Truck parts Dynamometer.

[Matthew Lamari]

At 10:12 AM 8/23/96 +1000, you wrote:
>> Someone on the hotrod list a long time ago suggested putting a hall effect 
>> type sensor at the both ends of the driveshaft and measuring how much it 
>> twists.
>
>How about mounting the engine with some sort of spring loaded engine
>mounts and measure the deflection under load. Perhaps even a strain
>guage on the standard engine mounts would work?
>
>The Nissan Skyline GTR in Japan has a torque guage on the dash.. I'll
>try to find out how it works. (Probably done somewhere in the highly
>complex transmission)
>

I thought that torque guage was done from pre-knowledge of the car's
characteristics in the computer.  I mean, I think I saw it (wavy graph?)
that just shows revs vs. manifold pressure to the torque they rated the
engine to themselves.

I heard about this a while back.


Matthew.