Dyno day was a success!
Being just a 20 minute drive away meant a fairly leisurely start as they didn't want me there until 10am and knowing the setup there now made getting the car off the trailer and into the dyno pretty plain sailing. By 11:30 we were strapped in and sipping coffee.
Loading up the evening before
All set!
In fact this may have been the smoothest running dyno session I've ever experienced. No delays from a car on the rollers before me; no software or dyno issues and no gremlins with the car.
So we went right through pretty much without stopping. Building up the site maps from 1000rpm up to 3500rpm afterwhich you can set the software learning the nature of the engine and it populates the whole map ready to be tested.
Once the power runs started there was very little tweaking to do. The first full power run yielded 205bhp which I would have been happy with but Steve could see that the engine wanted more, so a bit more adjustment and we went again. This time 212.4bhp. Much more like it and almost identical to the same spec we ran back in the day and with 158lbft of torque it should be nice in an 850kg car.
I do wonder whether the race engine is worth the effort!
And as the cameras were set up in the car I recorded the last power run. It’s quite unnerving doing 126mph in 5th gear with a wall just 10ft in front of you!
