Re: Dyno Results Available

[Jim Buck <vwpride@mixi.net>]

Nice charts Brett.  Fat torque and hp curves.  Time to put in the Quaife and go
looking for 5.0's.

Jim

Brett Van Sprewenburg wrote:

> Here's my dyno results from last Saturday.  The coast down measurement
> registered 18-20% drive train loss, so that puts my rough crank HP
> at the low end of what I expected, which is 160hp...not a bad thing
> really.  I am also fairly confident that the HP and torque will improve
> greatly when the engine stops running out of fuel at around 6000rpms. :)
> Fuel enrichment devices needs finishing!!!  Maybe I should just go
> full Motoronic...an argument for another day perhaps...
>
> The engine is a torque beast (IMHO) and makes more then 100 ft-lbs
> from 2150 rpms until 6600 rpms.  More then 120 ft-lbs from 3950 until
> the HP peak at 5750.  Like I said before, HP is for bragging (which
> is important, don't get me wrong :}) but torque wins races baby.
>
> I'll punch the numbers into a spreadsheet and graph them together,
>
> Let me know what you guys think.
>
> HP graph:  http://www.netacc.net/~brett/brett-hp.jpg
> Torque graph: http://www.netacc.net/~brett/brett-torque.jpg
>
> ==Brett
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