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echo: oldcars
to: GERRY CALHOUN
from: JACK SCHWENDENER
date: 1997-05-22 10:52:00
subject: engine

GC> JS> don't think anybody ever got more than around 200 into a set of
GC> JS> Clayton 8" rollers (the only chassis dyno I remember .... ).
GC>Clayton was the "biggie" for chasis dynos but there were others. School I
Yup.
GC>went to had a Maxwell (if I remember right). They also had another one 
rom
GC>another company. The Maxwell was an odd system. Instead the usual
GC>mechanical or water brake, it used a large electric motoer through a ford
Yup, still use them today I believe ....
GC>horsepower to the rollers. The other onet hey had used a large disk brake
GC>(said to be off a tank) and simply measured torque applied.
It's actually pretty easy to make a (chain drive) motorcycle dyno with a
large truck disc brake ....
Jackson
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