Info. regarding Dyno Day at EA
02 November 2007, 08:18 AM
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02 November 2007, 08:37 AM
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It was a superb day.
Both Ben and I had a great time.
Big shame about Simon's car and IMO all too easy to say "why didn't they use...blah,blah" after the event rather than saying "make sure they use..." beforehand.
As for the figures, mine seemed about right for the minimal mods done.
Both Ben and I had a great time. Big shame about Simon's car and IMO all too easy to say "why didn't they use...blah,blah" after the event rather than saying "make sure they use..." beforehand.
As for the figures, mine seemed about right for the minimal mods done.
02 November 2007, 02:04 PM
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02 November 2007, 06:43 PM
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Bibo, don't think for a moment it's your fault, all you done was to organise the day and running order, the rest was taken care of by EA.
I've organised 4 R/R days, 2 at Engine Advantages, 1 at Power Engineering and the last at WRC Technologies. I've haven't seen one car go wrong on the rollers, but with sod's law, it's bound to happen at some stage. It's not nice, and I do feel for Simon as I know what it's like to have an engine go bang!
Power Engineering are supposed to be a reputable tuning company, but when I organised the RR there, they didn't use and measuring equipment apart from the rollers, so does that make them a cowboy outfit too?
In a nut shell, EA etc are companies, so ultimately their goal is to make money and by charging £35 per car for a power run is easy money so if they hook up all the correct monitoring equipment, the less cars they can do in a day. The way they MAY view it is that it's not a tuning session so installing the widebands, det cans etc MAY be deemed as unnecessary.
Like I have said, I do feel for Simon, but can his engine failure be 100% attributed by the use of the rollers? My engine started failing doing 90MPH on a German autoban, then went bang when doing 30MPH while I was limping it to the hotel, a cause which when I stripped the engine found to be the pressure relief valve in the oil pump had seized
I've organised 4 R/R days, 2 at Engine Advantages, 1 at Power Engineering and the last at WRC Technologies. I've haven't seen one car go wrong on the rollers, but with sod's law, it's bound to happen at some stage. It's not nice, and I do feel for Simon as I know what it's like to have an engine go bang!
Power Engineering are supposed to be a reputable tuning company, but when I organised the RR there, they didn't use and measuring equipment apart from the rollers, so does that make them a cowboy outfit too?
In a nut shell, EA etc are companies, so ultimately their goal is to make money and by charging £35 per car for a power run is easy money so if they hook up all the correct monitoring equipment, the less cars they can do in a day. The way they MAY view it is that it's not a tuning session so installing the widebands, det cans etc MAY be deemed as unnecessary.
Like I have said, I do feel for Simon, but can his engine failure be 100% attributed by the use of the rollers? My engine started failing doing 90MPH on a German autoban, then went bang when doing 30MPH while I was limping it to the hotel, a cause which when I stripped the engine found to be the pressure relief valve in the oil pump had seized
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