setting ignition curves without dyno

David Piper dapiper at one.net
Fri Nov 13 18:10:00 GMT 1998


Jason, why don't you just come downto my DynoJet in Spartanburg, SC?

TurboDave

At 11:48 AM 11/13/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Roger Heflin wrote:
>
>> That is actually more or less what the home dyno kits does.  You rig a
>>
>> tape recorder to a inductive (timing light type) connector to the tape
>>
>> recorder inputs to a spark plug wire.  You then take that data and
>> feed it inot a sound card, and the program figures out how fast your
>> engine was going at each time.  With this info and given car weight,
>> and gear, you can get pretty close to horsepower.  I would guess that
>> over the same conditions and over the same speeds that the results are
>>
>> pretty easy to repeat.  And in this case the dyno data is exactly the
>> same load as you get when you are driving.
>
>I just ordered the Home Dyno software, I should have it in a couple of
>days, I'll let everyone know how things turn out... For less than $50 I
>think it will be a fairly descent tuning tool....
>
>--
>Jason Weir
>88 Wrangler - 258 Chevy TBI
>Fayetteville, North Carolina
>http://home.att.net/~jweir  --- Jeep Home Page
>mailto:jweir at att.net
>
>
>




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