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Subject:Re: AFM Voltage Ratios
From:Jake de Villiers
Date:Sat, 4 Nov 2006 11:41:37 -0800

I don't think so Greg.

 Its a four-cycle engine: suck, squeeze, bang, blow takes two revolutions,
not to mention pumping losses, valve deposits, air filters and such.

On 11/4/06, Greg Potts <greg@pottsfamily.ca> wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> CFM to RPM is easy... a 2.1L engine pulls 2.1L of air per RPM.
>
> One liter = 0.0353146667 cubic feet. So a 2.1L engine at 1000 RPM
> pulls 74.1608 CFM
>
>
> Happy Trails,
>
> Greg Potts
> 1973/74/75/77/79 Westfakia "Bob the Tomato"
> www.pottsfamily.ca/westfakia
> www.busesofthecorn.com
>
> On 4-Nov-06, at 2:06 PM, Mike Bucchino wrote:
>
> >  You could bolt an AFM to a flowbench and run tests to determine these
> > voltage changes for a given CFM, but you'd need to know how CFM
> > equates to
> > the engine's rpm,
>

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Jake
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