dyno ramblings and spec e30 dyno sheets

At the last Thunderhill race I attended the top 4 Spec E30 cars were put on a dyno at tech. The purpose of the dyno was informational, though I suspect the outcome was contributed to the great Spec E30 dyno library, which if the forums are to be believed may lead to a max dyno rule. Independent of the rule stuff, I suspect if there were local outliers they'd get a lot of scrutiny. I don't think they've published the dyno sheets, so this is from memory but the top 4 cars were putting out 147rwhp to 157rwhp. The highest hp car had the lowest peak torque, and vice versa. Kinda strange.

Anyway, today a guy on the E30 yahoo group asked for a stock E30 dyno graph. It made me think about the above, and then I dug up the link to the spec e30 dyno forum post on spece30.com. You'd expect something like that to be easy to find, but it's not for various reasons (I have a long suppressed rant about how spece30.com is an internet island).

I should probably put my car on a dyno one of these days to get a quantitative baseline. I'm also told that the big kids play games with the air fuel mixture while on the dyno to tune for a few extra hp. No hurry though. I suspect this would take away one of my excuses, since I don't feel like I have problems keeping up with the Joneses in a straight line.

Enough dyno ramblings. I'll post about my latest escapades in race car work (rebuilt head) and other car hijinks (24Hrs of LeMons?) when I get the chance.