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Rekin

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we used to run a few trucks on biodiesel. For work that can't be done by inhouse mechanics, the trucks generally go back to the manufacturer in my experience. Haven't ever seen a truck dyno though so would be interested to see one if they exist

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I was doing some vibration testing and they thought I might be interested in applying for a position in there dyno fascility at Vipac in South Melbourne area. They gave me a look and it was very impressive. They are setting up the facility that will test all jap imports that come into aus for emissions as part of compliance. They only put a rwd dyno in though??? Spend Millions on a fascility and skimp on $30g extra for 4wd dyno??

Also they have setup a dyno for testing trucks and busses. Dyno rollers are about 1.5-2m dia each. The pit is bigger than my house and they put a huge swimming pool on the roof for cooling. It was to be setup to do real time testing at all speed and distances. There is probably about 50 gas monitoring gauges in each room. Might be worth contacting them but I guess it maybe way to expensive for a uni project though. Only properly setup place in the southern hemisphere for that sort of testing if you have a big truck.

Are you talking a real truck or little desiel truck/van??? Torque output will most likely limit you to which dyno's you could use.

Rekin Grand Master

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thanks for the help guys,

The uni project is for a company planning on setting up a bio-diesel factory. So the company is supplying the truck & costs for all testing etc.

From research, 100% biodiesel creates a tiny loss of power and loss of fuel economy when compared to petro-diesel.

Want to prove this with our own dyno testing.

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so, just a thought, what is the load rating/max weight allowed on a dyno dynamics/mainline dyno? should be just wide enough from the ones i've seen (dunno measurements), main thing i would worry about is those Alu ramps that most dynos seem to use

go ask Ray at RE to be the test bed lol?

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Rekin Grand Master

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is this your final year project? who's supervising? i woulda thought ur lecturer would know where to go?

tried d.honnery or j.ghojel?

good luck with it!

nah not final year project, 3rd year semester project.

The person pulling the strings is the boss setting up the factory, so the lecturers have no clue in regards to dyno testing etc

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