mph
9.38@138.67


Livin and lovin life one day at a time




Re: Building a flow bench [Re: pittsburghracer] #765603
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1970 Duster
Edelbrock headed 408
5.984@112.52
422 Indy headed small block
5.982@112.56 mph
9.38@138.67


Livin and lovin life one day at a time




Re: Building a flow bench [Re: pittsburghracer] #765604
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1970 Duster
Edelbrock headed 408
5.984@112.52
422 Indy headed small block
5.982@112.56 mph
9.38@138.67


Livin and lovin life one day at a time




Re: Building a flow bench [Re: pittsburghracer] #765605
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1970 Duster
Edelbrock headed 408
5.984@112.52
422 Indy headed small block
5.982@112.56 mph
9.38@138.67


Livin and lovin life one day at a time




Re: Building a flow bench [Re: pittsburghracer] #765606
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Nice project...I like it..
How much would you say you have in it parts and all?


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Re: Building a flow bench [Re: Bob_Coomer] #765607
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Nice project...I like it..
How much would you say you have in it parts and all?




Sorry I can't say for sure Bob because I keep bad records buying parts as I went along. I built it with 8 blower motors so I wouldn't have to update in the near future. Lots of guys build preparing for 8 and starting out with 4 motors. Then all you have to do is open the one cover, add the extra motors and wire them in. I went digital so I wouldn't have to mess with water manometers. Depression is set with an adjustable pod on two motors but just this week Bruce started selling an automatic motor controller so I ordered one to install. After porting four sets of heads and flowing them on this bench it set unused for a month. Last week I had another set to do so I checked it with a test orfice plate and it was only off by 1 cfm. Price of build is up to the builder ( probably for as little as 400.00) They even show you how to build manometers but the digital works great.


1970 Duster
Edelbrock headed 408
5.984@112.52
422 Indy headed small block
5.982@112.56 mph
9.38@138.67


Livin and lovin life one day at a time




Re: Building a flow bench [Re: Bob_Coomer] #765608
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Nice project...I like it..
How much would you say you have in it parts and all?




I was wondering the same thing....

Re: Building a flow bench [Re: pittsburghracer] #765609
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Great project and beautiful work. My brother ran the flow room for International Harvester for many years and he built is own flow bench from scratch. No digital stuff back then. He used an inclined monometer and 4 vacuum cleaner motors. He would flow anything I wanted - as long as I made the adaptor.


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Re: Building a flow bench [Re: Crizila] #765610
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My good friend and head guru has a homemade bench and uses the Audie stuff. We have flowed the same heads on a superflow 110 and 600 and been within 1% EVERY time.

I can see where it is very rewarding to build it yourself!

Re: Building a flow bench [Re: Crizila] #765611
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Thanks for the comments guys. I don't really enjoy working with wood for lack of the proper tools but this project was a lot of fun. After using other flow benches I knew exactly how I wanted this one set up. A lot of thanks go to the guys on the flow bench forum. Those guys are nuts about air flow. Check out their site sometime and look around. They started a new website with a new server but there is a link to it on the old site.


1970 Duster
Edelbrock headed 408
5.984@112.52
422 Indy headed small block
5.982@112.56 mph
9.38@138.67


Livin and lovin life one day at a time




Re: Building a flow bench [Re: pittsburghracer] #765612
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We made our own bench some years ago with 9 motors(1100w each), you can see the lights dim when you turn on full steam
no electronics just manometers

6124571-mindre1.JPG (810 downloads)

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Re: Building a flow bench [Re: mafo] #765613
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looks good!!! Nothing like doing it yourself.


1970 Duster
Edelbrock headed 408
5.984@112.52
422 Indy headed small block
5.982@112.56 mph
9.38@138.67


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