Horse Power
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Horse Power
I am doing some equations from class on my car
Brake Specific Air/Fuel Consumption
Thermal Efficiency
100% Volumetric efficiency and all that kind of stuff.
What horse power and Volumetric efficiency is my Series 2 running at cruise control 55mph?
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Brake Specific Air/Fuel Consumption
Thermal Efficiency
100% Volumetric efficiency and all that kind of stuff.
What horse power and Volumetric efficiency is my Series 2 running at cruise control 55mph?
Thank you
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That'* a good question. Had my aeroforce set to HP and I seem to remember it saying less then 50hp when cruising on the highway. Not perfect by any means, but a good general number.
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I'll go ahead and say thats around 20% VE seeing as we learned the scale for newer cars to be 15-20 at idle and 115 at wot. so our engines need about 8.154grams of fuel per minute per cylinder. Do you know how to find how many pulses per minute the injectors need to do for that?
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Tell me if this sounds right.
I'm running at ~1600rpm @ 55mph
1600/60 seconds=26.67rps
26.67/6 cyl=4.457rps/cyl
So the 4.457 should equal my pulses per second?
I'm running at ~1600rpm @ 55mph
1600/60 seconds=26.67rps
26.67/6 cyl=4.457rps/cyl
So the 4.457 should equal my pulses per second?
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I don't think that'* right. Should be.
1600/60=26.67/4=6.67/6=1.11
It'* the number of strokes. Each cylinder fires once per 4 strokes. I think this is right.
1600/60=26.67/4=6.67/6=1.11
It'* the number of strokes. Each cylinder fires once per 4 strokes. I think this is right.