Re: dyno tests and TB's

From: Bob Tom (tigers@bserv.com)
Date: Tue Oct 26 1999 - 23:35:45 EDT


At 11:23 PM 10/26/99 -0400, you wrote:
>I've seen how everyone is dyno-testing their trucks and finding out that
>some of the modified TB's are actually causing a loss of power, but feeling
>to the driver that there has been a tremendous gain. Why is this?
>I've got a B&F Stage 1 right now, and the power gain was noticeable to
>me. Has anyone dyno'd their truck with one of these? If so, was their a gain
>or loss over the stock TB?

Doug

I don't know about what the dyno would say (none around my neck of the woods
that I know of) but, on the track, I dropped out of the 15.4s to 15.2s
(probably, high 15.1s without the headwind) with the stage 1 tb change.
Had to be real gains in torque and HP to do that.

Bob. Southern Ontario, Canada.
'97 FR CC Sport, 5.2L, 3.55 SG, auto.
Racing weight: 4,350lb ET: 14.934 Trap speed: 90.78 mph



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