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Early Morning Breakfast Dyno Report

To: LSR <land-speed@autox.team.net>,
Subject: Early Morning Breakfast Dyno Report
From: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 06:26:03 -0700
Well we made it home from the dyno around 8 pm last night. Approximately 
a 170 mile round trip (why don't I have one of these thingys?). I can 
only dscribe my feelings as YEE HA!!...bummer. Ok most of ya'll 
generally know me for telling it the way it is/was even if there is egg 
on my face. Well, there is some of that and some good news and some bad 
news. We arrived at the facility about 45 miutes early and of course, 
the man I talked to to set it up didn't at first remember who I was 
(great start). But then he clicked in and remembered. Said I am sorry 
but I have to close the shop now..I have a photoshoot at 4pm for me and 
my car. But he called his dad who actually owns the shop and came at 
4:10pm. Ok back in business. But then the dyno was farkled. Seems the 
week before they had moved it from one building space to he next one 
over. Well, that was ok, but there was no power to it except extension 
cords....everywhere. And one kept bolwing a circuit breaker. HAd to sort 
that out before we could get started. Finally...car is set up and  and 
the operator ran the car to about 2500 rpm, gently. No real issues but a 
little fat. Leaned the MAF curve and that leaned it where it needed to 
be fat. Returned it back to the way it was and increased the injector 
size (note this is trick! tells the computer to squirt less because the 
injectors are bigger). MAde a coiuple or three light pulls to see if it 
was safe to lean on. Yup. Really fat but safe. Zowee, he pressed the 
loud pedal and the car climbed the rpm curve then the boost hit. Jumped 
to 650 hp and then the torque converter went away! OR at least that is 
my surmise.  The speedo in the car also hit 213 mph, but this could be 
off somewhat as I calibrated it myself. We tried a few more pulls with 
the car in second and manually shifting but the torque converter or 
tranny would not let us get beyond 314 hp give or take a few. so we 
called it a day. So, in conclusion, the motor is quite strong and safe 
to run. I have lots of data to mess with. I probably need a new torque 
converter (I need to chat with someone on any of the lists who 
understands torque converters). I also need to do some more 
modifications to the valve body, that steel plate that goes between the 
trans and the valve body.

Lots of work to do now...into thrash mode...

mayf




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