Power loss through the drivetrain
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Power loss through the drivetrain
I am looking to find out what kind of power loss is experienced through the drive train of a stock FD with a 5-speed. Has anyone dyno'd a low milage, completely stock FD? I know most cars have an approximate 20% loss from the flywheel to the wheel. Can anyone help me with this? I would appreciate anyone's insight.
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On a stock car, you can estimate the driveline loss at 15%. In reality, I don't think you can apply that 15% loss when you are modded as I don't think that the losses will linearly increase with horsepower output.
If you dyno 215-220 rwhp with a stock FD, it's healthy.
I hit 240 rwhp with a downpipe and cat-back, although my boost was only 7 psi above 6k. (If you want to see the plots, do a search for "dyno results" under my username.) Installing a Profec B Thanksgiving weekend so I hope to be getting a solid 10 psi till redline (unless my cat is clogged...), so I should dyno higher.
If you dyno 215-220 rwhp with a stock FD, it's healthy.
I hit 240 rwhp with a downpipe and cat-back, although my boost was only 7 psi above 6k. (If you want to see the plots, do a search for "dyno results" under my username.) Installing a Profec B Thanksgiving weekend so I hope to be getting a solid 10 psi till redline (unless my cat is clogged...), so I should dyno higher.
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I wanna dyno mine once I get the turbos fixed. Plus I will have a DP on it after the turbos are fixed and then I will work on mostly reliability mods (no performance until after the relaibility mods are done). Yet some of those reliability mods are also performance mods and will help me run cooler and better.
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Originally posted by azndisgrace
your boost is supposed to drop as you near redline
your boost is supposed to drop as you near redline
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On a stock car, you can estimate the driveline loss at 15%. In reality, I don't think you can apply that 15% loss when you are modded as I don't think that the losses will linearly increase with horsepower output.
On a stock car, you can estimate the driveline loss at 15%. In reality, I don't think you can apply that 15% loss when you are modded as I don't think that the losses will linearly increase with horsepower output.
A "healthy" 3rd gen. will put down about 215-220 RWHP, as stated above, but I've seen as much as 227. That doesn't mean that drivetrain losses were less in that car, that means that production variances resulted in an engine that made more power than others. My Z06 dyno'd 355.4 RWHP bone stock. With 15% losses that's 419 flywheel horsepower for an engine rated at 405. In this case, it might be a result of GM underrating the Z06 a little, but two other '02 Z06s that dyno'd on the same day produced horsepower in the high 340s, so production variances could also account for my numbers.
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