Today, Marlene the wonder wagon rode the chassis dyno at Austin's Colvin Automotive (
www.colvinautomotive.com).
I wanted to do a 'before' for the 'before and after' wattage check as part of the conversion to a manual transmission. It will be interesting to see just how much energy that torque converter was soaking up when I do the 'after' runs (hopefully) later this month.
It was cool! The tech did some extra fussing with the optical tach sensor to make sure that we were able to get the data we needed to calculate torque plus, we actually did four runs to insure that we were getting a clean record.
Output was pretty typical for a 617.952: 125-127 ft/lbs of torque and 78-79 hp. Look at the graphs (
http://berryhillfarm.us/benz_stuff/Dyno/dynochart.jpg) and you can see the miniscule increase in output that was achieved by turning the ALDA screw 1/2 turn CCW.