Anyone who has lived on a healthy diet of off-road and performance magazines has gotten a pretty good taste of the dyno process, even if it's just served on the printed page. It looks pretty exciting: ...
If you want to dyno test your tuner car, you can probably find a couple of good facilities in any nearby major city. If you want to do similar testing at a smaller scale, though, you might find it’s ...
Gearhead vehicle discussions often go something like this: "How fast?" "What's the e.t.?" "How much boost?" "What's the horsepower and torque?" Whether bragging or fact, the answers are usually the ...
Dynamometer tests are used to measure a car's torque and rpm response. But how do they get that information? And how reliable ...
Over the past decade, chassis dynos have proliferated across the country, in theory making it practical for the masses to evaluate the performance of their engine as installed in the vehicle and ...
How much power do you lose through the drivetrain? The "experts" claim about a 1517-percent power-drop "at the wheels" with a manual trans compared to flywheel numbers; as high as 27 percent with an ...
I'm sure you've watched a dyno video or two. The car thuds through the gears, slowly roars up, rising to a rev limit crescendo and zoom! It quickly winds down. This is not the case if the engine ...
Nick's Garage is a go-to YouTube channel for Mopar enthusiasts. For years, fans have watched him run countless legendary engines on his dyno that are destined for some of the greatest Dodge and ...