Re: NW Dyno Day Wrap Up

["andkat" <forgotit1@home.com>]

I thought Brian had 192 at the wheels with 197 lbs. ft. of torque?

Andy "gotta get the damn thing installed"  Murphy

-----Original Message-----
From: Shannon Fenton <sfenton@amazon.com>
To: Scirocco List <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Date: 11 December, 2000 12:10 PM
Subject: NW Dyno Day Wrap Up


>All,
>Dyno day went off without a hitch this weekend (my directions aside). We
had
>a good turnout, a total of 17 cars with 13 of those cars hopping on the
>dyno. Kelly ended up bringing a Viper GTS instead of his 1.8T Roc, as Kelly
>always does rides were given. Hope you were able to clean up the passenger
>seat Kelly. Riley and some canucks made the trek down which was awfully
>cool.
>
>I ended up putting down 136.9hp and 127 ft/lbs of torque. My A/F was kind
of
>fucked and I was running a little rich. I put the car back on the dyno
after
>everyone had left hoping to dial in the mixture a little better but I ended
>up richening it even more and I lost 6hp from a 1/2 turn on the mixture
>screw. 140hp would be entirely possible given more time to get the mix
>right. Plus the car was hot and probably heat soaked. She had a hard day
>with 5 total dyno runs. Unfortunately time ran out and I couldn't do a
coast
>down test to get a driveine loss figure. Anyone got any ideas what this is
>at the crank? So I walked away happy.
>
>Jared put his 1.8 16V on and turned in 120hp at the wheels if memory serves
>me correctly. Andy put his cracked out 1.9 8V on and turned in a impressive
>and deceiving 115hp. A VW Vortex MK2 also showed, he had 2.0 running
>Motronic with a Garrett chip and hit 120hp while running way too rich.
>Probably the most notable story of the day was Wings turbo. He turned in a
>112hp at 4K if memory serves me correctly, all the while from the minute he
>applied full throttle the A/F gauge went red. His car became so starved for
>fuel it bucked at 4.5-5K. The car was just barely spooling up when it would
>run dry. This not to mention the huge torque curve he got. Once he gets his
>fueling problems worked out his car will be scary fast. And much to the
char
>grin of certain Hecho En Mexico VW owners present it did not catch on fire,
>WAY TO GO WING!
>
>The Corrado guys had a good day also. BrianL with his Lysholm fed G60
turned
>in the highest HP number of the day (besides the Viper). He turned in a
>solid 183hp if memory serves me correctly. This very much impressed all the
>techs as did his flat torque curve. Didn't pay much attention to the
Corrado
>guys but I'm sure they walked away much like the Scirocco guys, going "we
>will do this again in 6 months!"
>
>There was also a SWEET B3 VR6 Passat with a Abt grill and full zender kit,
a
>very very clean Drivers Edition VR6 GTI who took the cake for best exhaust
>note with AndyM running second. Apparently I was the loudest heheh. Riley
>got the cake in my book for cleanest Mk2, with Jared stepping up for
biggest
>numbers while remaining somewhat stock.
>
>The shop we ran at was EXCELLENT, Carburetor Connection in Kirkland. I cant
>recommend these guys enough, they gave each car individual attention and
>pretty much as many runs as you really wanted, at least two. They would
>point out trouble areas and do some quick troubleshooting. For 10 bucks
>extra you could have A/F done, this was very helpful to diagnose some probs
>some cars were having. They were very helpful and always pleasant while
>trying to move a large amount of cars through the dyno while giving
>individual service to each car. After you're run you could have a one on
one
>with a tech to be sure you understood what exactly your chart and dyno info
>meant. They were very nice to allow 20 or so people to crowd into the shop
>and socialize while cars were be dynoed 2ft away. I was very impressed.
They
>also specialize in boosted cars and turbo tuning. They had a couple very
>sweet cars in the shop being serviced, a twin turbo RX7 and a what appeared
>to be a heavily modded MR2 Turbo, a Cobra with a 5.0 mustang lump etc. I
was
>also told that they offer a piggy back system for boosted cars that does
>something similar to the Apex-I but with none of its shortcomings. This is
>an in house and custom design tuned for your specific car and mods.
>Installed and tuned on the dyno the system runs in 1K to 1300 range if
>memory serves me correctly. I'm sure if these guys make it then it does
what
>they say. Contact Alex at the Carb Connection for more details,
>www.carbconn.com.
>
>I have movies of some peoples runs and as soon as I get some time will past
>them. We will defiantly do this again, probably in 6 months or so....now to
>buy a bunch of Ramen noodles and get some Shricks. 150hp here I come.
>
>
>Shannon
>www.scirocco16v.com
>
>
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