Scirocco List Buffalo Dyno Day

Saturday, October 20th

It's officially a tradition once you've done it twice right? Once again, the lure of the chassis dyno was offered, and the call to put your engine where your mouth is was thrown down. Several Scirocco Mailing list members made the trek out to Buffalo on that amazingly beautiful day. For the second year going, we had great weather despite the typically cold time of the year. There were many thoughts on who was going to make the most power, and the least. :-) Our power outputs to the wheels ranged from over 150 to below 50 in some cases. All the participants had a wonderful time, and if you're making engine modifications, or just have to know what you're putting down, and can drive out next year, consider yourself invited! Sorry that it took so long to get this story and photos on line, but it's suprising how busy one can get. :-)       Some of the pictures below have additional links to them with pictures of the dyno plots for that vehicle, look around and enjoy! The dyno plots were plotted using the Dyno Jet software Fullrunviewer, which was downloaded from their site. They were then 'screen-snapped', cropped, and a pointer removed if necessary (caught in the 'screen-snap'). Sometimes the contrast was increased for readability, but no other retouching was done. I think I did notice some torque graph (right hand edge) issues with the numbers reading too high, but the peak readings (printed into the graph) were always correct. The Fullrunviewer might have an issue with plotting both power and torque against rpm's. Switching to power and torque against mph seemed to make a difference, but that graph is less useful IMO.

We usually start the weekend off right the Thursday or Friday night before. Here we area at Jims house, in the machine room. My thumbs (Brett), Jason C, Renard, Daun, and Josh round out the crew here. We watched racing vids for hours after this, as typical VW car geeks. :-)		We met at my house the next morning, probalby too early for many folks...tough! :-) That's me (Brett) climbing into my car. The 2.1L 16v put down 152ish in 3rd during an all gear run...this most likely works out to be about 180hp at the crank. Whee! See the plots page for more info.	Dyno Plots
Dauns Yeagleys 16v sled all the way from Ohio! At 200k+ miles, the basically stock 1.8L in it is a bit on the tired side...as in replace me with a 2.0L in the spring and never look back. :-)	Dyno Plot	So there's this whole line of cars parked in front of my house, and my neighbors didn't begin to get nervous until Marc Peterson couldn't get his ride started. We eventually got this Rochester based Mk1 to Buffalo where its' 1.6L made the 2nd lowest HP. Maybe next year Marc! :-)	Dyno Plot
Jason Arms brought this car back near death by grafting on a good front end. Performance was perked up with a 1.8 RD, making more power then Daun's 16v I believe. Not bad at all for just the beginning of his project.	Dyno Plot	Jason Camissa has left the 1.8L at home and was packing a recently rebuilt basically stock 2L 16v. You really don't need to add much more to a Scirocco to haul down most other 'sporty' cars (Stock & Mildly tuned VR6's included!)	Dyno Plots
Can you ever have too much black? Jim Jarrett has a tuned 1.9L 16v. Why yes, that is the rare BBS bodykit on there.	Dyno Plots	More proof that you can't get too much black Seidl, now with fatty rims! Josh Able was also packing a new to him 2L 16v.	Dyno Plot
Julie Macfarlane's computerized Mk1...ask her about it sometime. This steed won for the lowest horrsepower rating!	Dyno Plot	Rounding out the 2L 16v's was the GLI of Renard Paulin.	Dyno Plot
Jim's Passat VR6 5 speed wagen. He brought the car this year, but we dyno'd it last year. Thought it would make a nice addition here.	Dyno Plot	Finally haulin' down the Thruway towards Bufflao...we stopped about 2 too many times actually. :-)
We finally arrive for a long days dyno workout at P&J Performance near Buffalo. We ran 9 cars in just over 8 hours.		Some engine tuning before running ont he dyno...some people wondered if they might blow up their engines...ha! :-)
Jason Arms had recently done a 1.8L RD engine conversion. I think he might have been putting a few finishing touches on it while driving to Rochester!		We like big butts, and the fatty rims can't hurt either. :-) Thre's 36 inches of wheel rim across the back of these two.