F-Body dyno day

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Watched the local F-Body club run on my friend's dyno today. I didn't get to see all of them run but I saw enough LS1 to get a pretty good idea of how they run and an LT1 too. Most of the stockish LS1 were getting just over 300RWHP, the ones with a few more mods like headers got as high as 320RWHP or thereabouts. The little air cleaner lid they can get is worth a solid 5RWHP which was pretty cool IMO. One of the more modified units before I got there made something like 360RWHP I believe - not sure of mods. The single LT1 car made like 265RWHP which is supposedly normal. The one nitrous car I saw run had a 100HP jet but only 700PSI of bottle pressure, over 1KPSI is optimal. It picked up 136RWHP over it's N/A runs I think and a ton of torque. It made like 440+HP and a TON of torque. Numbers might be a bit off but that's probably close

 

Kind of interesting that these guys were so excited over the HP numbers. From a mostly stock car that's pretty good I guess but the brand new BONE STOCK Lightning dyno'ed not long ago made like 360RWHP and something like 425+lbs. Okay, it weighs 4Klbs but what's the F-body weigh these days? Granted my car made 300RWP too but I know that's wrong (lol). Thankfully my car weighs alot less but I guess I do feel like I really need to figure out my power issues, hope the EFI conversion allows me to see full power. A shame none of these guys had a blower but the nitrous car was REAL impressive. Barely moved around on the dyno when the juice was hit but it sure performed well. That was only a 100HP hit too Hooking that torque would sure be touhg I'd think.

 

Ah well, thought some of us might be interested in the power levels seen. Headers, intake mods, and other little things were incremental power adders. The air lid seemed to be a pretty good idea for the F-body guys - hardly any labor for a decent HP increase at the wheels. (shrug) Oh, and LS1 noticably stronger than the LT1 (duh).