Wanna waste a day and ....

[chrleb1]

... . fuel, money and so on. Well, just go to the dyno store's next event. It was a whole lot of fun to drive 7 hours to see a stock truck make almost 400 hp. Now i know what you are thinking, "Hhmmmm, I never thought i would see the day that a stock diesel pickup would make 400 hp at the ground. " Just a quick word of advise. GET THE DYNO WORKING RIGHT BEFORE YOU HOST AN EVENT! Also, a set up to get the exhaust outside would be great too.

 

[DieselLady]

I concur. The only thing that made it worth while was the friends and conversation. Seems to me that if you are in business to run a dyno, you should know how to work the dyno.

 

[driverno8]

Sorry guys/gals for the mess today from all of us Dodge Truck World. All of us over there are torqued from what went down today. We specifically asked them if they could do diesels. They kept telling us we were fine. For us as a chapter, that's the second dyno shop this year that's fallen through on their promises on diesels. We had a guy show up from Bullhead, AZ today. 4+ hours each way. Another from Fresno. All for nothing. We all feel the same way you do. Sorry.

 

[BTighe]

well thats a bummer. i need to get on that dyno.

 

[catoiler]

Yep I asked how long it was going to be at 3:30 and he told me to look through the list and see who was still there. Hell with that I had a lot of things at home to do so that was it for me!

 

[JGheen]

Sorry to hear about your bad luck there guys, that place is a fluke of a "Dyno Store. " Not trying to say "I told you guys so" but I gave somewhat a warning on the other thread that the dyno is an inertia dyno with 1800lb rollers which is definately not suitable at all for our trucks, which I soon learned after I got some answers out of the owner as to what was up with his dyno. I got screwed to guys, so I am in the same boat with all of you. If we are to dyno on any kind of "interia" dyno we need the rollers to be at least 5000+lbs each to get any kind of accurate ramp rate for measuring power.

That shop is basically some guy who came up with the idea of "lets buy a dyno and open up a shop without knowing anything about the dyno I am buying or dynoing vehicles period for that matter. " That company "DynoCom" is a fluke of a chassis dyno manufacturer as well since they don't even make proper dynos for diesels. Which should tell Mr. Dyno Store he has no business even owning a diesel. I couldn't believe some of the supposed factual statements that "DynoCom" would make on their site, such as "ALL CHASSIS DYNAMOMETER MANUFACTURERS CURRENTLY USE THE SAME EDDY-BRAKES (WHICH ARE THE MOST EXPENSIVE COMPONENTS IN THE SYSTEM) and "SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT FEATURES FOR ACCURACY AND CONTROL ARE THE FEEDBACK CONTROL RATEs FOR THE EDDY-BRAKE POWER ABSORPTION UNIT and SPEED SENSOR RESOLUTION. DYNOCOM's FEEDBACK CONTROL RATE IS 1000 times per second AND SPEED RESOLUTION IS 100 TIMES PER REVOLUTION. THIS IS THE FASTEST IN THE INDUSTRY. " OOOOOH!! Wow, they log their dynos @ 1000Hz data save rate, which doesn't mean a damn thing but having more data to sort through when your done dynoing. Even if they were running 10Hz or even 100Hz save rates they would still get the same data, but I guess they think more of the same data is always better.

Oh well, one of these days we will hit a dyno that will give us the numbers we're looking for. What about AFE's dyno, don't they know how to dyno diesels since they have had dyno days in the past and don't they pretty much manufacture parts just for diesels??



Joe

 

[chrleb1]

Joe,

Were you on I-5 yesterday morning? Justin (hemijustin) and I were cruisin down there. Gave it a little smoke when you were getting off the freeway.

 

[JGheen]

Yeah, it was me, I just got done washing the truck for my trip upstate and I like to just run up and down the freeway real quick to dry it off easier.

I knew you guys were heading down around that time but what a conincidence I would air dry my truck at the exact same time you drive by my exit on the 5... .



Joe

 

[TAlbiston]

You guy's are all being alittle hard on TDS. How many people have been to Dyno events gone bad? Just about everyone here. They said they were sorry, they gave back everyone's money who didn't Dyno. After my 3 Dyno pull's they recalulated my run's and got 598 and 603. Thats really close to what it should be. It might be 15-20 off, you'll see that going from Dyno to Dyno. Mustang, Super Flow, Dynojet, Dyno comm, you can hook up to all of these Dyno's and you will see a different #'s. So I believe this Wed. You can go back and Dyno for free.

 

[ASchwartz]

Tim,



This wednesday to redyno? What time?



Avi

 

[TAlbiston]

You know what I not sure now. I looked back at some post and I didn't see it. I was sure that I read that some where.

 

[RHARVEY]

That sucks! I wonder if the guys that runs this one runs the one in SLO...



Rick

 

[Cummnzpowr]

...

Reb. . I know you didn't drive 7 hours to the dyno... we came from Sacramento and it took us 5 hours and 15 minutes . . and your way south of us.

 

[JDerbedrossian]

I keep telling you guys if you want to get it done right you have to go to STC PERFORMANCE in Santa Fe Springs. If you don't believe me do a search and you'll see that i repeatedly said go to these guys for some real diesel dyno time. Yes i know its not close to some of you guys and gals but to get burned like that after a long drive is not right.



Sorry for the rant, Jake.

 

[Matt S]

I checked the STC Performance site out. It looks good but will that dyno handle a lot of horsepower? In the video it shows a mechanical gauge but it maxed out pretty low. That looks like a better place than the Dyno shop.

 

[Reb.B]

Greg, whats 3. 5 plus 3. 5? You got it..... unlucky number 7, woo hoo, you're the big winner!!!!! What really sucks is the drive you guys had. I think i would have done a burn out and filled their shop full of smoke if i were you, you probably drove 9-10 hrs.

 

[JDerbedrossian]

I checked the STC Performance site out. It looks good but will that dyno handle a lot of horsepower? In the video it shows a mechanical gauge but it maxed out pretty low. That looks like a better place than the Dyno shop.

They were suppose to upgrade awhile ago, havent talk with them for a couple a months, maybe a phone call will give us more info. And they have had dyno days there before so i suppose there would have been high horsepower trucks.



Jake.

 

[Cummnzpowr]

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Reb... ok if you consider EACH way yeah i guess... i mean't just to get down there it was 5. 5 for us... so yeah we left at 5am and didn't get back in town til after 10 pm... yeah it sucked