I know many here are skeptical of dynos but thought I would post this for those who may be curious. This is a 96 3.6 with UMW K16-24's, Proto I/C, 5 bar fuel regulator, 100 cell Tech-Art cats and 'RSR'mufflers.

Sorry about poor quality cell phone pics.

 

Is your car 2WD? If it wasn't, it is now. If you put AWD on a regular dyno, your viscous coupler is dead in about a minute. Anyway, the numbers look very healthy.

 

Yeah, the V/C was burned up from before when Addison had the car. I think they fried it on the Mustang dyno in L.A.. Currently the front axles are sitting in a box in my garage until I get it fixed this spring.

 

They TOLD us it was a linked dyno.
What we did not realize was it was linked through our VCs......
Frank's lasted exactly one pull that day.

 

it is so easy to disconnect the AWD, literally takes 3 minutes. Recommend it even when putting on awd dyno no matter what kind.

 

I wasn't able to see any quick easy way of doing this. How are you able to disconnect so quickly?

 

I did my car 2WD... The numbers look ok, I figured it would be higher though.

 

where did you do the dyno work?

 

disconnect the splined driveshaft coupler from between the torque tube and transaxle shafts. You will find this under the rubber covered access port that was made visible when from removing the rubber bellows. Inside you will see a black coupler. Rotate and REMOVE the 6mm allen bolts. Once the allen bolts are removed, you should be able to slide the coupler forward. You should slide it car enough so that you can see the drive axle coming from the transaxle is completely separated. Easy to see all of this when the undertray is removed.

 

Can you drive the car this way?

 

Yes, can you. I am very hesitant to put my car on a AWD dyno. If it is this easy, can I drive the car to the dyno this way?

Thanks

 

Sure, but it does not have any of the benefits of actually removing the driveshaft and axels

 

Gandalf, I'm curious, were you able to observe the turbos during the pull?

 

There is a guy that lives north of us near Warroad. He has the shop there and does tuning. (domestic cars mostly)

 

Yes, I noticed a soft red glow on the pipes near the turbo's. They do get awfully hot. I know when I had my old 930 during a race at night people told me the road would glow red as if I had neon underbody lights!