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Thought some of you maybe intrested in this...copied from SVT Performance..
Today we had the NVLOPE (Northern Virginia Lightning Owners and Performance Enthisusaist (sp?)) Dyno Day at Excessive Motorsports in Manassas, VA. I think there were just right around 10 trucks there. There were about 3-4 trucks before mine, and when we put mine on the dyno, the a/f was reading VERY, VERY lean (18.0), so Chris got on it a few times to see if hte a/f would come down and it wouldn't......he played with the chip to see if that was the problem. Well, to be safe he didn't do a full pull with the truck, but before he let off it pulled 345hp/and I think around 420 tq. I wasn't disappointed with that.....Then he put a 02 True Blue with 3500 miles on the dyno and it was the SAME THING. So, he knew something was up. He replaced the filter and the wide band sensor on his A/F gauge that that was the culprit. Pshew. I thought I had some serious things wrong with my truck.

So then, we put mine back on the dyno. I was somewhat impressed with the numbers my truck pulled with the minimal mods it has (see sig). On the street side it pulled 360hp/421tq, and then on the 'race' side it pulled a best of 383hp and a best tq of 461. I was happy. However, it could use retuned and pull some more ponies out of it. It was way rich across the board. Heres the 'race side' dynos.



Before me some 02/03 trucks one with a 5# and some few minor bolt ons put down some where around 396 and another with similar mods broke the 400/500hp mark.

All in all it was a good time.

Sweet! I saw one Lightning on the dyno....450 Hp and 499 Tq!

Lots more power to be had out of that! Thats rich!

Nice runs. My uncle put down 402rwhp/506rwtq a few weeks ago in his Harley-Davisdon F-150. That 6lb. pulley is killer. I wish the Contour could gain power off of stuff like that. Can't imagine what that power feels like in a Lightning. Time to Mustang hunting!!

Edit: We wanna see 400rwhp!!!

Yup, could probably get close to 400 out of it with a retune...I don't know if that is in its future or not.

BTW, a 6# lower on a HD, is equal to a 4# lower on a L. They HDs, put out 2# less boost stock...

Originally posted by beyondloadedSE:

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Lots more power to be had out of that! Thats rich!

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That's weak Ryan...





j/k man

I agree there is still some good power locked away in a dyno tune.




I'd still race you though.


From 100mph on... I bet my HP/lb & drag coefficient beats your monster torque brick.


Though I bet you could pull my car and still run the same 1/4 mile...

I'd love to have your torque curve... Hell, I'd love to have your truck.

At risk of sounding like a newbie how do they get an auto to not shift gears (particularly downshift) on the dyno? Also, are they locking out the overdrive and dynoing in 3rd?

I know with mercedes on the dyno, they have to roll into the throttle real REAL easy.

Its probably the same thing, lock out the Over drive and roll into the throttle real slow.

Basically. O/D off, and they took it up to about 60 and rolled into it pretty hard. My VB is pretty touchie and the dyno operator acidentally downshifted it once :-)

Originally posted by Pudmunkie:

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I know with mercedes on the dyno, they have to roll into the throttle real REAL easy.

Its probably the same thing, lock out the Over drive and roll into the throttle real slow.

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So it sounds like it's just a little tricky, but nothing too complicated. Sounds like getting the low end tuned my be a little more tricky if you can't get on WOT without the car shifting.
Thanks for the info.