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Old 08-08-2014, 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by blykins View Post
I'll see if Gary will give me the numbers. If I remember correctly though, he wouldn't let the operator pull the engine up as high as we did on the engine dyno, so the results will be skewed. Also, the carb was set up in the car so that the linkage wouldn't let it open up all the way. Gary found it later and noted that it felt like a completely different car at WOT.
I believe that could be due to the removal and reinstall to address the head gaskets and or the intake gasket... then again it could have simply been the stretch in the throttle cable.

The main difference in the car he mentioned to me was pulling off the dry sump.

But yeah, the chassis dyno is a world of difference in setting up the car with the engine. Too bad ours was not completely installed when Gary's car went through since it would have been good to baseline it against 40 other or so engines in the same car by different builders etc.

Keep working on the charts, it's a great resource to offer.
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