[OT] Dyno chart question

[mkii@nycap.rr.com (Josh Able)]

It is corrected, but unless you do a dyno in extreme cold or heat, it should
only change the "actual" number by around 5+/-hp.


Josh Able

"If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance." -Gil
Atkinson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Williams" <roccolister@hotmail.com>
To: <Cmr446@cs.com>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 02, 2002 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: [OT] Dyno chart question


> It's fake horsepower. ;)  Just kidding...but kinda. It is a mathmatically
> corrected figure that supposedly accounts for humidity and teperature of
the
> particular day you ran on the dyno. They use it to adjust between a cool,
> dry day and a warm, humid day. On a cool day any engine will make more
> horsepower then on a hot and humid day, so the shop will give you this SAE
> Corrected number to tell you what you'd run on a cooler day.
>
> As far as I'm concerned, it's bogus. You gotta look at the actual numbers
> you put down. If you measure at the wheels, then the only truely accurate
> number is the one at the wheels. Anything else is just hopeful. Just my
> opinion.
>
> -- Craig
>
>
> >From: Cmr446@cs.com
> >To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
> >Subject: [OT] Dyno chart question
> >Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 02:33:23 EDT
> >
> >   I haven't had the need to use a dyno, so when someone at work was
asking
> >me
> >what "SAE Corrected Horsepower" meant, I had to come here and see what
> >anyone
> >that's gone to the DynoDays could help.
> >
> >   TIA
> >Carl
> >77rocco
> >89fox
> >
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