Well, had the car dyno'd at Reinhart Racing here in town using a Dynojet. They really tune Ford products ('stangs, Cobras, Marauders, Lincolns, etc), but they are a Vortech dealer.

Anyway, got to pulls in 4th, 2 in 3rd. The first two were interesting: car was at 210.0hp/259.5tq and 212.2hp/259.6tq. Whoa. Apparently, 4th is the wrong gear!!!

The good news was 3rd gear yielded 222.5hp/220.7tq and 223.9hp/224.0tq. This is about what I expected, though the tq is about 5 units higher than I thought.

For comparison purposes, this was done here in Jax. It's 65 degrees and the humidity is at 92%. My old car, a 2002 TL-S with intake, headers, chip, flywheel ran a 233.7hp/196.7tq. This was done in Atlanta, and it was about 35 degrees outside with about 50% humidity. That car also regularly ran 14.2xx-14.3xx at the track, though always had terrible traction problems--even with newer Cooper and Nitto tires.

My car is bone stock now, and has the 19's. I am going to take it to Orlando Speedworld and see what it does. I am expecting similar times since it hooks up rather well with little squat (sport suspension package).

That being said, it's got right at 1k miles and really isn't fully broken in. I have my Royal Purple synthetic sitting beside me, ordered a Motordyne plenum spacer and am ordering the JDM Infiniti CAI as we speak. I'll do those things in a couple of weeks and then dyno it again with about 2,500 miles on it to see what it sits at then. I am only going to add an exhaust in a couple months, then drive it to about 20k miles before going FI and selling the CAI to some lucky person.

Well, wish me luck tonight...

 

Can you believe I drove all the way down there (138 miles) and they were closed!!! No sign out front, no differing message when calling them, nothing on their website--NOTHING as to why. It quit raining at like noon, so I don't get it. Needless to say I am pissed, but there were about 10-15 other cars that showed up and were pissed, too...

 

That is the strangest 4th gear pull I have ever seen.

Are you MT or AT?

 

Also, are those numbers SAE corrected or uncorrected?

 

Sorry to hear that. The track shut down for about 20 minute due to a brand new M# breaking its driveshaft. Then as soon as the track was cleaned up, it started raining. They officially announced that the track would be rained out around 8:15-8:30. I know for sure that I am going back this Wednesday for my rain check. Would you want to head down and meet a few FGC members?

 

corrected from what I was told, and I have the AT. The torque numbers baffled us as well...The guy literally had no explanation...

Maybe I'll be out again Wednesday, but I gotta know for sure it'll be open before driving all the way down there again!!!