Went down yesterday and visited with Dyno Dean and John as they had a "motley mix" dyno day.

I say that as there was a wide range of vehicles seeing what they were (or in some cases "were not") made of

There was a S-10 truck w/ 4.3 Vortech that put down 162 at the wheels, an early 90's Mustang LX 5.0 that churned out 199.78....I guess we could be kind and "Technically" round up to 200 for him, hell it is american muscle...errr at least American

Some young dude threw is Volvo on and it chugged along to a high 90 RWHP run, that made me feel pretty good about "The Cav" as it made 114 FWHP on these very rollers a couple years ago

A Porshe 944 went on the rollers and made 205 ish RWHP, looked like hell, smashed up, cracked windshield but screw that he knew where to spend his money, hell with the looks, he was going to get some quality dyno time and the only place to do that is at New England Dyno and Tuning.

As most of you guys know that is a place I go to do my dynoing and I highly recommend going down there to get a pre season read on your ride as the track will be opening in 32 days

Keeping with that theme I took my buddies 98 Z/28 LS-1 down to throw it on the rollers for him as we wanted to get a baseline on it before I start talking him into making some mods.

I made four pulls and hooked up the A/F meter to see what was going on and the A/F ratio was good 13's.

I was pleased with the results, it made 290.74 RWHP and 309.62 RWTQ.
It is a stock LS-1 w/ K&N filter (stock lid) and Flowmaster cat back.

And that is why a trip to NEDT is the great thing to do, you can tell both cars are making equal power (my LS-1 Z/28 made 287 / 306) but mine goes better and what's the difference.....it's the Vigilante which will be the first thing I talk him into. My buddies Z feels much slower but if they are making basically the same power then it's time to upgrade the converter.

Marc

P.S. The "Tomato" is up and running again and will be ready for track duty on 4/2