Megasquirt dyno day Options

[Bleyseng]

Blair and I made it to the Blood Enterprises shop and met up with Dave Hunt just in time. Kevin showed up a few minutes later and we got to watch Dave convince the owner that this is the day scheduled to do the dyno work and we weren't going away.
Finally, things were straighten out and the car got on the dyno. Dave was running his laptop to tune the car while the dynoguy was operating the car on the dyno. Made several baseline runs so Dave could calibrate his O2 sensor software to the dyno set up. Then the first real pass the 74 2.0L made 73.5hp, not too bad. Then the work started with multiple runs adjusting the A/F curve trying to get the mix close and flat. Had to big spikes in it that had to be fixed. Almost 2 hours later the last pass produced 80.5hp and a better fuel curve without the big spikes.
I test drove the car and it was really smooth, lots of torque.
Geoff

[rhodyguy]

it was interesting, and there were a few humorus moments. i think that the guy running the test was more accustomed to verticle gate shifters in big american iron. one run he put it in reverse. the car started crab crawling sideways across the drums. ' WHOA, YOU'VE GOT THE CAR IN REVERSE!!" geoff, blair and i were standing behind the the car at the time (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) . "ah, you guys might want to stand off to one side". who says the shifters in these car can be a bit vague. don't feel bad about the money we throw at our cars. there was a nova/chevell there w/ a buick turbo v6 grand am engine, more other mods than i can remember. $40-50 g min. when did the topics/ replies start running so wide across the screen?

kevin