R33 Dyno results.

[whatsisname]

You missed the point. Nobody said anything about "not enjoying" the horsepower, it's more a case of getting used to it & then wanting to experience that, 'WOW this feels fast' feeling again.

Show pony? I've never entered a car in a car show in my life, not intending to either. I don't give a rats arse if someone has more rwkw than me either. Do I enjoy putting that power to use on the street & strip? Hell yes!

Originally posted by Sydneykid

... whats the point of horsepower if you can't enjoy it... why keep chasing more if you don't enjoy it after 2 weeks.... seems completely stupid... hell, i drive a piss-poor '88 Honda integra everyday, and enjoy it thoroughly everyday. and that's by no means fast....

Point being, if ya don't enjoy it, why the hell bother... or are you all show ponies??

[Guest GTBO5S]

dont drive your car for a week....trust me it feels like a jet again when you go for that first spin!!!

[EnricoPalazzo]

If anyones car feels slow, I will personally volenteer my Hyundai Excel "TWIN CAM" to be borrowed for however long necessary.

[dojobi]

I'm not going to be able to drive my car for 8 months, so you can imagine the pain I'm in.

[Pops]

I had my car dynoed just for fun because it only cost me $40 . Made 130rwkw on a 30 degree + day . Dont know what mode it was in , and the car is stock except for a 3" mandrel bent cat back .

Whenever my car "starts feeling slow" , I go take my mums daewoo for a spin . The skyline is heaven on earth after that torture

[Sydneykid]

Hi Guys, one of the issues with Shootout mode is ambient air temperature correction. What the dyno does is compensate for the temperature of the day. Lets say its 36 degrees in the dyno room and as we know 8 degrees of temperature is worth 5% in horsepower. So if the dyno corrects the horsepower reading to 20 degrees ambient it adds 10% to the true power reading at the wheels. So the car might only be making 200 rwkw but the dyno will show 220 rwkw because that's what it would have made if the temperature had been 20 degrees instead of 36.

There is also altitude correction, where the dyno allows for its height above sea level. ie; it increases the power readings in an attempt to duplicate the horsepower that the engine would develop if it was at sea level.

Adding these two correction factors together, it is possible to have a car that actually produced 190 rwkw, show 220 rwkw on the dyno chart. The idea is of course to enable comparisons between dyno's in summer and winter and at different locations and therefore altitudes.

Maybe there are some dyno operators out there who use correction factors (there are more than these 2) for other purposes. Then again it could just be that I'm a suspicious kinda guy.

Hope that adds to the discussion.

[Cubes]

Drive it on low boost for a couple of days then flick the switch just before you exit a corner and gun it.. Always does it for me.

[PRO_32]

mic33r no car for 8 months

ouch.. that hurts i had to leave my car and go down to melbourne for 3 months and that was jus torture, i was going to bed dreaming of driving my car but 8 months thats killer dude, good luck..