Interest in Flying up MazdaManiac for an AP dyno tuning weekend
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BTW...I was drinking the dark stuff last night..had enough of the damn beer..
It was an interesting day all in all...good time visiting old and meeting new
Thanks to Linda for the sugar and caffeine.......and to Shaun for the kick *** organizing
You Cali Guys have to get really smooth before your event will run as well as ours
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BTW...I was drinking the dark stuff last night..had enough of the damn beer..
It was an interesting day all in all...good time visiting old and meeting new
Thanks to Linda for the sugar and caffeine.......and to Shaun for the kick *** organizing
You Cali Guys have to get really smooth before your event will run as well as ours
#359
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LOL
Back three years ago, I laid down a 200.8 HP @ 148.6 ft-lbs dyno on a Dynojet. Since then, I have added:
Racing Beat Header
Mazsport Catless Midpipe (For Track Days
)
Cobb AccessPort tuned by Jeff
My Mustang dyno results were:
158.6 HP @ 115.9 ft-lbs
Jeff was watching my STFT at idle and could tell the engine was not sealing properly by changing the RPM a bit. Time for the new engine.
Back three years ago, I laid down a 200.8 HP @ 148.6 ft-lbs dyno on a Dynojet. Since then, I have added:
Racing Beat Header
Mazsport Catless Midpipe (For Track Days
![Smilie](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
Cobb AccessPort tuned by Jeff
My Mustang dyno results were:
158.6 HP @ 115.9 ft-lbs
Jeff was watching my STFT at idle and could tell the engine was not sealing properly by changing the RPM a bit. Time for the new engine.
#360
Jingle Ballzzzz!
Just to prove a few of us met for a short drive this morning... thanks Kristopher! I was impressed that Shaun and Jeff made it out to Redmond by 11:30am from Seattle after staying up drinking til 3am or so
Breakfast for lunch FTW!!
Nice to meet you Jeff!
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Breakfast for lunch FTW!!
Nice to meet you Jeff!
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#366
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Jeff should be waiting at the gate now for his plane.
The drive this morning was great validation. the car felt really nice. Not just torqier but really smooth everywhere with great throttle response no matter the position. It's much easier to drive in town with my light flywheel and doesn't bog or stutter as much off the line either.
Jeff's work was really nice. As far as empirical evidence I was definitely walking away from Linda on the straightaways today.
The drive this morning was great validation. the car felt really nice. Not just torqier but really smooth everywhere with great throttle response no matter the position. It's much easier to drive in town with my light flywheel and doesn't bog or stutter as much off the line either.
Jeff's work was really nice. As far as empirical evidence I was definitely walking away from Linda on the straightaways today.
#367
Power!!
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Thank Yous!
Thanks to everyone for signing up and trusting me with your money and joining together so we could afford to bring Jeff up here to us in person. Without the group participation we couldn't afford to get Jeff up here.
Thanks to Kito Autosport for having a really well set up shop and professionally run dyno. kito really knows his dyno well and had us on and off the dyno quickly so we could maximize Jeff's tuning time with each person.
Thanks to Linda for Just showing up for the fun of it and bringing Coffee, Donuts, fun, and great pictures.![Smilie](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
Thanks to Dan for helping out a couple of the guys wrench on their cars in the parking lot so they could have a good running car for the dyno session and not take up Jeff's tuning time trying to troubleshoot problems.
Thanks to Sean for bringing us Beer! Beer always makes everything better.![Smilie](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
And lastly thanks to Jeff for his service to the RX8 community. it really makes a difference having a knowledgeable guy that is also an enthusiast for our cars. He really made sure that he did the best he could with everyone's car. He took some time with each person to answer questions, give them advice and tell them what he thought their next steps should be.
Thanks again everyone!!
Ray if you're reading this I think after this weekend there will definitely be interest in having a BHR ignition solution install party next...
Thanks to everyone for signing up and trusting me with your money and joining together so we could afford to bring Jeff up here to us in person. Without the group participation we couldn't afford to get Jeff up here.
Thanks to Kito Autosport for having a really well set up shop and professionally run dyno. kito really knows his dyno well and had us on and off the dyno quickly so we could maximize Jeff's tuning time with each person.
Thanks to Linda for Just showing up for the fun of it and bringing Coffee, Donuts, fun, and great pictures.
![Smilie](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
Thanks to Dan for helping out a couple of the guys wrench on their cars in the parking lot so they could have a good running car for the dyno session and not take up Jeff's tuning time trying to troubleshoot problems.
Thanks to Sean for bringing us Beer! Beer always makes everything better.
![Smilie](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
And lastly thanks to Jeff for his service to the RX8 community. it really makes a difference having a knowledgeable guy that is also an enthusiast for our cars. He really made sure that he did the best he could with everyone's car. He took some time with each person to answer questions, give them advice and tell them what he thought their next steps should be.
Thanks again everyone!!
Ray if you're reading this I think after this weekend there will definitely be interest in having a BHR ignition solution install party next...
![Smilie](https://www.rx8club.com/images/smilies/smile.gif)
Last edited by shaunv74; 01-18-2009 at 07:45 PM.
#370
Jingle Ballzzzz!
#371
Jingle Ballzzzz!
Jeff should be waiting at the gate now for his plane.
The drive this morning was great validation. the car felt really nice. Not just torqier but really smooth everywhere with great throttle response no matter the position. It's much easier to drive in town with my light flywheel and doesn't bog or stutter as much off the line either.
Jeff's work was really nice. As far as empirical evidence I was definitely walking away from Linda on the straightaways today.
The drive this morning was great validation. the car felt really nice. Not just torqier but really smooth everywhere with great throttle response no matter the position. It's much easier to drive in town with my light flywheel and doesn't bog or stutter as much off the line either.
Jeff's work was really nice. As far as empirical evidence I was definitely walking away from Linda on the straightaways today.
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#375
Jeff brought a set of MSD coils with him with long leads, we through those on my car after every one else was done to see how much the coils were hurting things. I stupidly left my car idling for a very long time after installing the coils and before getting back on the dyno, so the engine was thoroughly heat soaked. The dyno curve was much smoother, peak HP remained unchanged. Beyond peak I gained about 6HP. And the entire power band before peak lost about 5HP. I'm guessing that if the engine wasn't heat soaked peak gains would have been around 5HP, with gains beyond peak of 10HP or so. The good thing about the heat soaked engine is that when I started the car back up after swapping back to the stock coils everyone noticed that my engine turned over a few times before firing, I had noticed this in the past but didn't think anything of it, and informed me that there's a good chance I have low compression. So that explains the soft numbers, and I may be getting a new engine courtesy of Mazda. Need to get that checked out soon.
Any ways thanks to Shaun for organizing this and thanks to Jeff for coming up hear and tuning our cars for us. It was good to meet everyone.