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PostPosted: Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:06 am 
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I found the problem - it was with the actuator preload, just a little adjustment and we're on for 3.5k.

Any ideas on why the torque is dropping off so quick?

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This works out to be 373 at the flywheel. Not a bad starting point


Unless I'm reading the plots wrong the figures qoted are at the flywheel? That appears to be what it says at the top of the plot :D

But that not being the case you'll still not be seeing 373 at the fly. The hub pack thing, from what I gather typically sees circa 15% less at the hubs than the fly.

Still suspecting a creep issue unless you have a major major leak - which I think you'd hear. Can you actually hear the turbo spool before 4 1/2k?

Sounds like something fundamental is wrong to me. If the figures are flywheel then I'd expect it to be making more.........


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I've spoken to Thor - the figures are from the hubs, when i spoke to them last night they said to add 35% to get the HP at the flywheel. However i have received a mail from them this morning that states:

The figures are 100% at the hubs. The Dynapack software assumes you will add some "transmission loss factor" tlf to make the compensation back to Flywheel. We never do and leave tlf = 0. This means that the figures are hub figues. Saves arguments over how much loss one person thinks there is compared with others. Just a software printout thing.

Take your figure and scale by 1.25 (if you assume 25% loss for 4WD)

So new figure is 346HP.

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hmm, IMHO any different style of dyno shoudl only be used for comparison before and after mods - I know from watching a standard ST170 Focus on Power Engineering's rollers taht once they had applied their standrad measured loss's they actually obtained a flywheel 171bhp which was not staged!

To assume any loss figures is a risky business - they should be measured or not quoted imho. It is difficult to establish them especially at teh hubs.

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