[copasspupil]

Does anyone know of one in the south end that does dyno's and can someone tell me the difference between chassis and the others?

 

[copasspupil]

I mean the chassis and the motor dyno. Is it true that you loose ~ 20 % with a chassis?

 

[bbenthin]

Blood Enterprises in Auburn.

 

[bbenthin]

Not sure what you mean by "loose" or "lose".
You certainly lose HP through your drive train and a chassis dyno will tell you what you're making at the rear wheels. Engine dyno would tell you what you've got at the flywheel. Not even sure how engine dynos work...wouldn't the motor have to be out of the car for that? ::

 

[KevinV]

Yes, the engine must be out of the car. I had my engine on the engine dyno before it went in the car. It was fun watching the process. The engine is hooked up in a little room. It looks like it is in intensive care with all the wires and stuff around it. From another room, the engine is ran and monitored. I think more things can be monitored on an engine dyno. Mine was tuned on the engine dyno, although once in the car, it was set too lean. I had to bump up a couple of jet sizes.

 

[bbenthin]

Oh yeah, forgot to mention...word is that they'll be raffling off some sort of dyno session with Blood at my club's show this weekend. I probably won't make the show...but if you're in the area, drop in and buy a ticket...you might get lucky. ::

 

[copasspupil]

Yeah, the motor wil be out until I finish the swap. I was thinking about having it dyno'd like before and after and post the results. All the research, I've done lately was stating 20-30% loss.

 

[MarkMach1]

If you have the money, do the engine dyno. If you want street numbers, numbers you can say "meet the ground", do the chassis dyno. It would be nice to have both though. If you had both you would see how efficient/inefficient your drivetrain/chassis really is. I know the shop that I did my chassis dyno at told me to "leave my ego at the door". A lot of people leave a chassis dyno with their jaw on the ground expecting much higher numbers cause they "think" their motor makes this much power. ::

I went in hoping for 300RWHP, I left the shop with 270 and some tuning to do.

 

[DAVZ289]

I have heard the drivetrain loss is going to be anywhere from 15-20% for manual transmission and 20-25% or more for automatic transmissions, the AOD robbing on the higher end.

Dave