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Old 02-27-2005, 02:11 PM
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I'd like to see the guy send his ECU to RacingBeat - to see if they can duplicate things.
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Just got home...I'll post an excel graph off the Canscan log of his car inn a bit

I wish I had more time to log a lot more values...to see if anything was different.
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Here's the pics of the Dyno Graph for run 3...don't have the 206HP run...might have been on the all gear run?? Also the CanScan Graph with timing and A/F values.

Note..the 12.05 flatline values over 75K are all righer than that......it stops reading at that value.....could be a lot richer. Renwar1...post a copy of the Picture if you have it from the dyno

This is in 5th gear.....
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Old 02-27-2005, 04:10 PM
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since you posted a graph first, he can't get mad at me





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i don't understand that last dyno...

going through the gears?
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Originally Posted by neit_jnf
i don't understand that last dyno...

going through the gears?
instead of a single gear dyno you run through the gears to the top

ie 1st gear up to 9k shift to 2nd
rev 2 9k, shift to 3rd, and so on
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Close, but we went thru 1-4th to get up to about 2500-3000 RPM, then shifted to 5th and gave the thumbs up to the crew and put it to WOT. Then we watched the RPM's and Canscan to know when to let off and shift into nuetral....

We also did a couple of spirited dynos by rapping out each gear to see what the data logs would produce on dan's laptop canscan. It seems 4th gear pulled the highest doesn't it...

Is that right Dan?

Where's "renwar1" when you need him??

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Looks like 4th Gear gives the highest results on this car. dmp did an all gear run...his maxed out in 3rd/4th....so I think 3rd and 4th gear dynos will be better to run....less wear and tear on the car...and on the dyno
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Originally Posted by dannobre
Looks like 4th Gear gives the highest results on this car. dmp did an all gear run...his maxed out in 3rd/4th....so I think 3rd and 4th gear dynos will be better to run....less wear and tear on the car...and on the dyno

except his hp peak - his highest was in 5th gear
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Duh....6 spd......never could count too well :D

Peak in 5th..............
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Originally Posted by dmp
One oddity I noticed yesterday...

All/most of us dyno'd about mid-140s lbs-ft of torque...that's about a 10% loss from the factory rating of ~160....I wonder why the car appears to lose much less tq thru the drivetrain as it does HP.
I thought that was interesting, too. I dyno'd my car with all of those guys, but I brought my S2000 rather than the RX-8. My torque was 145 corrected, 152 uncorrected, which was not all that much higher than most of the RX-8s ran, but my HP was 210 corrected, and 219 uncorrected. Since the engines have very similar torque curves, and both rev very high, (and are rated very similarly--my S2000 is rated 240 hp and 162 ft-lbs of torque), I don't understand why fairly similar torque numbers translated into such different HP numbers.
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Originally Posted by 124Spider
I thought that was interesting, too. I dyno'd my car with all of those guys, but I brought my S2000 rather than the RX-8. My torque was 145 corrected, 152 uncorrected, which was not all that much higher than most of the RX-8s ran, but my HP was 210 corrected, and 219 uncorrected. Since the engines have very similar torque curves, and both rev very high, (and are rated very similarly--my S2000 is rated 240 hp and 162 ft-lbs of torque), I don't understand why fairly similar torque numbers translated into such different HP numbers.

Yup...doesn't make a lot of sense.

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bump - anyone care to offer opinion on the % lost ?
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Originally Posted by dmp
Yup...doesn't make a lot of sense.

Great meeting you, btw
Man,,, I wished I could've gone to the dyno. I will try to Join next time!!
BTW, I think S2000 has more HP since S2000's torque in the high RPM range doesn't drop as much as ours.. HP = (Torque X RPM)/5250....
So the difference in HP between S2000's and RX8's can be explained by how much torque you have at the peak HP rpm... etc not how much peak torque you have

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Hummmm not to down play your results BUT in my experience the higher the gear the dyno is the more inaccurate the results are because of the higher wheelspeed and for some reason the inaccuracy always favors higher horsepower numbers. This is just a **** in the wind but if rotarygod or mazdamanic could explain why?

Abbid my best dyno was 187rwhp in 3rd gear. I did a 5th gear dyno once but it was on a different dyno it resulted in 187, the 3rd gear on this dyno was 178 so I may be on to something. Don't have a soft copy of it; I did it to see what the leanest points for gas mileage were.

Now lets also remember that the Rx-8 runs different maps in each gear due to increased load on the engine. For example the point at which you start getting lean in 3rd gear is much later then the point you start getting leaner in 5th gear.
Not sure how but this may be helping you, but it may be a possibility.

Did you remove the mufflers? If not what the hell is that thing shooting flames, if you remove the mufflers of course you’re going to make more horsepower, then normal.

Also was a 2004 or 2005 Rx-8, although it’s not that big of a deal because ITO did Dyno 196 or 198 on his 2004 stock car.


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