"Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief" (flynorcal)
02/24/2018 at 21:21 • Filed to: None
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"Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief" (flynorcal)
02/24/2018 at 21:21 • Filed to: None | 8
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I’ve never dyno’d a car before but it went more or less as how I imagined it. Put car on roller, snug it down, rev it out. The bits I didn’t know but the guy who ran the dyno (he’s the official and only guy who does NASCAR) was kind enough to explain how he was also measuring fuel and air intake to see how well the car was actually tuned - not just how much power it makes. He confirmed that my shifting just short of redline was totally correct. My butt dyno was on the money.
The shocking part is the results.
The final results are mind blowing.
This is a car I bought for $3,500 that’s 26 years old and maintained by people who use chopped lamp cords as stereo wire. It’s got an LT1 engine that left the factory a quarter of a century ago pushing 300hp and 340 lb pounds of torque. That’s measured at the crank.
Three pulls later the engine has AT THE WHEELS this:
296hp and 318tq. Hot damn. It’s an antique with attitude. Also since the kind guy running things explained the lines of the bottom of the graph to me and showed how fuel and air use were dead even that the car is, as he put it, perfectly tuned.
These were not at all the results I was expecting friends. Not one bit. I’m stoked.
JeepJeremy
> Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
02/24/2018 at 21:54 |
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Wow! You still pull 296hp out of that?!?! You should be super stoked!!!
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> JeepJeremy
02/24/2018 at 21:57 |
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Or put a different crank in and get super stroked....
....I’ll see myself out now. :p
Highlander-Datsuns are Forever
> Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
02/24/2018 at 21:57 |
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As I recall the LT1 was under rated, new LT1’s were dynoed around 330 hp.
Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
> Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
02/24/2018 at 21:58 |
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Sounds like there are some mods that you weren’t informed about.
smobgirl
> Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
02/24/2018 at 22:10 |
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Dammit, now I want one. I mean, I like every other Corvette, I can find a place in my heart for a C4 too.
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Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
> Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies
02/24/2018 at 22:12 |
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I was actually informed about an alarming number of them from the dubious meth friendly seller and assumed that was a good -30hp at least from shit bought on eBay coupled with the quality of the installation.
You couldn’t turn the stereo up behind moderate without the amp powering off which was connected with, quite seriously, a cut lamp or extension cord, and he told me about how he’d put a lot of time into the engine but he was most proud of the stereo he installed.
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Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
> JeepJeremy
02/24/2018 at 22:14 |
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Yeah but now when I catch a spec Miata I no longer get to pin it up to me being Just That Good.
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Flynorcal: pilot, offshore sailor, car racer and panty thief
> smobgirl
02/24/2018 at 22:34 |
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Come to California. I’ve got an extra helmet and I’m always happy to take a passenger or In your case, were you feeling it, be the passenger as I’m pretty sure you won’t hit much.
This is actually open to anyone: if you’re in Northern California and have questions about track days or guidance or to spectate or take photos or come ride along with me: Oppo at Noops.Org is my spam friendly email. It’s such a difficult hobby to approach I’m always looking to help.