Dyno - Mite

Engine Dyno's are apparently a difficult thing to find these days. There are alot of dyno shops for when your engine is already in the car - but not many for freestanding engine. As luck would have it, the only shop I could find in the entire state of WA is 1/2 mile from my house.

Larry & Bob are retired 60's hotrodders that still dabble a bit since they have a full shop. We finally hooked up schedules and got the engine mounted and wired to fire it up and break in the cam. Here is a sound bite.

I didn't know at the time - but the first two starts they are merely priming the system. Then the room fan kicks on and they fire it up for real the first time. At the end of the sound bite - the engine ran for 30 minutes at 1750 RPM to break in the cam. It felt pretty damn good to hear it run, it was a deep sound that resonated in your chest. Way cool!

Then we replaced the oil and filter and started the dyno pulls and tuning portion of the program. At this time, it is producing 280ft/lbs of torque. I have no idea what that means, but Larry & Bob are not happy. Apparently there should be about 50 more ft/lbs in there somewhere. So we will be changing the jets and such on the carb. For those that care - the cranking pressure on the cylinder is 165lbs which is pretty close to normal for a stock 351W.

We will regroup on Tuesday evening to keep playing, and I will of course provide the final output of the test.