Re: K&N FIPK on the dyno

From: David Thede (tnadoman@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Aug 27 1998 - 18:44:28 EDT


I ran a horsepower test with my '97 with the G-Tech. It gave me 140'ish.
I ran the truck to redline 1st through 3rd gears. It seemed low to me.
Using the scale at Bandimere, it gave me 4600 lbs. Does the weight seem
ok? If I deduct 20% from the advertised 230hp, it gives me
about 184, that seems close to what the dyno gave Bob. I dont know why
it gave me such low horsepower...with the cat-back, K&N, ram air.

dave
'97 Sport CC V8/5-spd 4x4
homemade ram air
K&N FIPK clone
Gibson dual cat-back
http://members.xoom.com/tnadoman

>For anyone that's interested, I managed to get a couple of pulls done
on
>a DynoJet last Friday just before my JBA install.
>
>After some fussing around, we managed to get what I feel were some
>stable baseline pulls(2). I went to the trouble of re-installing the
>stock air intake just for this run. I still had the 180 T-stat
>installed(wasn't willing to back up that far<g>) but it gave me some
>idea of what rear wheel stock HP is. For the last run, I installed the
>14" K&N. I was a bit disappointed to see the rear wheel HP be so low. I
>believe our max HP run with the K&N was only about 185 HP. I think Mike
>Catlin's R/T came in at about 215+. I guess that's roughly the
>advertised difference(30 HP) between a 318 and the 360.
>
>Bottom line: I did see about a 4 HP increase with the K&N over stock.
>Put that info in the FWIW file for anyone contemplating a purchase or
>wondering what their open element might be giving them
performance-wise.
>I'll try to post the actual printout numbers later.
>
>Plan to make some fresh runs next week to see what the JBAs and JET
chip
>have gained in HP.
>
>Bob
>
>

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