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Old 01-30-2003, 03:10 AM   #1
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Just wanted to thank Frodo err.. I mean Steve (Theansweris42) for hosting these! Actually, you guys should thank him - I've already seen them! :lol:

http://home.eckerd.edu/~bordelsr/

The boost one was taken on an older crappy camera that we had focused in on the guage. We needed to get a baseline for where we were with the 4" pulleys.

Cruising2 is another "boring" video of us driving the car over to the dyno. No trailer queens here! It's still sputtering & not running right, but we're getting the cooling issues taken care of. My friend tried to get better footage for you all by holding the camera up. As you can tell, the penalty was crappy sound as the wind hit the mike!

Dyno 2 was our second run. The car was running so rich that we flamed through 600 degree aircraft quality tubing. You can see the tubes flailing around at the end. That is because the exhaust from the car had collapsed the rigidity & was sucking the life out of them! Not good...

Dyno3 is by far the best video. We got it leaned up a little. It still wasn't running 100%, but as you can tell from my reaction it felt the best of all the runs. This was at 3/4 throttle with arcing spark plugs & about 13 psi boost. We were turning 900 pounds of torque in the 3,000 rpm range. Scary. When we get this thing tuned up & drop some real boost in there, you guys are going to see some of the craziest numbers ever recorded in a streetable C3. I'm looking forward to pegging the dyno!

FirstPlay is the splash screen a friend of mine made for the DVD. Once we get some better footage, I will make a production DVD to distribute.

SettingUpTheDyno is me being a goofball & trying to back the thing up. Please note that the dyno test is done 10 feet in the air. Very scary sensation with this much power when you are staring at the garage ceiling...
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Old 01-30-2003, 04:57 PM   #2
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After watching all that, I am Dying to see this thing running flat out on the pavement!

Awesome car!
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Old 01-31-2003, 02:48 AM   #3
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Going to have to hook up with you and see this thing some day. Sure beats my measly 400RWHP/422RWTQ Z28 ;)
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amazing :chevy

One question tho. I replied in your c3 post and nobody answered. mabey someone here will answer. I may be wrong tho.

I thought you were supposed to dyno your car in the 1:1 gear (4th). If your in 5th doesnt that affect the numbers somehow? Looks like in the video you tell the guy that you are in 5th gear before you gun it. :confused: Does it matter?
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You are correct about making your dyno runs in whichever gear results in a 1:1 ratio. On the Richmond 6spd that gear is 5th.

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You are correct about making your dyno runs in whichever gear results in a 1:1 ratio. On the Richmond 6spd that gear is 5th.

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Thank you !!!!!!
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