[DFW] Anyone interested in a dyno day?

As I mentioned in this thread :http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=9768 I took my car to a local tuner here in Lewisville for a run on his Dynojet. It's not a fancy place, but they are serious car enthusiasts.

Would anyone else be interested in getting together on a Saturday in April or May to make some dyno runs? The owner of the shop is more than willing to open up for an exotic group. The costs should be reasonable -- he charged me $45 with air/fuel when he opened specially for me; an open dyno day the previous week was $40 for 3 runs with the fuel/air.

Matt, do you think the Pantera group would be interested?

Thoughts, anyone?

 

I don't know of any, except maybe for the one listed above. This facility only has the 2 wheel dynojet.

Spoken like a lawyer As with anything else interesting in life, there's risk. You're running the car to its redline. It could blow up. The straps might fail and launch the car off the rack. A tire could shred and kill everyone within a 3 mile radius....

Realistically, the main danger is that there's already something weakening in the car, and that the runs on the dyno will cause that weakening to become visible. If the car has safe tires, enough oil and cooling, it should be fine. There were 4 huge straps on the lower A-arms on my car (the only place to tie it down) and a big wheel chock bolted in. That car didn't move at all. The owner of the place ran it on the dyno, and he handled it with kid gloves.

 

I looked at the calendar. Given that we definitely want Brian's car there, as well as the Pantera folk, and we don't want to run into the Poker Run, how's early June sound? Shouldn't be too hot by then. If that's OK, then I'll bug the owner and see what he says.

 

Pictures! We want pictures!

(I dig the Panteras!)