Thats great Jack! I knew you were in the market
for another R/T, didn't know you found one. The
engine sounds like its in excellent shape.
GS -
>
> Well, I had to work at the NOPI Nationals today, so I took advantage of the
> Dyno they had set up to get a baseline of what the 99 SY RC R/T would be
> starting with.
>
> I figured that like most R/Ts I have seen, that it would put down about
> 180-190HP on the drums.
> This was at Atlanta Motor Speedway at 2:18PM. The temp was just right at
> about 73 degrees, and the humidity was fairly low. I would say about 69%.
> These guys are the same ones that had the dyno set up at the Mopar Nats in
> Columbus. Same dyno too.
> Only thing I didn't like is taht they didn't put the Dyno make and model
> number on the print-out, nor the temp, humidity, etc.
>
> Anyway, I did three pulls. The first was with the truck bone stock. This
> truck is a 99RC R/T with 13500 miles on her.
> The guy that operated the dyno ran with the Overdrive turned off, and he
> would allow the truck to get into 3rd gear before running it from about
> 2600RPM all the way to my specified 5000RPM.
>
> The first run was a little higher than what I expected, as I pulled a run
> of 206.8HP and 250.1ft.-lb. of torque. Peak HP was at 4500RPM, while peak
> Torque was at 4150RPM.
> For run number two, I removed the air filter and left the air filter
> housing open.
> The results from this simple step were amazing, at least to me. I gained
> exactly 13HP (219.8) and even more fun was I gained 38.3ft-lb of torque!!
> (288.4)
> Peak HP was at 4350 and peak torque was at 3650.
> Run number three was nearly identical as I changed nothing. I presume the
> truck was getting hot as I pulled a 218.5HP at 4150 and 283.4ft.-lb. of
> torque at 3300.
>
> I am glad I did it, most importantly to gain a baseline for my truck. To
> see it perform better than I expected, I was very very pleased.
>
> BTW - Most of the vehicles wee rice burners that were scraping the bottom
> of the barrel to get a 150HP rating! There was a 97 Viper GTS in line
> behind me, but I didn't get to see him run. I did get to see a late-model
> RX-7 blow an engine on the dyno though, LOL!
>
> Tell me what you guys think.
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