damn butt dyno...is it lying? and header install thoughts...

[abatzis2 at hotmail.com (Michael Abatzis)]

> At 03:00 PM 10/8/2003, Michael Abatzis wrote:
> 
> >--what kind of numbers can i expect with: 2l 16v, euro intake, 1.8 
> >head, tt header/cat back, cis-e? i'm thinking around 120 at 
> the wheels.
> 
> Yeah, it should be somewhere around there, perhaps a little higher.
> 
> A stock 2.0 will put out 115-122 to the wheels.  I got no 
> power at all from 
> my Supersprint catless race header and exhaust (on the dyno), and my 
> butt-dyno told me that it was actually slower with the 1.8 head on it.
> 
> I assume you mean Euro Intake as in the 50mm runners, and not 
> Euro intake 
> "cam"... right?

whoops. i did mean "cam". also tt adjustable cam sprocket, i think it's
at 0 now though.

> 
> If everything is in 100% perfect running order on your car, 
> you should be 
> happy with anything over 123 or so... With a Euro Intake Cam, 
> I'd bump that 
> number to just over 130.
> 
> Keep us posted.  If you feel like doing a lot of driving, I'm 
> doing a local 
> (outside of Pittsburgh PA) dyno day on Saturday the 18th. :) Jason


love to. gotta work though. pay the bills, you know.

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Michael Abatzis
New Orleans!
'87 Scirocco 16v, sick right now... 
'88 Scircocc 16v, RIP
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