Guys, (and gals), Joe, and myself, all have been working to put a flow test together on filters. There has been a few others that have some knowledge of our attempts and have sent us some items to assist in this as well.
Now in an attempt to do such, I want to say we are no where near ready to establish our runs but because of the excitement we have about this, I wanted to show you all what we have done so far and what we have. I am still needing to work out some bugs as the motor appears not to be up to the task fully, but I think this is giving us a peak as to some of the basic questions on flow.
Remember, the better the filtration, the lower the flow? Atleast that was my theory, so to somewhat establish this, here is what I did.
In this pic, we have the motor attached to a 302 ford oil pump. This is a 90vdc 1 and 1/2 hp variable speed motor. This assembly sits in a 5gal oil bucket.
Now, I attached a filter relocator kit with the standard 3/4 thread for a ford filter. Because of the speed bugs for the motor that I still have to resolve, I just setup each filter to show a 40lb pressure to the filter and see what the drop was across the filter. Now this isn't exactly what I had/have in mind on how to test but as before, motor needs some beefing up as it will blow the breaker when I put too much pressure to the bearing area by closing off the valve too tight.
The red hose is the output going back to the bucket.
Amsoils filter....
Mobil 1 filter....
K&N filter....
Fram filter....
Anyway, figured this might give you guys something to talk about...
bob
Now in an attempt to do such, I want to say we are no where near ready to establish our runs but because of the excitement we have about this, I wanted to show you all what we have done so far and what we have. I am still needing to work out some bugs as the motor appears not to be up to the task fully, but I think this is giving us a peak as to some of the basic questions on flow.
Remember, the better the filtration, the lower the flow? Atleast that was my theory, so to somewhat establish this, here is what I did.
In this pic, we have the motor attached to a 302 ford oil pump. This is a 90vdc 1 and 1/2 hp variable speed motor. This assembly sits in a 5gal oil bucket.
Now, I attached a filter relocator kit with the standard 3/4 thread for a ford filter. Because of the speed bugs for the motor that I still have to resolve, I just setup each filter to show a 40lb pressure to the filter and see what the drop was across the filter. Now this isn't exactly what I had/have in mind on how to test but as before, motor needs some beefing up as it will blow the breaker when I put too much pressure to the bearing area by closing off the valve too tight.
The red hose is the output going back to the bucket.
Amsoils filter....
Mobil 1 filter....
K&N filter....
Fram filter....
Anyway, figured this might give you guys something to talk about...
bob