Dyno disappointment!!

Hmmm... I too would expect more since it appears VERY similar to my combo. Who put the parts on?

I made 304rwhp/331rwtq SAE BTW with my setup.

Killercanary said:

Hmmm... I too would expect more since it appears VERY similar to my combo. Who put the parts on?

I made 304rwhp/331rwtq SAE BTW with my setup.

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KC, I always thought your sig said 293rwhp?..and where is everyone getting 330rwtq on a 302? Am I going bonkers or is that seem high?

You need more RPM my man. They left about 1000 RPM on the table by only taking it out to 5500. I do that with my stock junk and trick flow manifold. Did you get the PS3 upgrade package that Ed C sells for those AFRs?

Adam

Pokageek said:

KC, I always thought your sig said 293rwhp?..and where is everyone getting 330rwtq on a 302? Am I going bonkers or is that seem high?

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max torque is almost always higher than max hp. and it is definately higher than hp until 5252 rpm.

'94ChickStang said:

But no worries b/c it's only an hour drive each way...

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ONLY an hour? you must not have gotten home until like midnight ...

i'd be pissed if i drove an hour to get my car and came home 5 hours later empty handed

Pokageek said:

KC, I always thought your sig said 293rwhp?..and where is everyone getting 330rwtq on a 302? Am I going bonkers or is that seem high?

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It always made 293-294rwhp on Kauffman's dyno. I continued to tune and tweak it at the track with my eec tuner and I then had it dyno'd at Cecil county dragway the day i ran 12.1 at 112.5mph and it made the 304rwhp/331rwtq.
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'94ChickStang- Why on earth did they stop the dyno pull so early? The AF looks goods, although my car made more power down in the high 12:1 range than it did at 13:1.

Are you sure the cam was degreed in right and that the valvetrain geometry was setup correctly?

Who installed and degreed the cam. Is it operating at the range that Ed specified on the cam card. The cam could be over advanced. I have no experience with Ed's cams. But I had to advance my Jay Allen cam 2*.



That combo should be a solid 300/320 easy when straight and maybe more.

Like self tuning, I find all this dyno stuff so interesting

In no way do I claim to understand it all
and
Since I seem to always have Q's
When you folks do your pulls ... that tells me I got a long way to go

Some observations and Q's about the pull since you put up the chart

CF: UNCORRECTED Smoothing:

I don't remember seeing that on other pulls
Seen smoothing before ... IIRC, a lot of the time it has a value of 5
I do admit to not really understanding what all that smoothing is about
but have always thought of it being about taking out all the little jitters
one might see in the hp/tq/af ratio lines.

Look at the af ratio ... very little movement as it almost perfectly hugs
that 13 to 1 line. I can assure you, I don't see that flat of a line with my
equipment. I did once have an opportunity to work with a fellow on a
dynojet who took some time and showed me he could zoom in on the
fuel ratio and get more detailed results. Now this was a long time ago
but IIRC, when he did that, we got the more detailed display which
showed a more true display of the results as the variations could be
seen.

You sometimes see the word SAE or STANDARD used but not here.
Perhaps they are to be found somewhere on the sides where we
can't see it

3600 rpm before hitting 300 lbs of torque is not what I've seen be the
norm for a combo such as this. Even more so in this case because of
the longest runner choice of intake used.

The hp seems like it might be able to go a tad higher but they cut the
pull short

I'd ask them to make the pull in the range of less than 2k to 6K
You got the nice springs
so
You might even wanna go on up to 6200
but
It would depend upon if the curve starts to fall before 6K

Notice the shape of the curves ... not the values ... it looks not all
that much out of the norm IMHO.

13 to 1 is too lean from all I've seen
but ... then again
We are dealing with a mid pipe that has cats

This is important because if they used a sniffer in the tail pipe ..........
That is most likely gonna produce a false lean reading.

I'd wanna be taking a reading from a bung before the cats

anyway .............

Here I am second guessing what all happened without being there
but
From everything you said ... the car does not sound like it is or was
in a state of preparedness to obtain the best results possible.

I mean ... you said it was worse after their handy work than before
you let them hose around with it ... that ain't right for sure

It sounds to me like the Closed Loop issues throwing cel codes and
all that held you back with your efforts on the dyno.

Good Luck and I look forward to what develops here.

Grady

Shouldn't she be able to take the car to a dyno shop that just gets it done and gets it right? All this driving, money spent and no results...

reminds me of my first experience with a dyno...$1200 later..you all know my story on that one...

In most mild NA combos the dyno should only optimize a combo.

When I did mine. I had NO tuning and pulled 302/327. As matter of fact the only tuning we did was 3 pulls and drop the fuel 2 psi. It pulled 306/330 with no chip.
I bet I could have pulled another 5-10 with a chip. My idle was good, made top power at 5500. Was going 13.1 @ 105, full weight street tires and stock 120k mile clutch.

There is always more than just bolting parts on. tolerances, degreeing the cam, Geometry, checking TDC, confirming the balancer is good and the timing marks line up, dizzy install and timing, vacuum leaks, sensors. Setting initial FP and so on.

My opinion is that I would take my car, go over everything myself. Dizzy, timing fuel etc, sensors.

No one will care or work on your car as well as you. To most shops its just another car and another customer. The old saying of if you want something done right do it yourself.

experience comes with a price, be it $$$ , mistakes or a combination of the 2.

Mod it, break it, fix it, learn from it and repeat.

Good luck, I Would like to see what its capable of.

Not to counter but my experience At kauffmans motorsports is they got another 20rwhp out of my car even b4 I put the better intake on comapred to just stock settings. They are good tuners though.