Well.....the final tally after $460 :: spent at the dyno shop.....290 rwhp at 5700 rpm and hovered in the 325-335 ft lbs range from 3100 - 4400 rpm. And techincally Art had the closest numbers, but he only rattled them off in chat so they don't count 
Cloney said 287 rwhp/300 ftlbs and 7d said 310 hp and 330 ft lbs (I think he and I are gonna have to have a face to face so I can figure out how he is getting 430 rwhp :: )
Ok, so lessons learned....
1. anything but real world dynoing is absolutely worthless, and from now on if any one qoutes me a horsepower number, I will kindly ask if it was really dynoed (and if I am feeling really miserable I'll say "lemme see the print out" )
2. I dunno if it was the place I went to or not. But apparnetly 8:30 appointment means we will get around to strapping the first car on the dyno at 9:40 and then run it at around 10:00...then quickly strap the second one on that is getting tuned get first round numbers and then spend the next 3 hours dilly dailying between the dyno and other things for a total of 5 runs. In all honesty, Joe did a good job tuning.....the first pull netted me a wooping 230 hp (see attached graph). He changed the springs in the dizzy, re-timed it, and jetted the carb down for the final numbers...there was a pull of 295 in there, but he didn't print it off for some reason But we didn't get out of there until after 1:30 pm.....and then I got charged the $225 test and tune flat fee...and for 2 hours of labor...I was so tired I wasn't going to dispute the fast that he had less than an hour under the hood tuning according to my watch
So.....here is were I am at.
The car runs phenomenolly. With the latest bump in performance (230 to 290 hp) The whole way home on 95 I passed most people less than half throttle in OD......4 sec 2k to 4k (or 50 to 100) and on some occasions down shifted into third and got sucked into my seat at half pedal.
So here is my quandry. There is no doubt the car is fast. And right now it idles smooth like a puddy cat and it putting down almost 300 RWHP. No doubt with only a larger cam swap (since the car ran to 7100 or so on the dyno all day long) I can get a few more horses to the rear, and moaybe some porting and polishing since the heads are essentially bone stock in that area. Is it even worth adding these item to the list of things to do to the car in the near future, or just leave it as it is. Right now, the car feels and acts like it could be a daily driver. It starts right up anytime. It just drove home in stop and go rush hour traffic for 2 hours with out ever getting past 1/2 in the temp.....what are all your thoughts?
Right now I am leaning towards the drive it, get used to it, see if the car is still able to cash the checks the motor writes now. Install the stereo I have, add a radiator, put in the seat belts, maybe add those too cool streetortrack struts, and enjoy the car every pleasant day for the next 6-12 months.
http://users.zoominternet.net/~dodgeram/dynoresults.jpg
Cloney said 287 rwhp/300 ftlbs and 7d said 310 hp and 330 ft lbs (I think he and I are gonna have to have a face to face so I can figure out how he is getting 430 rwhp :: )Ok, so lessons learned....
1. anything but real world dynoing is absolutely worthless, and from now on if any one qoutes me a horsepower number, I will kindly ask if it was really dynoed
(and if I am feeling really miserable I'll say "lemme see the print out" )2. I dunno if it was the place I went to or not. But apparnetly 8:30 appointment means we will get around to strapping the first car on the dyno at 9:40 and then run it at around 10:00...then quickly strap the second one on that is getting tuned get first round numbers and then spend the next 3 hours dilly dailying between the dyno and other things for a total of 5 runs. In all honesty, Joe did a good job tuning.....the first pull netted me a wooping 230 hp (see attached graph). He changed the springs in the dizzy, re-timed it, and jetted the carb down for the final numbers...there was a pull of 295 in there, but he didn't print it off for some reason
But we didn't get out of there until after 1:30 pm.....and then I got charged the $225 test and tune flat fee...and for 2 hours of labor...I was so tired I wasn't going to dispute the fast that he had less than an hour under the hood tuning according to my watch So.....here is were I am at.
The car runs phenomenolly. With the latest bump in performance (230 to 290 hp) The whole way home on 95 I passed most people less than half throttle in OD......4 sec 2k to 4k (or 50 to 100) and on some occasions down shifted into third and got sucked into my seat at half pedal.
So here is my quandry. There is no doubt the car is fast. And right now it idles smooth like a puddy cat and it putting down almost 300 RWHP. No doubt with only a larger cam swap (since the car ran to 7100 or so on the dyno all day long) I can get a few more horses to the rear, and moaybe some porting and polishing since the heads are essentially bone stock in that area. Is it even worth adding these item to the list of things to do to the car in the near future, or just leave it as it is. Right now, the car feels and acts like it could be a daily driver. It starts right up anytime. It just drove home in stop and go rush hour traffic for 2 hours with out ever getting past 1/2 in the temp.....what are all your thoughts?
Right now I am leaning towards the drive it, get used to it, see if the car is still able to cash the checks the motor writes now. Install the stereo I have, add a radiator, put in the seat belts, maybe add those too cool streetortrack struts, and enjoy the car every pleasant day for the next 6-12 months.
http://users.zoominternet.net/~dodgeram/dynoresults.jpg
