FE Torque Curve

[Dwight]

I've been to Keith's shop several times and the last time we watched a 363 sb being dyno'ed. I ask the operator to make one pull at 2000 and he did. I have pics of the sheet but don't remember what it was. I do remember the last pull was 499.5 hp and I asked if he was going for 500. He said no! That's good enough.

Of course when the customer installs his own air filter, headers, side pipes, etc the numbers will change.

I think they prove the motor runs and it's close to the numbers they want and that's good enough.

Dwight

[DanEC]

Yeah - I'm sure if I had been paying a little more attention to the torque figures and asked the dyno guy to start the recorder earlier, he would have done anything to satisfy me. It wasn't until later that it really sunk in that for a fairly mild motor this thing was putting out a strong torque figure and I of course wondered what that peak just might be. I was guessing somewhere aroung 535 ft lbs or so until he told me the recorder starts as the torque peaked. So I guess 527 is it.

[lovehamr]

Originally Posted by Dwight

Of course when the customer installs his own air filter, headers, side pipes, etc the numbers will change. Dwight

When I dyno'ed mine locally it made it's best runs with the air cleaner in place. The headers and intermediate pipes were from my car as well because the place where I got it done could hardly spell FE. I even had to make the mounts to hook my engine to the thing. Going to a place like KC would be "Candyland"!