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On a 4-stroke twin overhead cam V8 engine, can someone tell me what causes a large 0.5 engine order torsional vibration?
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Is the vibration measured or predicted? If it's measured, then where? Is it only at the very low end of the rpm range?
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Camshaft grind errors
camshaft torsional stiffness problems
crankshaft torsional stiffness problems
block torsional stiffness problems
poor manifolding (this is the usual one), ie one cylinder gets a poor mixture or a poor charge.
camshaft out of balance
I think that's it. All save the last would be expected to get worse under load.
Cheers
Greg Locock
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The slippery part of the question is that it doesn't explicitly mention whether he's interested in factors related to the excitation of the vibration, or factors related to the response.
btw, is it common for torsional vibration to cause significant cylinder-to-cylinder performance differences? And when you say "camshaft out of balance," do you mean "balance" in the inertial sense of the word, or some other way?
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No, not performance differences, that is, the imep from each cylinder is identical. What happens is that the difference in stiffness cause a different delay for the impulse to reach the measuring point and this introduces a half order (and multiples) into the FFT. It is one of the main reasons why stiffer cranks/blocks sound better. The camshaft torsionals may be the same thing, but they also twist under the valve spring load, this produces a repeatable phase error between each cylinder, and ends up causing a similar response.
However, most times 1/2 order comes from regular differences in cyl pressure diagram caused by lousy intake or exhaust manifold design, or possible temperature effects. (why does the 5th cylinder in an I6 usually knock first etc).
Yes, camshaft 2 plane balance would be at half crankshaft speed. I don't know if it is significant, but worth checking.
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Cheers
Greg Locock
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I was going to guess that his question was more along the lines of "why is my 0.5 order response so high," and I was going to suggest that perhaps he was measuring a rolling-mode (rigid body) oscillation of the crankshaft, which could potentially be related to intentionally reduced rotating assembly inertia (a guess about his engine configuration - lightened flywheel, etc, for racing)
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However, I have acquired a waterfall plot from an IRL engine (crank front to crank rear), and it shows a peak in the 0.5 order at around 9000 rpm.
Thanks for your answers so far.
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