New Chasis Dyno sheets from 4/9/2000.
It looks as though my latest round of mods have been even more effective than I had hoped. I was really only shooting for 470rwhp, but managed to just tip off 500RWHP and 456RWTQ!
The Torque Converter clutch seemed to be having trouble holding, that caused the drop in the curve on the top end. The R's would suddenly kick up when the converter started slipping. On some pulls it started slipping much sooner, messing up my graph. As it turns out I think the converter slip was caused by low transmission fluid. Not a big deal, but it kept making my curves fall of at the top end. Oddly enough, the best numbers of the day were produced with 2 exhaust pipes plugged! I generally plug 2 of the 4 exhaust outlets for daily driving just to reduce the noise level, I was curious how much they hurt power, I guess they don't. Peak tork was down, but low end torque and top end hp were both up. None of it enough to feel though.
This was the first pull of the day and the only pull where the converter clutch held through the entire pull. Not my best numbers of the day, best graph though.
For this pull I left the converter unlocked. I did this pull just to compare against non locking converters. You can see the exagerated torque curve. However I was suprised at the amount of power lost when the converter is slipping. 30rwhp spent just slipping the converter.
OLD Dyno from Aug 1999. Hoover was capable of 11.0 Naturally Aspirated 1/4 miles at that time. What I like is that the NOS pull isn't to far ahead of the current NA pulls. See I knew I didn't need that NOS crutch any longer :)
