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| anthony |
 Apr 6 2004, 12:39 PM
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I've been watching Sports Car Revolution on Speed lately. Of course most of the cars they feature are Japanese but I really like that they put everything through a dyno. The balance bling bling and performance mods pretty well.
Anyway, they are doing an Acura RSX project right now. They fitted the car with a big brake kit - you know, big rotors and big calipers. Their times around the track didn't really improve even though they were faster around the corners because they could brake later. After dyno testing they came to the conclusion that even though the big brake kit was lighter than the stock brakes it resulted in a 7 hp loss at the wheels because of the increased rotating weight of the big rotors. I thought it was a pretty interesting result. |
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anthony Big Rotors = less horsepower at the wheels Apr 6 2004, 12:39 PM
phantom914 I don't think that a dyno, which measures hors... Apr 6 2004, 12:53 PM synthesisdv I am not so sure. The rotors were much larger even... Apr 6 2004, 01:06 PM Mueller QUOTE
phantom914 Mueller,
Are you saying that these dyno's are... Apr 6 2004, 01:19 PM Mueller yes.....in fact with these type of dyno's. one... Apr 6 2004, 01:21 PM anthony Like I said, they put all their mods through a dyn... Apr 6 2004, 01:21 PM phantom914 phantom914 OK. I guess this also explains how some manufactur... Apr 6 2004, 01:32 PM anthony It doesn't seem like a lie though.
Aren... Apr 6 2004, 01:36 PM SirAndy tat2dphreak IMHO: the "at the wheels dyno" is best used when y... Apr 6 2004, 01:51 PM phantom914 QUOTE
Dave_Darling Actually, this type of dyno is meant to cost one h... Apr 6 2004, 02:49 PM  |
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