Why Use Fluidampr's Harmonic Fluid Damper?
The Invisible Enemy of your engine and the most overlooked protector of your engine, the harmonic damper. Fluidampr can increase torque, reduce harmonics, and lengthen the life of your engine.
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Why Use Fluidampr's Harmonic Fluid Damper?
The Fluid Damper Problem:
The stock harmonic damper on the majority of all personal vehicles and pick-up trucks is an elastomer (rubber) damper. Why? Because they are cheap to manufacture and usually do a marginal but adequate job of protecting your engine on stock applications under normal operating parameters; however, they are inadequate if performance enhancements are made to your engine.
Elastomer dampers are referred to as “tuned or frequency sensitive” devices, designed to function throughout only predetermined vibration frequency bandwidths associated with the RPM, torque and horsepower engineered for a particular engine application. The tuned or frequency sensitive stock dampers rely on a specific durometer of elastomer (rubber) to absorb the harmonic vibrations produced by the engine and are limited to the bandwidth of vibration frequencies that the particular elastomer can absorb.
The stock or aftermarket elastomer damper cannot self tune beyond the bandwidth that it is designed for. When performance enhancements are made or added to a stock engine to increase horsepower and torque, whether for commercial, pleasure, or competition, the increase in performance overworks the stock damper because of its inherent inability to self tune to the increased harmonic vibration generated, resulting in diminished engine protection.
The reason the damper fails is that when the elastomer damper is overworked trying to compensate for the performance enhancements, excessive heat is generated which results in the rubber becoming hard and cracking, eventually causing the inertia ring to start slipping and risking the dangerous situation of the damper coming apart.
These pictures of stock elastomer dampers show the early stages of the elastomer ring starting to break down and separate from the heat drying out the rubber. This is the first warning sign that the stock or aftermarket elastomer damper has greatly diminished ability to protect your engine and failure is imminent, followed by engine damage or failure.
The Fluid Damper Solution
Fluidampr Performance Dampers for Gas and Diesel Engines are manufactured using viscous silicone fluids to shear harmful harmonic vibrations from gas and diesel engines.
Fluidampr’s design incorporates a totally sealed laser welded housing encasing the precision machined and balanced inertia ring. The viscous silicone fluid allows the inertia ring to shear the harmonic vibrations from the engine, regardless of performance enhancements (horsepower, rpm & torque) that have been made to the engine.
This is possible because Fluidamprs are frequency insensitive devises that self tune to the exact frequency bandwidth of the engine harmonics at any given range, unlike stock tuned dampers. This is why it is of the utmost importance to upgrade to a Fluidampr Performance Damper for Gas and Diesel Engines when making performance enhancements to your gas or diesel engines. When adding or using a programmer with your diesel engine it is critically important not to over look one of the most important parts of your engine, the damper.
The Fluidampr will self tune to the harmonics of your engine every time you select a new performance setting. Having the ability to tune your engine at your finger tips if your engine is not equipped with a Fluidampr Performance Damper is like playing “Russian Roulette” with your engine. Fluidampr is the performance product line of Vibratech TVD, the original inventor of viscous type dampers in 1946 and has continued their tradition of designing and manufacturing their superior line of viscous dampers in the U.S.A. Viscous dampers were designed for heavy-duty diesel applications because elastomer (rubber) dampers couldn’t and still can’t stand up to the punishment of diesel engines. 90% of all over-the road heavy-duty diesel engines use a viscous type damper to protect their engines.
In the early 80’s, performance gas engine builders requested a viscous damper to be designed for their applications thus the product name Fluidampr became the first choice of performance engine builders and after 60 years Vibratech TVD / Fluidampr still remains the first choice of major OEM diesel engine and gas performance engine builders. Vibratech TVD/Fluidampr is the only company that manufactures dampers for both performance and industrial heavy duty applications.
Fluidampr is the only viscous damper SFI certified for diesel engines. Fluidampr viscous dampers never have to be tuned or rebuilt and in performance applications will never wear out. Be leery of damper manufactures that state their “damper should be rebuilt or tuned”. This should be your first clue that if the damper needs to be rebuilt or tuned then it isn’t adequately protecting your engine. “It’s your investment”- protect it with the best! Use Fluidampr performance dampers for gas and diesel applications.
Fluidampr controls torsional vibrations up to 80% better than a stock damper.
Each time the air/fuel mixture TORSIONAL VIBRATION inside a cylinder is ignited, the combustion event creates a torque spike that is applied to the crankshaft through the pistons and rods.
This torque spike is so severe that it not only turns the crankshaft, it actually twists the crankshaft ahead of its normal rotation and then the crankshaft rebounds.
This twisting action is known as torsional vibration. When these torque spikes get into phase with the natural frequency of the crankshaft assembly in the engine, critical torsional harmonic vibrations occur that are destructive to the bearings and crankshaft.
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