Pretty much my thought process as well, I'm only going to dyno so it will give others the information they want. Now when I get to a dyno will be a different story.

 

So it's kind of like getting a ***** extension without really knowing if it extends things. You think it's bigger, but you don't care, because it feels bigger. And now you can tell everyone that you have a bigger *****. So when people ask how big, you'll say what?

 

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And what assumptions about your driving style should one make after the above comments ??

 

Future 308 Ferrari owner....

 

Funny stuff, actually most people don't talk about HP #'s because most people know its about like asking someone how big the fish was. You get a straight answer almost never. Most just want to feel the seat kickback or see the wheels spin and ask how fast will it go. Don't know of anyone yet who's ever scored after showing a girl their dyno sheet, but of course I can't say I ever met anyone who's ever tried either. lol. Seriously though, If I was going to put a guesstimate on it I would say the sharktuning and boost gave the car about 35% more power. So if I started with say 325 rwhp considering the exhaust mods and weighing the factor that it is an old engine. Without being exact I think I might be anywhere from 410 to 440 rwhp which is pretty nice to get from point A to point B. I think it is great simple bolt on street performance for under $5K.

 

Since we're just guessing here, I'm gonna say you'd be better off erring on the low side. I'm fairly certain your car was nowhere near 325RWHP prior to the supercharger. So, let's say 300 and call what you're feeling around 385RWHP.

 

 

Much of the grin factor is probably the higher low RPM torque much like a big block old muscle car where you could smoke the tires ( the narrow low traction of the period) pretty much any where in the lower gears no need to use RPM and downshifting. Same with having 4:30 rear gears in the 428 super cobrajet the pull in first gear while brief was awesome !

 

Im not noticing a HUGE gain in low RPM "go" power, but over 4k, its an entirely different car.

There IS more..my up the mountain drive 2x a day, no longer feels as labored in 4th gear, and certainly a lot more energetic in 3rd...but its the upper half of the range that rains down sunshine now.

Easily 640 Canadian Horsepower.

 

This is the best measure of horsepower that I know of!

 

Probably the assumption that when a lady in a mini van floors it, I can touch the accelator slightly, have the tach travel from 2200 rpm all the way up to a whopping 3400 rpms, and still stay with traffic. If I floor it to get a thrill it is sparingly and well away from traffic.

 

A lot of people have documented with exhaust mods and a few other small mods to get about a 35hp increase. So if my car started with 280 when I got it with only 109,000 on it. Then I did a lot of refreshing to maybe bring it back to 290 or 300. Add in the mods which might add as much as 35HP. I think 325rwhp is a very reasonable estimation on what I started with. Maybe its wrong but I don't think it's being completely unrealistic. Unless Porsche's factory #'s are off that much.

 

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Yet you felt the need to add more **** to it.