Dommo's Blog

Guess you need ones of those supercharger gizmos then.

That's a nice looking power curve Dom, only 7hp shy of my "more manly" 1600

That looks like quite a dip in the torque though between 3.5 and 5k and then again it falls right off at the top end.

This is mine as a comparison

I make that a mere 4bhp shy Mark

 

The scale of the graph amplifies the dips in torque a bit, but they're still a touch longer than expected. For instance at the start of my dip around 3,450, torque doesn't come back to the same level until 4,600. Where as yours only lasts for 600rpm or so.

 

Putting my head in the sand, I'd quite like to blame it all on the intake track that you get with fitting the standard airbox (complete with pattern filter). I designed pipework to have an induction kit sitting just behind one of the FW intakes, but it was coming in at over £200 so I dropped it from the build in the end.

 

It'd be nice to blame my dissatisfaction on performance on this flatspot. I generally start overtakes at 3.5k rpm and that's what I'm most disappointed in. Torque only drops off a couple of lb/ft though and to be honest I can't see the bum dyno picking that one up.

 

Hearing Stu's (the stoat) VX on throttle bodies screaming at the rollers has certainly kept superchargers off the radar!

If you put the figures into a chart that starts at zero lb/ft it looks more civilised.

 

 

Statistics... it's not about what they are, it's how you present them

Damn you and your lovely smooth curves here is mine, well only one run showing as my scanner did not pick up the run 1 plot.

 

Dom, I'm sure you're aware but don't fit a blower with the engine at 144,000 miles without rebuilding the engine.