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Old 11-12-2015, 09:25 AM   #50
pdoherty972
 
Drives: 2013 370Z sports
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Originally Posted by DGthe3 View Post
I am extremely weary of any early dyno results. Not because I think the cars are ringers, but because I suspect a lot of people that want to post numbers up, do it explicitly because they want to show everyone some big numbers. Doesn't matter whether its a private owner or a shop thats about to start selling products. Some might say a shop would be prone to lowballing the 'before' to make their stuff look better, which is true. But if you have a dyno that tends to read high you'll also post better gains vs a more conservative dyno.

Even in the coming months when people do a before & after, I'm still skeptical that it might be a 'happy' dyno. If you dyno your car, are you going to be more likely to post it if the number is high or if its low?
A nice way to protect against that is to have them ALSO dyno a car with known HP/torque numbers, like a gen 5 Camaro SS.
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