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Originally Posted by 572Camaro
In the 1980’s, I was a vibration engineer and using vibration analysis equipment, I diagnosed wear in bearings, pump/motor misalignment, imbalance, journal bearing wear, etc.
All in nuclear power plants.
COULD this be a technology useful for hot rods?
I think I could detect things like a weak cylinder, valvetrain wear, imbalances, A/C compressor bearing wear, etc.
Basically use an accelerometer mounted at specific points on an engine, hold rpm steady, and take readings. Then perform an FFT algorithm on an iPad, and read the frequency spectrum.
COULD IT WORK?
HAS IT EVER BEEN DONE?
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I've used sound analyzer app on my phone to find frequencies that guided me towards the problem areas in my car. It has a spectrum analyzer setting, would mount my phone where I was feeling the vibration and more or less used some math and deductive reasoning to help figure out what the noise's source. Could also move the phone around and watch the levels to know if I was getting closer or farther away from the source.
Your skillset could really help someone out when it comes to pointing directly at a known issue with no resolve, but unsure how / if it could be marketable if that's what you're shooting for? Possibly in a race scenario with a well backed team?