[quote=“turbo329is” post=68278]I’m against a dyno rule. It’s just another way for someone to get a surprise dq. I would prefer a little bit of ingenuity as long as it stays cheap. There is only so much power our car’s can make at .5mm overbore and our little valves and cam. That should be the limit.
A rule that is difficult or costly to enforce shouldn’t exist. Taking our cars to the dyno to make sure they are legal would cost more than a chip.[/quote]
It’s very hard to make >160hp or torque. There’s only a couple folks here that have played around with engines and engine management more than I have, and I’m here to tell you that >160 is very hard. So no one is going to make it by accident and then get surprised at the dyno.
Back when we were talking about a dyno standard, the number being thrown around was 165, but I’d be cool with 160. That would scale back the efforts of a few that are determined to get as much power as they can. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not speaking ill of them, I’ve a long record of being determined to do , then determined to do , so I can certainly relate.
I’m not saying everyone would have to get a dyno run recorded, altho we certainly could all do that at Balanced Performance at the first RA event of the year. Maybe we could just have say something more ambiguous like 160hp on a Dynojet is the max allowable hp and torque. That phrasing would regional directors a lot of freedom on how to enforce it. Mid-Atl has it easy because of the dyno at VIR. Tougher in the SE. Maybe if someone complained about a SE car, Robert and Chuck would find a way to get it to BP’s dyno not too far from RA.
Or how about this idea?.. Allow everyone to run a chip. Chip’s are cheap, I’ve had a Turner chip and a Dinian chip for sale for $75 for a year at bf.c and no one’s bought them so $$ is no big deal. Knock-offs are available on ebay for beer-money. The only chip that is a little more expensive is to get one that is customized to have the OEM red line.
We can’t stop people from chipping their DME. Anyone that thinks otherwise is wrong. I can put an illegal chip into a DME and you can’t tell. Since that’s the case, why not let everyone do it?