I'm looking for a dyno shop in Northern California, preferably close to Sacramento to help work out some tuning bugs in my car. Can anyone recomend a shop preferably equiped with a Dynapack dyno, or hydraulic loading dyno, sencondarly preferring the eddy-current type loading dyno (Mustang dyno, Dynojet, etc). Thanks for any information.

 

Try Force Fed Performance, they are geared more more towards Vettes, Vipers, and SBC's but they know tuning.

http://www.forcefedperformance.com/

 

way to read my mind, dan.


i'm going to put in my 951MAX chips, and hopefully getting my car to run half freakin decent so i can get a dyno pull in.

i've got a coolant expansion tank coming soon (to replace the leaking one) so maybe my engine temps will return to normal.

probably gonna replace the thermostat while everything's pulled apart.




i'm also looking for a good shop.


the only ones i had seen before were Motorsport Dynamics, and Midnight Performance (out by sunrise), but MSD spent too much money on their drift car and went bankrupt.

 

I tried calling Motorsport Dynamics yesturday, and they still have phone lines up, but no one answered, and no calls back. They supposedly have (or had) a Dynapack. The machine said they were at a new location (2439 Arden Way, behind dimple records), but I'm not sure how current that info is.

I'll give Force Fed a call today (their website coinsides with information I've learned elsewhere, so hopefully they know what they're doing).

 

yeah, i'm pretty sure MSD is either gone or close to gone.

that was their location as long as i'd known about it.

 

What, don't want to do some dyno runs with your jb-weld filler?

 

it's not even JB Weld!

it's like....... plastic gas tank putty.




how awful...............

 

So I talked to Force Fed. They won't touch anything thats not domestic. The guy sounded like a major pre-madonna and after talking to him, I'm not sure if I'd take my car to him if he was comfortable with it.

I'll try Dave Erlich in Diamond Springs, he doesn't have a dyno, but is a competant tuner.

 

Man, I'm sorry to hear that Dan, guess they won't be making your X-Mas card list. He sure has no problem taking money from my friend Jason and his money-pit Camaro. Hope you find what you need for that last 10% of the tuning.

 

On the phone, when I told him that I had a porsche, he told me he only worked on domestics and proceded to to list every performance domestic car made in the last 25 years with a V8 or larger. I bit my tongue as I wanted to reply, "So you only know how to tune 4 differant engines?"

Theres more deserving people for my money.

 

i would have bought you a box of krispy kremes if you'd done that


maybe when i buy my Lincoln MK VIII with the cobra motor, i'll take it to him to make the fastest 3700-lb luxo barge i can buy.

 

Ok, why does everyone around here like the mark 8's? My grandfather has one and that thing is a comlete pita to drive - I know he sucks at car matienence though, so do they not all suck for driving around in?

 

Huh?

 

The Lincoln MK VIII's. The ford thunderbirds with different sheet metal. These suckers.


It seems like at least 4 people on here have them or want them - I'm just wondering why because they seem like complete POS's from what I've seen/driven.

MK = mark. I think their new rebadge of the ford fusion will be the mark 10 (mk x).

 

I understand the question Bill, just not clear how it relates to dyno-tuning in Sacramento