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Horse power test

  • 10-08-2006 9:14am
    #1
    mustang68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭


    Anyone know where to get a HP test done in Dublin, and how much.

    Maybe I'll be dissapointed


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  • #2
    MercMad
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,266 ✭✭✭MercMad


    Westward engineering in ??????????Prosperous I think, somwhere like that, maybe Enfield !

    Anyway Martin Treacy is your man...........dont have the number to hand !


  • #3
    mmenarry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭mmenarry


    Westawrd Engineering, Enfield. Drive through the town (from the Dublin direction, take the last right before the roundabout (past a petrol station on yer left), take a right into a wee industrial estate. Can't miss it.

    We had a '68 fastback along with us at one of our dyno days there:
    fm1.jpg

    He was a little disappointed at 150 horses, a little investigation work by Martin found that he was only running on half an engine - the rotor arm was missing half the points. Still sounded sweet though!

    M.


  • #4
    dubtom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,084 ✭✭✭dubtom


    Are those dyno tests dangerous to an old V8 that rarely goes over 70. I mean any chance of one blowing ala the nct warning when the rev the jasus out of a car.


  • #5
    mustang68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭mustang68


    dubtom wrote:
    Are those dyno tests dangerous to an old V8 that rarely goes over 70. I mean any chance of one blowing ala the nct warning when the rev the jasus out of a car.

    You've just given yourself away!! The NCT warning is for diesel only (as far as I remember!)


  • #6
    mustang68
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,119 ✭✭✭mustang68


    mmenarry wrote:
    Westawrd Engineering, Enfield. Drive through the town (from the Dublin direction, tak.....

    How much did you pay?


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  • #7
    mmenarry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 155 ✭✭mmenarry


    It's normaly €60 for a "power run", less if there's a gang of ye (10 or more).

    That proce is from a year or two ago though. Not soemthing you'd be doing on a regular basis just for the fun of it, but good to check if you tune your engine, or need to check emissions, etc.

    Last time I was there I was checking the performance and the emissions (same run) so was well worth the money.

    Can also be a laugh to see disappointed "boy racers" coming out with the cold bare facts that their "performance" mods haven't given then a gazillion horsepower :p

    M.


  • #8
    Eric318
    Closed Accounts Posts: 446 ✭✭Eric318


    Din BHP are quite different from SAE ones. This is why the XK Jaguar engine appeared to have "lost" about 60 BHP between the XJ SI and the XJ SII back in the 70s... Measurements of the engine on a bench are VERY different from measaurement of whaqt actually get at the wheel... :)


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