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Well, I finally got my Eldo dynoed, and finally got round to posting it.
236.2 horsepower, 292.8 torque. STD Ath the wheels. Assuming a theoretical horsepower loss of 25% due to automatic tranny, likely have 285 Horsepower at the crank, and a 5% loss of torque (numbers being told to me as average losses through fwd automatic trannies, feel free to correct me if these estimates are off) 315 torque at the crank. Those crank figures are educated guesses, tis all, the STD wheel power is accurate though. Also learned a slightly odd fact, though maybe not so odd. 2nd gear will take my car to 90 mph. I hadn't really noticed that. Ah well, tis my dyno test on a 1997 Cadillac Eldorado (base model) with just a set of high flow mufflers, all else stock. Enjoy contour buddies.

please my huffy puts it out better then that.

no man good numbers. but you car cost 2 times more then ours did brand new so i would expect more then us. good job thou. oh yeha i runn all rockford audio to.

What was the humidity and elevation when/where you got the dyno done?

That's a pretty large FWD torque number... hmmmm torque....

Sea-Level, Florida Humidity, ~60Degrees, at the Siboney Turbo Center in Orlando (Home of THE Turbo SVT.

-Chris

Don't think I'm all that special Demon... your torque is more low end than mine. I don't get that 295 until about 4000 rpm....

I thought the V8 Northstars have 300hp/tq?

Cadillac Cadillac Cadillac Syle.

Depends on the particular package. I have a base model, 275 horse at 5250, 300 torque at 4000, any *T* models, ETC, DTS, STS, etc, have the 300 horse at 5600, 295 torque at 4250 if I recall. I know the hose and torque on both. I know at what rpm's on the 275/300 version. I'm not positive on the 300/295 revs. I do know that the 300 horse version does rev higher though. Either way, tis a fun motor to have. But as you see, either way, everything's high end. No low end torque sadly.

wish my cars had that tourque... :p

Wish my car didn't weigh 4000 lbs.... It needs to torque to get rollin.