setting ignition curves without dyno

[Jason Weir]

Dave,
    I still plan to but I never pass up the chance to fire up the
soldering iron.....

David Piper wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >



--
Jason Weir
88 Wrangler - 258 Chevy TBI
Fayetteville, North Carolina
http://home.att.net/~jweir  --- Jeep Home Page
mailto:jweir at att.net