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Old 11-05-2013, 12:18 PM   #164 (permalink)
andre12031948
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Default good post but I DON'T want to get OFF the topic

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Originally Posted by FortuneLSX-TT View Post
I'm pretty sure we dyno at the wheels because taking our engines out of the car and hooking them up to an engine dyno is not exactly a very cost effective measure. Dynos are useful for tuning. The track is useful for proving who is actually the fastest. My numbers fluctuate by a ridiculous number from dyno to dyno and day to day. Dynos are a useful indicator of performance gained, but by no means are they the end all be all of performance. I thought everyone knew that one.

Secondly, peak numbers only tell a fraction of the story. The area under the curve, and getting that power to the ground effectively matter a lot more. So a car with more power can still lose to a car with less power. Everything else being equal, then yes the car with ONLY 18 extra bhp will still win.

Does the drive train lose power? Yes. Does 18bhp matter to some people? Without a doubt it does. If 18hp wasn't that much of a gain then why do some people bother getting an intake or a test pipe or whatever other mod that ONLY gets them a few rwhp.

It still baffles me to no end, why does everyone think that owning a Nismo means you are not allowed to change any part ever?
like car's performance. I have my reason.

I'm NOT very much into doing dynos. Only once I went to a place where they had a group dyno thing. That was LONG ago & I mostly went just to see others/other cars.
It means very little to me if one person posts that he got 310whp & another says he got 320whp. I don't care. I've been clear as far as what I'm into.

My only reason to get into a big dyno talk on this post was because I didn't understand that guy's reaction/comment to my post....

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