Getting Dynoed Friday!!!
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From: Dallas-Ft. Worth
Originally Posted by Tenn01PSD350
Joe, your truck has always sounded healthy from your descriptions. You may have a very healthy HPOP. My only concern would be the top end limit of the WW. I look forward to the #s.
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From: Hampton, Maryland.
It is funny to me that people get all caught up in the numbers from a dyno. I can definitely see how it happens don't get me wrong, but the dyno is just a tool to help you understand what mods work for your truck. The numbers are all relative. If your truck puts 285HP down on one type of dyno and you sre not happy with the numbers, so you take it to another type of dyno and it says you put out 305 HP now you would be happy? Why? You haven't changed anything about your truck but which dyno you strapped it to. Why would some arbitrary numbers make you happy or sad? The true measure of your truck is not the dyno, it's the 1/4 mile, or the sled, or the trailer you hook it to and pull a hill or the Duramax you are next to at the light that you soot as you pull away from him.
The dyno is just a way of measuring the improvements the mods have made relative to what it was when stock and should be compared to itself and not numbers on another type of dyno. It's like when guys get all wrapped up in flow numbers in gasser engine heads. These guys get all torqued up about a max flow number from a head at a measurement the cam that they have in their car probably isn't even close to. Max flow numbers don't mean real world performance as there is a whole lot more to how a particular head works actually installed on the engine vs. on a flow bench. It's pretty stupid if you ask me, when actually what we want is for the car or truck to perform for us in the real world.
Just my $.02. Enjoy your truck and see what you can do with it that you couldn't before the mods and look at the dyno as just another tool like your gauges, but it's accuracy is sometimes questionable at best. The but dyno is the real thing.
The dyno is just a way of measuring the improvements the mods have made relative to what it was when stock and should be compared to itself and not numbers on another type of dyno. It's like when guys get all wrapped up in flow numbers in gasser engine heads. These guys get all torqued up about a max flow number from a head at a measurement the cam that they have in their car probably isn't even close to. Max flow numbers don't mean real world performance as there is a whole lot more to how a particular head works actually installed on the engine vs. on a flow bench. It's pretty stupid if you ask me, when actually what we want is for the car or truck to perform for us in the real world.
Just my $.02. Enjoy your truck and see what you can do with it that you couldn't before the mods and look at the dyno as just another tool like your gauges, but it's accuracy is sometimes questionable at best. The but dyno is the real thing.
Hook it, I'll pull it.
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From: Grand Lake, La.
Jason, you are so right. But you need to add the MALE EGO factor into this. I know/feel I have a strong engine and I will find a dino around here to see if mine is bigger than yours. 
This is why I love this fourm. We share our knowledge with each other, then try to compete with each other. Well, some tell everything. 
lol.
This is why I love this fourm. We share our knowledge with each other, then try to compete with each other. Well, some tell everything. lol.
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