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That is some pretty serious monitoring equipment you have there Ronni.

It looks like you have a range of skills that will see you get the optimum out of that RB :P

If you are into data acquisition, could I suggest looking at pressure within the exhaust manifold (ie. backpressure), and exhaust temps pre-turbine. Temperature drop across the turbine is an area of interest, and backpressure has been a topic of discussion over some time.

If you have the gear and time to work on those two, you'd be streets ahead of most of us.

cheers

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Its not THAT serious.. its basicly just a PLC... You can hook up every sort of sensor to that. And get it displayed. When making the program you can designs the layout of the screen, which buttons are thouch and so on. You can have multiple pages which will display what you want.

You can also do stuff like max hold, min hold, average reading, reset etc. I will use the PLC as a turbo timer also, as it will read revs on the turbo. So can set at which turbo revs i will shut down engine.

I cant program PLC that good at all, but have a friend who will help with the setup. He is a really bad as to this. I just nod my head and say oooh thats right, and look like I understand when he shows me stuff. hehe.

Will but backpressures on the list.

All exhaust temp readings will be pre turbo. one sensor in each runner, just at the start of the manifold.

The main issue here is just I dont have the time for it all at once... :-( Could use 48 hours a day. Just finished my 3rd mayer school stay, next is my final exam, then there will be more time, and money as Im only and apprentice now.

Cheers.

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