We went down Power Engineering today to see their new dyno in action and to get a few power runs

My mate Neil’s car











It made 545bhp with an exhaust blow, should have been more but Iain thought it felt short of ignition timing.

My mate Cliff’s car









Cliff’s car was suffering some detonation so Iain aborted the run

Mine













The figures for mine? I was expecting around 260bhp and 310lb/ft





Ignore the boost figure, unless the gauge is massively wrong in the car it was 1.2 bar



Well chuffed with those results and love the fact that you can get low cars on and off the dyno without issue because it is sunk into the ground.

Thanks Iain for the power runs

 

what did you think of the place/set-up?
i need to get my car on the rollers for a checkup
would you recomend them?

and cars look lovely by the way.

 

It looks like a really good setup there and I'll be taking my cossie back for a setup and check over in the near future. Iain spent a lot of time on the cars today and was very thorough with them good to see them up and running again.

 

what you done to the focus???

 

Not much dreamscience, panel filter & ecu spacer and decat engine wise.

 

Looks a very nice set up they have now

Steve

 

Good ole Eyeball! (aka: Ian Ball) Top bloke!

I used to work at Power Engineering on saturdays with Ian and Chris Todd in the dyno bay. Was a great laugh
Ian will ALWAYS give you an honest no BS assesment/opinion on anything. Very very capable and a much underated guy in my opinion.

I'd trust him with my car without a doubt.

 

Doesnt Matt (Guzzler) run or own this place now?

That Skybus looks really nice, did SJS do the graphics ?

Mike

 

Looks like its in a different unit than where they were before ?

 

Matt works for Turbo Techniques.

Cosworv: Yeah they gave up the other dyno bay and are utilising the space in the yard with a new dyno building

 

I thought he had taken the lease of the old PE building?

Mike

 

Dont know about that mate, Matt did have a hand in things for a while, last I saw of the old building it was empty and up for rent.

 

Mike, we did for a while, run as a seperate company, we shared the building with 2 other people & split the costs, one of them went which put the costs up, then the other one decided to leave a few months after, that left it a big outlay for me & Iain (the tuner) to cover every month, i had since moved to Northamptonshire & the drive was a bit of a pain,, in the end we decided to look at moving the tuning side over to the workshop, Ecutek (next door to the PE dyno) took over the tuning building & bought the old dyno, that was last year, P.E. is now run as one company again headed by Richard who started the place some 23 years ago!

 

Lex at aceimageuk designed & made the graphics for us and I think he did a cracking job

 

some of the 'wrapped' cars do look very good

 

ive got my 5 booked in at power engineering on this thursday.
cant wait.

 

just looked at the pics of your car, Eyeball will love tuning that, he has a thing for things that are different
what time are you booked in for? i may be down there on Thursday.

 

booked in for 11am
when he took the booking he just laughed and said "renault 5 cosworth, that will confuse him" lol

there shouldnt really need any tuning, just a check up
tps needs setting up, fuel and boost just need checking and maybe a tweek, thats all i think.

i had an operation yesterday so hopefully im up to it, but so far so good. lol

 

Was the first skyline about lakeside on the 13th of this month at all?