So, what's up with Buffalo dyno days?

[jdbubb@ix.netcom.com (Dan Bubb)]

Josh:
You're running a stock 1.8T ECU with a chip right?
IMHO SDS is a POS compared to that. Just need to find somebody that can
tune the thing. At least look into a TEC III or DTA before going SDS. If
I thought you were broke I'd skip the issue, but I suspect you can
afford something better and your car sure looks like it deserves it.
Dan

Josh Able wrote:
> 
> :P
> 
> the numbers were actually higher than I figured they would be. I changed out
> my stock 4.0bar fpr which was giving the car way to much gas down low, for a
> 3.0bar fpr. I noticed more gains down low, but I also knew I lost a good
> chunk near the top. I was guessing about 245 at the wheels with 17 pounds
> boost, instead Im at 258hp with a 10lb-ft torque improvement. Of course this
> is with two different brands of dynos..but..
> 
> sadly that BMW has the power a bit more evenly spread out in the power band
> :P
> 
> SDS might just help me out a tad in this!
> 
> As for Jason's VR6, that car produced damn nice numbers, and then with just
> changing the intake to get 19 more!!
> 
> Makes it even more impressive that Bens 16v mkI can hang with Jason with
> ease. :D
> 
> Josh Able
> www.JsHouseOfEuro.com
> "If you're already walking on thin ice, you might as well dance." -Gil
> Atkinson
> 
> *GERMANY 2003 - a dub odyssey*
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jason" <jason@scirocco.org>
> To: <jdbubb@ix.netcom.com>; <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
> Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 1:58 PM
> Subject: Re: So, what's up with Buffalo dyno days?
> 
> > At 01:03 PM 10/21/2002, Dan Bubb wrote:
> > >Any interesting results??
> >
> > Absolutely!  I'm surprised no one has posted yet, but I guess we're all
> > trying to get back to work etc...
> >
> > Two very noteworthy things happened (lesser of the two first);
> >
> > 1.  My VR6 gained 19hp over the baseline run with the mere addition of a
> > Neuspeed P-Flo intake.
> >
> > 2.  Josh Able's 1.8T Scirocco put (are you sitting?) 258hp and 257lb-ft of
> > torque to the wheels.
> >
> > I'm going to repeat that because it sounds vaguely impressive:
> >
> >          2500lb car.
> >          258 horsepower to the wheels.
> >          257 ft-lb of torque to the wheels.
> >
> > Using the old 15% estimate, that would be around 300hp at the motor.
> >
> > That's a power to weight ratio of 8.3 lb/hp.  The 4.9-second 0-60 screamer
> > BMW E46 M3 has a power-to-weight ratio (333hp, 3400lb) of 10.2:1.
> >
> > el sicko, no?
> >
> > Jason
> >
> >
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