Help est. HP: Dyno on Mon.
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Racer
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From: Simpsonville SC
Help est. HP: Dyno on Mon.
I have been working on a budget build for my C6 to see what performance I can get while keeping cost to a minimum. I have thrown money and parts at cars in past to make big power and wanted to try something different. I will be dynoing the car Monday night and dialing in the WOT tuning so we will see how I did. All work was done by myself, including porting the heads.
Car: 2006 1LT C6 Manual
Mods: K&N Filters
Ported TB, intake, heads
.041 head gaskets for a little compression bump
XMS closeout cam and springs- 228/232 .588/.598 112 cam and 918 springs
Portmatched exhaust manifolds, stock cats and mid-pipe, and Borla Stingers
Diablo Sport baseline tune
WOT tuning with diablo by your truely.
Once this test is done I plan to put headers and change to HP tuners to see what I can do with it.
What do you think it will make?????
Car: 2006 1LT C6 Manual
Mods: K&N Filters
Ported TB, intake, heads
.041 head gaskets for a little compression bump
XMS closeout cam and springs- 228/232 .588/.598 112 cam and 918 springs
Portmatched exhaust manifolds, stock cats and mid-pipe, and Borla Stingers
Diablo Sport baseline tune
WOT tuning with diablo by your truely.
Once this test is done I plan to put headers and change to HP tuners to see what I can do with it.
What do you think it will make?????
Melting Slicks
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From: READING PA
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I have been working on a budget build for my C6 to see what performance I can get while keeping cost to a minimum. I have thrown money and parts at cars in past to make big power and wanted to try something different. I will be dynoing the car Monday night and dialing in the WOT tuning so we will see how I did. All work was done by myself, including porting the heads.
Car: 2006 1LT C6 Manual
Mods: K&N Filters
Ported TB, intake, heads
.041 head gaskets for a little compression bump
XMS closeout cam and springs- 228/232 .588/.598 112 cam and 918 springs
Portmatched exhaust manifolds, stock cats and mid-pipe, and Borla Stingers
Diablo Sport baseline tune
WOT tuning with diablo by your truely.
Once this test is done I plan to put headers and change to HP tuners to see what I can do with it.
What do you think it will make?????
Car: 2006 1LT C6 Manual
Mods: K&N Filters
Ported TB, intake, heads
.041 head gaskets for a little compression bump
XMS closeout cam and springs- 228/232 .588/.598 112 cam and 918 springs
Portmatched exhaust manifolds, stock cats and mid-pipe, and Borla Stingers
Diablo Sport baseline tune
WOT tuning with diablo by your truely.
Once this test is done I plan to put headers and change to HP tuners to see what I can do with it.
What do you think it will make?????
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Le Mans Master
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From: Southeast TX
It's going to depend on how good you are at porting heads. If you get them flowing like LS3's or better, you could be north of 420. A better flowing exhaust will get you a bunch of power also. Dyno differences will play a part. Good luck with it. Bottom line is.....it will be a lot of fun no matter what the #'s are!
Burning Brakes
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From: Dallas TX
I see you went with 918s. Those are single valve springs correct?
I honestly would have suggested you go with the 921s, which are dual. Even tho the 918s are rated to .600 lift, I would suggest using dual valve springs on any cam upgrade.
I honestly would have suggested you go with the 921s, which are dual. Even tho the 918s are rated to .600 lift, I would suggest using dual valve springs on any cam upgrade.
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Racer
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From: Simpsonville SC
. Honestly, I had duals on last car becuase I spun it to 7200 rpms quite often and built the car to do so. This car is a DD and no track use. I just want a fun street car and will not be raising limiter or holding at redline over and over. I did use these springs on a simular cam in past and did push it very hard with no issue. In the spirit of a budget build, they were right choice. When I decide to get crazy later, I will go with bigger heads, better valvetrain, big cam, more, more, more...... but that is not were I am building car right now.
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Racer
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From: Simpsonville SC
Thanks for the vote of confidence on the heads. I can tell the car is going to strong once headers and tune are done. Just unsure how restrictive the manifolds will be.
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Racer
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From: Simpsonville SC
Well got the car dyno'ed today.
Car made 344RWHP and 316 RWTQ on Mustan Dyno. Stock C6 on there dynos run 300-305 hp. He claims that this would be 400/367 on a Dynojet. He states he is typically witin 2-4 hp on his comparo.
So....... Not what I hoped but with a Diablo tuner and no headers, i can't complain. The tm was kicking in and getting what appeared to be a lot of false knock.
I will do headers and HP tuners this fall or winter and see what it does then.
Car made 344RWHP and 316 RWTQ on Mustan Dyno. Stock C6 on there dynos run 300-305 hp. He claims that this would be 400/367 on a Dynojet. He states he is typically witin 2-4 hp on his comparo.
So....... Not what I hoped but with a Diablo tuner and no headers, i can't complain. The tm was kicking in and getting what appeared to be a lot of false knock.
I will do headers and HP tuners this fall or winter and see what it does then.
Last edited by N2O4YOU; Sep 8, 2008 at 10:40 PM.
Drifting
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From: Lehigh Valley Pennsylvania
Well got the car dyno'ed today.
Car made 344RWHP and 316 RWTQ on Mustan Dyno. Stock C6 on there dynos run 300-305 hp. He claims that this would be 400/367 on a Dynojet. He states he is typically witin 2-4 hp on his comparo.
So....... Not what I hoped but with a Diablo tuner and no headers, i can't complain. The tm was kicking in and getting what appeared to be a lot of false knock.
I will do headers and HP tuners this fall or winter and see what it does then.
Car made 344RWHP and 316 RWTQ on Mustan Dyno. Stock C6 on there dynos run 300-305 hp. He claims that this would be 400/367 on a Dynojet. He states he is typically witin 2-4 hp on his comparo.
So....... Not what I hoped but with a Diablo tuner and no headers, i can't complain. The tm was kicking in and getting what appeared to be a lot of false knock.
I will do headers and HP tuners this fall or winter and see what it does then.
Drifting
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From: Meadville Pennsylvania
Well got the car dyno'ed today.
Car made 344RWHP and 316 RWTQ on Mustan Dyno. Stock C6 on there dynos run 300-305 hp. He claims that this would be 400/367 on a Dynojet. He states he is typically witin 2-4 hp on his comparo.
So....... Not what I hoped but with a Diablo tuner and no headers, i can't complain. The tm was kicking in and getting what appeared to be a lot of false knock.
I will do headers and HP tuners this fall or winter and see what it does then.
Car made 344RWHP and 316 RWTQ on Mustan Dyno. Stock C6 on there dynos run 300-305 hp. He claims that this would be 400/367 on a Dynojet. He states he is typically witin 2-4 hp on his comparo.
So....... Not what I hoped but with a Diablo tuner and no headers, i can't complain. The tm was kicking in and getting what appeared to be a lot of false knock.
I will do headers and HP tuners this fall or winter and see what it does then.
Burning Brakes
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From: BURTON MI
Well got the car dyno'ed today.
Car made 344RWHP and 316 RWTQ on Mustan Dyno. Stock C6 on there dynos run 300-305 hp. He claims that this would be 400/367 on a Dynojet. He states he is typically witin 2-4 hp on his comparo.
So....... Not what I hoped but with a Diablo tuner and no headers, i can't complain. The tm was kicking in and getting what appeared to be a lot of false knock.
I will do headers and HP tuners this fall or winter and see what it does then.
Car made 344RWHP and 316 RWTQ on Mustan Dyno. Stock C6 on there dynos run 300-305 hp. He claims that this would be 400/367 on a Dynojet. He states he is typically witin 2-4 hp on his comparo.
So....... Not what I hoped but with a Diablo tuner and no headers, i can't complain. The tm was kicking in and getting what appeared to be a lot of false knock.
I will do headers and HP tuners this fall or winter and see what it does then.
Safety Car
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From: Corpus Christi Texas
I hear that it really depends on the tuner. The Mustang Dyno can output dynojet type corrected numbers but not always that accurate. Just what I've read, I'm certainly no expert on the matter.
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Racer
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From: Simpsonville SC
Did you just plop the diablotune in and go? Or did you calibrate the tune for your exact car? If you didn't calibrate it...get ahold of 06MonteSS on this forum or the Diablosport forum...he will fix you up with getting rid of that KR and getting more power from the tune.
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Racer
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From: Simpsonville SC
I am not a dyno expert and he stated that he has many customers that do tuning on his load dyno and then go to nearby shop and run on DynoJet for the numbers. He says he has done enough comparisons that the Dynojet runs about 16% higher than his.
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Racer
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From: Simpsonville SC
I am hoping to hit the DynoJet sometime soon to compare. The reason I chose the shop I did is because he was willing to let me use the Diablo to log and tune between runs. He spent 2.5 hours with me for the cost of 3 dyno pulls (actually made 5-6 pulls). The other shop charges 125/hr if tuning.
I honestly went to dyno to tune WOT fueling with the Diablo. The Dyno #'s were just for fun and to see how I did on budget build. I can see that the heads and cam is too much for a non-header car. I think headers and a full HP tune and I will be in the 430-440 range.
I honestly went to dyno to tune WOT fueling with the Diablo. The Dyno #'s were just for fun and to see how I did on budget build. I can see that the heads and cam is too much for a non-header car. I think headers and a full HP tune and I will be in the 430-440 range.
