Long short story:
I have joined the student car club at the college where I teach. The faculty adviser that has been with the club for several years is a Ford advocate. He was a little dismayed and surprised that a faculty member joined the club. I have tried to help the students as much as possible while making sure that I did not get in the hair of the current adviser. I took my Volvo to one evening of repair activity, and one night we were discussing some winter activities and someone asked every one what kind of vehicles they had...I mentioned the Volvo and that I had a Dodge Truck, another Dodge owner asked "is it a Hemi?"
I said no.
One other student said it was probably an SRT 10 and everyone laughed...I said: "Yes".:burnout:
Well that started a lot of whooping and hollering...and the adviser asked what horsepower it had and I said "620" and he said at the crank? I said "no".
Well he was not impressed. So last night they had a dyno night ($10 a run to raise funds for the club, we have a Mustang Dyno).
I still felt that the adviser thought I was throwing BS all over the floor about the power of the truck. The kids learned how to strap a vehicle down, set up max cooling, and the concept of how to dyno a vehicle with my truck as the test vehicle.
Well when we ran the truck I could see the adviser physically recoil as I ran the truck out in 4th gear...then he wanted to do it one more time:rock: ...we did it again...and he was just shaking his head in disbelief...
The numbers were very low because we ran out of dyno...he had set the parameters too low and grossly underestimated the truck.
The max he could read was 500 rwhp at 4280 rpm...and the spike was going nearly vertical as it passed through the 500 hp line...since we had lots of kids that were waiting to run their vehicles we didn't run it again...but the adviser did announce to the class that a new horsepower record now existed. And while the dyno stopped reading at 500, it appeared that the SRT 10 with the Roe TMTS obviously was headed toward 650 rwhp at about 5800 rpm.:rock:
I loved it...
To be clear, my truck has dyno numbers of 620 hp and 639 tq. That was over a year ago...since then...new Roe TB, (plus 10?) different injectors (plus 8?) new VEC III cards by Sean (plus 15?) Roy a year older (minus 10?)...
So I think I am probably at 630 or so...but I will accept the advisers estimate of 650 gladly...!
We have a few more believers in SRT 10's this morning...including one auto mechanics instructor.
I have joined the student car club at the college where I teach. The faculty adviser that has been with the club for several years is a Ford advocate. He was a little dismayed and surprised that a faculty member joined the club. I have tried to help the students as much as possible while making sure that I did not get in the hair of the current adviser. I took my Volvo to one evening of repair activity, and one night we were discussing some winter activities and someone asked every one what kind of vehicles they had...I mentioned the Volvo and that I had a Dodge Truck, another Dodge owner asked "is it a Hemi?"
I said no.
One other student said it was probably an SRT 10 and everyone laughed...I said: "Yes".:burnout:
Well that started a lot of whooping and hollering...and the adviser asked what horsepower it had and I said "620" and he said at the crank? I said "no".
Well he was not impressed. So last night they had a dyno night ($10 a run to raise funds for the club, we have a Mustang Dyno).
I still felt that the adviser thought I was throwing BS all over the floor about the power of the truck. The kids learned how to strap a vehicle down, set up max cooling, and the concept of how to dyno a vehicle with my truck as the test vehicle.
Well when we ran the truck I could see the adviser physically recoil
as I ran the truck out in 4th gear...then he wanted to do it one more time:rock: ...we did it again...and he was just shaking his head in disbelief...The numbers were very low because we ran out of dyno...he had set the parameters too low and grossly underestimated the truck.
The max he could read was 500 rwhp at 4280 rpm...and the spike was going nearly vertical as it passed through the 500 hp line...since we had lots of kids that were waiting to run their vehicles we didn't run it again...but the adviser did announce to the class that a new horsepower record now existed. And while the dyno stopped reading at 500, it appeared that the SRT 10 with the Roe TMTS obviously was headed toward 650 rwhp at about 5800 rpm.:rock:
I loved it...
To be clear, my truck has dyno numbers of 620 hp and 639 tq. That was over a year ago...since then...new Roe TB, (plus 10?) different injectors (plus 8?) new VEC III cards by Sean (plus 15?) Roy a year older (minus 10?)...
So I think I am probably at 630 or so...but I will accept the advisers estimate of 650 gladly...!
We have a few more believers in SRT 10's this morning...including one auto mechanics instructor.
