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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 12:26 PM
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so i was at a car show here in central california at a friends shop (ssauto) and he said 20 bucks for a couple pulls so of course i took him up on that. first pull free wheels no load on the dyno and i put down 363horse power and over 400 pounds of torque. set up the computer and factored in the load and all that cute ****. and i put down 277 horse power and 342 pounds of torque to the wheels. does this sound about right for an 01 ss? all pulls were done in 4th gear and the pulls were from 2k-5500 rpms
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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 12:39 PM
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Those are prob way off your supposed to do an auto in 3rd because its the 1-1 ratio and 4th is for a m6. He sounds like he got confused I was under the impression that dyno pulls in 4th on an auto is bad juju
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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 12:47 PM
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I have an auto with stock gears and longtubes ory and intake and I only put down 341hp and 356torque
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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 12:57 PM
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who said im running an auto?
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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 02:17 PM
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I figured off the part you said (ssauto)...im on my droid so I prob didn't see if you said m6
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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 02:24 PM
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ooooooooo
my friends shop in salida
ssautopower.com (ss auto)
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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 02:29 PM
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No worrys..what are you running and what's your mods? You didn't state that so it will be hard for others to see if your stuff is in the right ball park.
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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 02:37 PM
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even stock that is a little low, should be closer to 280-300 at the wheels
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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 02:40 PM
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no mods, just the stuff slp did, and its smog legal for ca.
going to do a complete tune up here soon and take it back.
hopefully squeeze out closer 300
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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 02:41 PM
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Yeah that is true mine stock put 306hp maybe he has some dirty parts that are robbing power
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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 02:43 PM
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would the fact i have 187k on the odometer factor into this?
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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 02:45 PM
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Yeah get rid of the stock cats and use some high flows and a good quality muffler not crappy flowmaster corsa and borla sound awesome magnaflow is too quite for me I have slp lm2
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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 02:47 PM
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yeah im probably gonna get some hi-flos pretty soon. and right now i have the lm1 i believe
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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 02:50 PM
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Miles yeah maybe you loose a lil compression do to wear and tear do a good tune up plugs wires filter fuel additive and stay away from seafoam
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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 02:52 PM
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stay away from it?
my friend was trying to get me into doing seafoam.
i told him i was gonna wait to research it first

yeah i plan on a full tune up soon
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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 02:53 PM
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Might not hurt to rebuild the engine if you have time and cando it. Might increase the power and life of the block but if its not broke don't fix it I guess
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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 02:58 PM
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its just my dd, not really into numbers or racing
just going to upgrade suspension/bushings/motor mounts/tranny mount
body work and paint
and keep doing the regular tune ups and then tune it for fuel economy
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Seafoam is very acidic I don't trust it. But other may love it I just don't like how you can use it in diesl gas oil everything its to one for all for me I use lucas products
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Old Aug 8, 2011 | 03:04 PM
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Oh ok I just did a tranny mount super easy and its a whole new car lol she rides amazing lol mine was ripped in half and im bout to tackle the motor mounts soon. And the swap to m6
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