[dereklburt]

I can't figure out how to attach the final dyno plot that Matt sent me. When I tried to save it as a file, it was really small. The one that was posted on the list under tuning for turbo power was close but the final was 354.8whp and 278ftlbs of torque.

I have not run it through the quarter mile yet but I hope to in a few weeks. I was all set to take it to the strip but the day I could go, they were not open. They have test and tune on Wednesday's but not the one I was able to make. Now that I am reminded of this, I may even try to do it this Wednesday if I can make it work.

I did get the opportunity to race a built up LS1 Trans Am about a week ago. I was talking to him about my turbo set up and the guy then mentioned that he would like to pull up along me someday as he had his Trans Am built. He reported that he was putting out 430whp with a built LS1 and the last time he took it to the strip, he ran a 12.4 at 115mph. Long story short, when I left, he was right behind me. When we pulled onto the highway, he pulled up next to me.

I was at a bad rpm range as we were at about 70mph and my car runs to about 80mph in 2nd. It was really too fast to put in 2nd, so I left it in 3rd. When he jumped on it, he pulled me by a full car length at least as I was not in my power band at all. As soon as my turbo started kicking in, I pulled him like he was standing still. Due to traffic, we both let off but I had started to literally blow by him as if I was in a Mustang GT racing an Escort automatic (best analogy I could think of). He was in amazement at how fast I was going when I started to blow by him. We talked for a minute after that and he figured that mine was easily a 11 second car. I guess it just depends on how it will hook up off the line. I guess I can hypothesize all I want but I won't know until I can get it there. I think traction and a good launch will be my major limiting factors.