Swamp's Diesel Performance

Competition Parts For Your Diesel. Swamps Diesel Performance has been in the diesel performance industry for 10+ years. Unmatched quality and service is the staple of our company.

Services

One-stop diesel service shop for your diesel truck. Whether your remaining relatively stock, or looking to push your truck to the maximum then we are available to assist you in all your diesel needs.

Combining over 10+ years of unparalleled diesel performance service, Swamp’s Diesel Performance is proud to carry the top products in the industry. We provide phenomenal technical support on our vast array of items, along with detailed instructions and support for installation.

Common Services

• Air intake and filter
• Alternator
• A/C delete pulley
• Battery and charger/booster, if needed
• Cooling Fan
• Data Acquisition (GPS-6000)
• Dyno cart
• Engine mounts
• Engine sensor
• Engine serpentine belt
• Engine wiring harness
• Exhaust down pipe
• Exhaust manifolds drilled & tapped for pyrometer
• Flywheel
• Fuel lines and fittings for the feed and return
• Fuel pump & 2-micron filter
• Fuel pressure regulator
• Idler and tensioner pulleys
• Injector driver
• Intercooler
• Power steering pump
• PCM/ECM
• Radiator and engine coolant
• Starter
• TCM
• Throttle control (accelerator pedal)

Machining Services

We offer many automotive and custom machining services, but aren’t limited to:

• Block Surfacing
• Cylinder Boring
• Cylinder Sleeving
• Cylinder Bore Diamond Honing
• Machining Main Registers & Caps
• Line Boring
• Cylinder Head Surfacing
• Fire-Ringing and O-Ringing
• Valve Grinding
• Hardened Valve Seat Installation
• Valve Seat Cutting (Single or Multi-Angle)
• Valve Guide Installation
• Magna-Flux & Zyglo Crack Testing

Custom Machining Service

The sky is the limit with our state-of-the-art CNC machining center and CAD design software; we can bring your dreams to life! Whether you have a blueprint for a bracket to get that pesky alternator to fit under the hood, or you want your own one-off intake manifold, we have the technology to make it happen, at a price that will keep you on budget.

Engine Dyno

Swamp’s Diesel uses a Froude-Hoffman / Go-Power DT-3000 S/G water brake engine dynometer unit. This dyno uses the resistance created by pressurized water pumped through a vane/stator and rotor assembly to resist the engine’s torque. The energy produced by the engine is absorbed into the water and converted to heat. A load cell (strain gauge) on the dyno measures the torque output, a speed sensor measures the RPM; horsepower is then calculated using the formula HP = (TQ x RPM)/5252.

Our dyno is capable of absorbing up to 3000 lb/ft of torque, meaning that at full load (resistance provided to the engine), an engine with this much torque can be held at a steady RPM and prevented from accelerating, and an engine with less torque can be pulled all the way down and completely stalled if so desired. The amount of load is controlled by varying the flow of water into the dyno, by our dyno operator. Our dyno is high speed balanced to 6000 rpm.

Our dyno test cell is a 9′ x 16′ room. It has a metal workbench on one end by the window, four 1250 CFM exhaust fans on the exterior wall, and a 5000+ CFM blower on the roof for fresh air. Air velocity from the blower into the dyno room is 60 MPH 3′ from the vent. The intake air is filtered through six 2′ x 3′ flat panel filters, such as are used in your home HVAC system. Air pressure in the cell is .02 in/Hg higher than ambient with the blower on, and the temperature stays within 2*-4* of ambient during pulls. The walls are 5/8” fire-rated drywall covered with 26 gauge galvanized sheet metal on the inside, 3-1/2” of fiberglass insulation in the walls and 1” thick sound absorbing panels on the outside walls, and we have a Kidde dry CO2 fire extinguisher system installed in the cell with a nozzle on each side of the engine. Since the CO2 is clean (compared to a dry-chemical system) it can also be used to shut down a runaway engine.

A 3′ x 4′ laminated tempered safety glass window at the control station gives good visibility into the cell, although the radiator in front of the engine limits the view of the engine. A video camera in the cell allows viewing the engine during runs on a monitor at the control station, and allows recording dyno runs, but the sound level (over 110 dB at WOT) overwhelms the microphone so there isn’t much audio. The down pipe and exhaust pipe in the cell is wrapped with DEI heat wrap and then it runs outside to a 6” stack about 20′ high (above the building roof line). No one is allowed in the cell during dyno runs.

We are of the opinion that the normal or standard dyno correction factors are only applicable to naturally aspirated gasoline engines, and are completely unsuited to turbocharged diesel engines. Therefore we do not apply any corrections to our data. We do record temperature, pressure and humidity and can supply you with that data if you want to apply correction factors. Our elevation is 610′ above MSL. We check the calibration of the dyno’s torque strain gauge at regular intervals to ensure accurate torque readings, consistent with SAE J1349 Dyno Test Standards, and the HP is calculated from torque and RPM, so you can be assured of accurate dyno numbers.