All:
I had a DynoPak appointment with Shawn Church at Church Automotive Testing (CAT) last week sometime as I am still trying to work out a few bugs.
He resolved the starting issue & improved RWHP & RWTQ about 30 0r so each from the baseline that he established on his Dynapak when I went in before he started tuning.
The Hennessey Performance Engineering (HPE) baseline on their Dynojet with my '09 V stock excepting for the KPE CAI installed on it were 479.90, 479.93, & 481.08 for an average of 480.30 (SAE) for RWHP & figures of 479.28, 475.74, & 474.54 for an average of 476.52 (SAE) to for RWTQ. That was at about 6250 RPM with an ARF ratio of about 11.6 t0 12.0. About standard for a 30K mile V 2 with an installed CAI.
When I picked up the car HPE gave me a chart reflecting a single run developing about 69oo RPM & #'s of 611.68 RWHP & only 538.91 RWTQ?? (SAE both) & no A/FR chart.
Went to Shawn & he did a base line on his DynaPak & got 601.35 RAHP & 552.27?? RATQ (all SAE). He tuned, got rid of the no start condition & ended up with 632.69 RAHP & 588.11 RATQ., shutting down at about 6250 RPM.
Went to Superior Automotive in Placentia & they got an average of SAE 574.49 RWHP & an average of 525.89 for 3 runs, but they showed me the A/FR increasing to a max of about 13.0 and they said that was running a tad lean. All of Superiors runs were run to a redline of about 6250 RPM & shut down.
I went to Hennesseys Monday & had the oil changed, they fixed a minor leak in the cooling system, which kept the AC from working properly, fixed a missing plastic screw at the rear bumper, and did not charge me for anything. I am very happy with Hennessey V700 package, just wished I had queried a few more items before the build.
And I know that this car is going to be a beast, and probably already is.
Headers installed hopefully next month at CAT. Maybe meth down the road. That will be the max that I am planning on going with this car. By then I will be pretty broke
Hope all's well with you guys & families.
PS:
I talked to Shawn today and he said no way am I at that A/FR, as he showed low 11's on his DynaPak.
Coming back from CAT this morning I ran up against a very sharp looking & running Stang on Alameda at about PCH. I saw him coming up behind me pretty fast and we ended up together at a light. I did not see what model of Stang it was, but it was blown, which I was about to find out. He waited & let me leave the light and I left at a very slow pace to see what he wanted to do. In less than a sec, I was doing about 10 MPH and I heard a blower scream. I hit the pedal but I don't really know if I buried it all the way down as I was afraid of breaking the rear loose.
The next thing I knew the Cad's blower was screaming, he was about a car length behind me, and the 1st to 2nd and / or the 2nd to 3rd was brutal, basically breaking the rear tires loose for about a sec. I was petrified, I had never ran the Cad that quick or hard, and i was too scared to look at the tack or speedo. I looked in the rearview, and he was about 2 -3 car lengths behind me, I tapped the brakes 3 times, and was thankful to still be alive, didn't hear any sirens, didn't see any red lights behind me. I slowed, and as he was getting onto the freeway on-ramp he gave me a thumbs up and a smile. My head was so big when I got home, I just about couldn't get it out the door. I was proud that I had actually won a race that I really had to work for.
When he got on that Stang, I thought I was in trouble. It sounded nasty. I wanna go back to racing grannies in their BMW & Mercedes soccer vans.
I expect to break a tad over 600 RWHP with the Kooks headers running through the stock muffs, a re-tune, & maybe AlkyControl & re-tune down the road.
Life's good for this old man.
Good for the Cad too.
