Mods and Dyno Results
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Racer
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From: Bowie Maryland
Mods and Dyno Results
Just picked up my car today from Tony's Corvette Shop in Gaithersburg, MD. I highly recommend that you take your car there for mods, they really know what they are doing and not to mention really nice guys. The dyno lab is amazing... I was expecting a dyno sheet but instead handed me a dyno book with my name on the cover! 4 different dyno sheets and 4 other pages of explanations.
The mods I had done were:
Callaway Honker
Corsa Indys w/3.5 Pro Tips and Xpipe
Performance Dyno Tune
Also had every fluid changed.... 8 of them.
They didn't do an actual baseline of my car... instead used the SAE Corrected scale of 291 HP on an M6 at the rear wheels. They said I was probably making around 300 HP.
My final results were:
326 RWHP (from 291)
344 RWTrq (from 297)
384 FWHP (from 350)
404 FWTrq (from 375)
Needless to say, I'm happy about these numbers. The car feels and sounds great!
The mods I had done were:
Callaway Honker
Corsa Indys w/3.5 Pro Tips and Xpipe
Performance Dyno Tune
Also had every fluid changed.... 8 of them.
They didn't do an actual baseline of my car... instead used the SAE Corrected scale of 291 HP on an M6 at the rear wheels. They said I was probably making around 300 HP.
My final results were:
326 RWHP (from 291)
344 RWTrq (from 297)
384 FWHP (from 350)
404 FWTrq (from 375)
Needless to say, I'm happy about these numbers. The car feels and sounds great!
Last edited by nonsuchpro; Feb 9, 2007 at 11:01 PM.
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Racer
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Looks to me that you may have a valve train stability issue. You may want to discuss with them, and if so, upgrade the valve springs to Z06 springs. Just want to make sure you don't float a valve and hit the piston, and I don't want to alarm you either, but I would ask what they think. That dip looks very much like a valve spring harmonic.
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Racer
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Looks to me that you may have a valve train stability issue. You may want to discuss with them, and if so, upgrade the valve springs to Z06 springs. Just want to make sure you don't float a valve and hit the piston, and I don't want to alarm you either, but I would ask what they think. That dip looks very much like a valve spring harmonic.
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Racer
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The way I look at it is he could easily have said I have a problem and try to get more money from me but instead, he said I have a great car! I'm not too concerned, the car runs amazingly and sound just as amazing.... I'm happy with their performance.
Last edited by nonsuchpro; Feb 13, 2007 at 01:07 PM.
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Racer
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From: Bowie Maryland
The dyno is a SuperFlow AutoDyn 840 Eddy Current Chassis Dynamometer.
http://www.lostcorvettes.org/sponsor...tonys_dyno.pdf
http://www.lostcorvettes.org/sponsor...tonys_dyno.pdf
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Looks to me that you may have a valve train stability issue. You may want to discuss with them, and if so, upgrade the valve springs to Z06 springs. Just want to make sure you don't float a valve and hit the piston, and I don't want to alarm you either, but I would ask what they think. That dip looks very much like a valve spring harmonic.
or else this could be you 
But she is flycut, upgraded heads/cam and back together. The Doctor's has the capability of rebuilding her stronger, faster, better
Going back into the car this week....can't wait 
