Stock NA8 with 93kW & 244Nm @ rear wheels?!?!

[travis]

Thanks Guran. It was the actually dyno results from your garage thread that finally motivated me to put my readings up for discussion.

[Steampunk]

It could just be a matter of using a wrong setting in the dyno software. Best to ask Mania to explain.

If people are happy with the figures it produces, why change it?

cal·i·brate
[kal-uh-breyt]
verb (used with object), cal·i·brat·ed, cal·i·brat·ing.
1. to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).

[93_Clubman]

Posted 25 Nov 2012:

I recently had Mania fit a low kilometre NB 2000 year model engine to my 1991. It has a Mania CAI, XForce extractors & 2.5in exhaust, a special hand made intake cross pipe out of polished stainless, BP4W head & manifold, & a really painstaking tune.

The result was 104 rwkw.
The torque was reported at 281nm, for what that is worth.
Conditions were an ambient temperature of 21 degrees.

[evil_weevil]

Like drag cars/race cars - if it makes a certain number the drag times/lap times will back it up.

My car makes 82rwkw with exhaust, intake and tune. very basic mods. does a 1.12.7 @ Wakie.
its been on 3 dyno's all up and these 2 were 3 years apart, and out west, and up north. both runs made around .5 of a kw difference with the same mods at the time being intake and exhaust. now all dynos are different, and dyno's are more for a tuning tool.
the 3rd dyno, Mania, it went on, made 95rwkw or so with intake and exhaust.

as long as you go back to mania when doing mods, and go back on the duno it'll give you an idea if you made an improvement or not.
i.e. fit intake and exhaust and car makes 101rwkw then you know there has been an improvement.
but keep in mind, it may not make the number on another dyno.
just as long as the car is healthy and you are enjoying it, at the end of the day its a number!

[travis]

Well if what you say is the case then it is very disappointing.

Firstly, I have no plans to increase power as I'm trying to keep my car a classic. This was an exercise purely out of curiosity and now it seems I have wasted my money.

Secondly, even if I did have plans to improve power why should I now need to commit to a single dyno? As a paying customer, it is well within reason that I expect an accurate reading regardless of whichdyno I choose to use. This is a piece of equipment that takes measurements, hence it is expected to produce accurate readings.

Thirdly, if Mania decide to recalibrate their dyno than I might as well throw any prior readings out the window as I no longer have a baseline to work with.