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Old Oct 4, 2007 | 04:01 PM
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Default Cross Ref Chart - vacuum to psi to kpa to bar

kpa still was not intuitive to me yet.

So I made up a chart showing the kpa equivalents for inches of vacuum and pounds of boost, to kpa. These I do know, and anybody with a vacuum/boost gauge will be familiar with those too.

Thought I'd share...

psi = -(vac) * .4192
kpa = psi * 6.895 + 100
bar = kpa / 100


Now those kpa rows in the various tuning tables mean something to me.

Here are the numbers for quick reference.

The spreadsheet is attached as a zip file, if you want to add finer rows.


Code:
Pressure Comparison Chart			
			
Inches
(vac)	PSI	kpa	bar
34.6 	-14.5 	0 	0.00 
30 	-12.6 	13 	0.13 
25 	-10.5 	28 	0.28 
20 	-8.4 	42 	0.42 
15 	-6.3 	57 	0.57 
10 	-4.2 	71 	0.71 
5 	-2.1 	86 	0.86 
0 	0 	100 	1.00 
	2 	114 	1.14 
	4 	128 	1.28 
	6 	141 	1.41 
	8 	155 	1.55 
	10 	169 	1.69 
	12 	183 	1.83 
	14 	197 	1.97 
	16 	210 	2.10 
	18 	224 	2.24 
	20 	238 	2.38 
	22 	252 	2.52 
	24 	265 	2.65
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Old Oct 7, 2007 | 12:26 AM
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Aw! But everything is easier with Metric.

100 kPa Normal Pressure
0 kPa Space!

Nice chart!
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Old Oct 14, 2007 | 09:04 PM
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Thanks!

It helped me to see that 30kpa and down is decel, 40-60 should be light-throttle, and 70+ is heavy throttle. Just to rough in the ranges...
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