Why
Use Fluidampr's Harmonic Fluid Damper?
The Invisible Enemy of your engine
and the most overlooked protector of your engine, the harmonic damper.
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check pricing on Fluidampr products, please visit the
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Fluidampr Products and Fluidampr FAQs:
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.
KLM stocks a complete line of Fluidampr Harmonic fluid damper products. To
check pricing, visit the
Fluidampr Harmonic
fluid damper section in the KLM Store.
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