JIM...i got her dynoed!

[Blue02wrx]

here's the pic of the dyno plot.

http://www2.freepichosting.com/Images/117910/0.jpg

[JRCivic]

KEWL !!!
Glad to see you finally got that pig strapped down.

I find your graphs quite curious... do you have any clue why your torque drops like an anvil above 4500 ??? The immense torque that your car makes just as the turbo spools up is staggering... its a shame it seems to fall off almost as fast. If it were to hold flat, you would be making some serious HP around 6500 rpm.

Now, run back to the dyno with the 280 and lets see what that bucket will do...

[JRCivic]

One more thing:

Have the dyno operator set the correction factor to SAE on your next trip so that we can see a properly corrected graph.

Another semi-related thought:

The next time you go to your local 1/8th mile track, try shifting the car at 5000 rpm while holding the gas pedal to the carpet... the chances of you over-revving are very small since you are shifting more than 1500 rpm early... and this should put you right back into that really JUICY torque spike with the next gear without losing exhaust velocity. See if you can improve on that low 8 second pass...

[Blue02wrx]

i am putting drag radials on it tomorrow and shooting for 7's. it falls off because boost falls off. we removed a vacuum canister for weight purposes and i guess we need it now but we are in the process of building one for cheap. i went a 8.22 @ 84.4 with a 1.90 60' time on street tires...oh about holding the gas down, i have to, it's an automatic. here are some pics if you are interetsed http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show...hreadid=460023

the boost spiked at 16psi on the dyno and fell off to about 10 by redline which by the way i don't know where that is. when i did the swap the dash harness from a turbo and non turbo don't hookup, so all i got is gas. i have added, boost, a/f, oil pressure, water temp, and ammeter.

[gsrteggie]

just curious.... any reason why you chose a automatic....

to me it takes no talent to drive/race one...

[Blue02wrx]

we have found that an automatic does better at the drag strip. almost all of the drag cars around here and arghuably around the country use automatics. the automatic in a sport compact may indeed be slower at the track and less fun to drive but at the track the th350, and glides are far superior. there are even class differences when you race. most clutch cars compete in a gearjammer class. most foot brakes and others have advantages over them. oh also a 5-speed destroys rear ends in a 280. we have pulled a 1.59 on BFG drag radials in a stock auto 280 turbo on go go juice.

[Blue02wrx]

no this was the 280... the dyno is 2 wheel drive, a awd dyno is in charlotte but i need a bunch of time to tune it myself unless i fly someone in to help.

[JRCivic]

It appears I was initially confused as to which car got strapped down to the dyno... I thought this was a graph of the WRX's power/torque output.

My bad.

Having said that... spend another $50 and put the BLUE car on the dyno !!!