Wondering what you guys are using, been looking at a flow performance setup, and performance trends offers a reasonable build it yourself setup also...any advice or input is welcome! Thanks! @pittsburghracer@PRH@yellow rose
The last shop I worked put of was looking to buy a flow bench because he didn’t by mine when I was selling it (I sold it like a dumbass...should have never sold it) and he decided to build one.
About an hour on the web and I found him a FlowData 700. Rick Blood made them and these are the top of the mark benches.
I’d tell you who it was made for but that would be name dropping and that makes some guys wet themselves.
Anyway, by the time it was said and done it was cheaper to buy a used bench than build one. Especially since the FlowData benches use a laminar flow element to measure air flow. And...it came with an adapter that allows you to test intake manifold plenum depth.
So I’d say to look around and see what you can find used.
EDIT: I’m old school and I want analog manometers on my bench, not digital. When I got good with the bench I paid more attention to what was happening with the manometers and the sound of the air than the flow numbers.
