Interesting Exhaust Dynamics?
Interesting Exhaust Dynamics?
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Hiya
Anyone got any views on this?
We have a 2.0 ltre supercharged engine producing 0.35 bar of boost pressure.
On the dyno we are seeing an exhaust back pressure of 0.5bar before the cat (a blocked cat is suspected), but what is interesting is that the back pressure measured at any point along the exhaust system after the cat is -0.2 bar depression/vacuum.
I know that it's possible to create a depression in the exhaust by placing the tail pipe in a low pressure location when the car is moving at speed, but this is static on the dyno.
Anyone got any idea what may be causing this please?
Anyone got any views on this?
We have a 2.0 ltre supercharged engine producing 0.35 bar of boost pressure.
On the dyno we are seeing an exhaust back pressure of 0.5bar before the cat (a blocked cat is suspected), but what is interesting is that the back pressure measured at any point along the exhaust system after the cat is -0.2 bar depression/vacuum.
I know that it's possible to create a depression in the exhaust by placing the tail pipe in a low pressure location when the car is moving at speed, but this is static on the dyno.
Anyone got any idea what may be causing this please?





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Deffo an error somewhere. Otherwise air would be rushing into both ends of the exhaust system.
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One way of thinking about it is that when that moving gas comes out the end of the pipe and impacts the static surrounding gas, the pressure needed to stop that gas is the 0.2 bar you are missing.
Another thing you can do is orient your probe such that the open end directly faces the oncoming gas. This should, mostly at least, convert the kinetic portion to pressure and you read the total energy in pressure. This would give you the pressure you are expecting.
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Still, it sounded like a good technical answer.
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