Redneck dyno

Yee haaaaa!

 

Where are the dyno electronics hooked up at? You know you're a redneck when you call your mouse a 'critter'...

 

I am surprised they didn't rig it with few horses to measure the output and hence get away from using the electronics...

The difference between a Cowboy and a Redneck... they both raise cattle but the Redneck gets emotionally involved! HeeeeHaaaaa!

Edit: Great post by the way.

 

That looks pretty safe!

 

WTF? WHY WOULD ANYONE DO THAT!?

 

cant imagine it would be very accurate...

 

IT looks like they've got a strain gauge on the block the chains connect to. That gives them the force the car is pulling with. Then they use the brakes on the truck axle to apply the load. I guess what they do is manually record the rpm and the load that went with it, Measure the radius of the wheel, then torque= force X radius and hp= torque x rpm/5252, it should work. what concerns me the most is the very high probablility of the car taking a 10 foot drop because they didn't bother to build a platform of any kind, very stupid.

 

What's up with the source page? It has nothing to do witht eh pics at all.
http://www.josephthompson.net

 

Real estate broker by day, dyno meister on the weekends?

 

Secret shame.

 

The license plate is Utah...do they have rednecks in Utah!! Inquiring minds want to know.

 

This is truly inspiring! I wonder if the guy is planning on building any other test equipment. I'm envisioning a wind tunnel.

Art S.

 

What’s he gunna use to make the wind? Beans?

 

Lets try it in reverse next

 

You make me laugh so hard! Do you really think someone who builds something like this can do even simple math? "Dude my 'maro has 540 horsepower according to my dyno and runs 9s in the quarter mile!" THIS GUY HAS TO HAVE A MULLET! ROFLMAO

 

Maranelloman,

Where did you see this at? I posted the link on another forum I frequent, and someone there wants to know where it originally came from.

 

Hahahahahaha!!! Thats awesome!!! You gotta give props where its earned, that is creative.

 

Thanks.

By the way, I was looking for some more info and found this post.

http://www.thirdgen.org/techbb2/showthread.php?s=&threadid=249330

It looks like it is by the guy who built it.

 

Here is his dyno graph from that website:
torque curve could be flatter

 

All laughing aside ... and that is hard to do, it has some sort of possibility of working, but from what I have read on the site link only a slim possibility

What concerns me the most is I feel this guys application to join the Darwin Awards club is in the mail and being processed ... this is one bloody dangerous thing he is playing with.

The idea of having somebody else at the back controlling the truck axle brakes is definitely bonus points for the Darwin Award ... take somebody out with you

Fascinating ... I'll stick to my seat of the pants dyno

Pete