Did you get brakes yet? We cant have you out there no being able to stop

 

Yeah brakes were a birthday gift to myself. They work pretty good but not as good as the racing brake 2 piece stuff.

 

It's awesome you can stop good now but uh...DID YOU POLISH THEM HEADLIGHTS SO AS TO SEE GOOD TOO!?! Lol, I harp like an 'ole lady! Crap, I am old.

 

Lol I did polish them a little bit ago. I did mess one side up a little so I will have to fix it and recoat it. I am switching to GTR Lighting led bulbs instead of the Diode Dynamic bulbs I have in there now to help with brightness. The Diode Dynamics were a huge improvement over my hid that I had in there, but they are a little dim when it comes to wet weather and on coming traffic. They are 560 lux and are pretty good for normal people. But I hear ya when you say your OLD lol. I just turned 46 and I need more useable light. The other bulbs are 960 lux so thats a big improvement to my old *** eyes.

 

Lol, yeah I was 46 when I realized night needs bright light for my old man sight.

 

So today I wanted to see what my car will do on a different dyno. So today I went to Pure tuning out in Toledo, Ohio. So as you guys know my car basically made 1200 on a Dynocom dyno. So my tuner was ok with me going to a Mustang dyno to see what the car will do. So before you guys laugh I want you to think of something. My car made 1200ish at 55 lbs of boost, I did not know my tuner turned down the boost when I got my car to keep my clutch happy and if he told me I forgot. So with that said I was told car runs on kill mode about 44 lbs of boost. Here is the dyno graph from today.

Ok so before you guys laugh here is what I found out. The Mustang dyno is loaded stupidly. This dyno has been at the shop since 2001 and I don't think its been calibrated at all. Over the years I have heard that they blow up more cars on this dyno then anyone else that owns a dyno and I think I know why. So after reading my car made 670 whp at 44 lbs, I was pretty concerned. So I went to my tuner afterwards and was like dude wtf. He pulls the logs and the first words were man your lucky we didn't keep the 55 lbs of boost or you prob throw a rod. I asked him why do you say that? He said look at this. On his dyno car took aprox 9 seconds to make a 4th gear pull. This dyno took 20 seconds at 100% throttle. Ok so what does that mean? Means load is pretty high. Another thing that points to that is my injector duty cycle on his dyno was 75% at 44 lbs, and 92% at 55 lbs. So with that said on this dyno at 44 lbs I was at 96% or something like. The car seemed to work extra hard making the pull which it hasn't on any other dyno before. If I were to have used the 55 lbs of boost I would have been way out of injector and it would have been catastrophic.

So what I have learned is, be careful when it comes to dynos. Know what your load is and make sure you log everything. Saif (my tuner) called his second tuner and asked him about this as well and he was like yeah dyno is way off. So with this said today was a waste of 280 bucks for the dyno.

 

Yeah overloading dyno puts way more strain on everything than it would ever see on the street or strip which makes it pretty pointless to do other than to be a clutch killer and "heartbreaker dyno". If the dyno has eddy current load cells always ask if its been calibrated per manufacturer's instructions, when was the last calibration and properly setup up for the vehicle. Same goes for hydraulic load cell dynos. Doing that will provide the most accurate and consistent reading of the torque through the RPM range.

 

Yeah exactly. I don't know much about the dyno other then it pissed me off. I was pretty upset when I saw setting 1 which read 700whp @26 psi on wg pressure become 330 or whatever it was.

 

This is good to know about pure, i almost took my car there to Get tuned.

You figure with how cold it was Yesterday that you would of made more power!

 

I never understood why the whole "heartbreaker dyno" thing was cool. The machine should just be accurate enough to be a tuning tool, and the cars 1/4 mile trap should approximately match the whp the dyno rated it at.

It sounds like that one is so far off you can even use it for accurate tuning if your car wouldn't have even been able to have been turned up all the way. This why I really prefer dynojets. They can't be ****ed with like MD's can.

 

Yeah I agree. I told the guy Mustang or not somethings wrong with your dyno and he looked at me confused. I am just glad nothing happened to the car. I am happy you didn't go there to get your car tuned.

I am with you Sean, I think the "heartbreaker" part of it is when you spend so much money and it goes boom on the first pull lol. I am almost afraid to go to another dyno around here now just because of this. I have a DJ not far from me and idk if I wanna go to it after this. My tuner is having his Dynocom serviced and recalabrated just after x mas and he wants to have me make a few more pulls on it to verify the car is making what it makes. I guess it is time to service the belts and rollers or whatever is having done.

 

So today I am looking at some future mods. As you guys know I still need suspension and unfortunate cut backs really hurt me buying them with my x mas bonus this year. But other then suspension I was looking to maybe refresh my cams before the shootout next year. I have currently Kelford tx288s in the car which are 288 intak and 280 exhaust. I find out that they make a tx288r. Now that is interesting it is a 288 intake and a 294 exhaust. When we redid my valve cover gasket because it leaked, I noticed that the cams were all pitted and had rust on them. Hmmm big suprise but wasn't really that worried about it being the car made good power with them in the car. But what do you guys think, would it be a good idea to refreshen up the cams and give them a little upgrade with the next round of upgrades?

 

You need to look at what gains you will get from changing Cams. Since you will have to pay for a retune.

 

Not so much a retune just a touch up. Intakes are the same. I am sure a few pulls and it he could get the afrs back to where they need to be.

 

GSC billet S3's and be done. They make 1400whp in ER's drag car. Proven enough for me