[Land-speed] Fuel Injector testing

[drmayf]

Well, diesel, while a petroleum product, isn't all that similar.  Has 
twice the molecular weight, has about 65 to 1 less vapor pressure,  
higher density, and about 5 times more viscose etc.   Plus, then I would 
have to clean the stuff out of everything.   I keep thinking of a 
refrigerant type fluid, but haven't looked. As to asking, I might do 
that but the research is a learning process for me and I am always 
trying to learn rather than just jumping in and implementing. I always 
learn something even if it is wrong most of the time, lol...

mayf
Skip Higginbotham wrote:

> Mayf,
> Why not call one of the fuel injection companies and see what they 
> use? I think diesel would work. Not so volatile.
> Skip
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> At 08:00 AM 5/8/2010, drmayf wrote:
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>> Sitting here having a cuppa and was thinking about flow testing EFI 
>> injectors.   With the hardware in the loop simulator I have to test 
>> my brain box tunes I could also test the injectors for flow at all 
>> the scenarios likely to be encountered on a run down the white dyno.  
>> But, I am a bit leery of spraying gasoline as a working fluid. Anyone 
>> know of a fluid that is similar to gasoline properties without being 
>> combustible
>> or harming the injectors?   I would also want to use the same fuel 
>> pump and pressure regulator as well so the fluid would have to be 
>> harmless.
>> Any chemists out there?
>>
>> mayf