OcUK Rolling Road Day 16 @ PowerStation (Tewksbury) - Saturday November 16th 2013

Well the car's been serviced, and it's ready to be thrashed on the rollers! I hope I get stock or around stock figures - gives me something to aim for for next time.

I won't be able to stick around too long - but will stay for a bit of a chat and catch up. :)

Thanks for letting me run first Gibbo (obviously warming up the rollers for everyone else ;)).
 
ive been there before, not in this car though, the leon was on a dyno today. i know every operator says theres are right and all others over/under read, just wondering what the thoughts on powerstation were?
 
adeyspec said:
ive been there before, not in this car though, the leon was on a dyno today. i know every operator says theres are right and all others over/under read, just wondering what the thoughts on powerstation were?
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Wheel figures a load of garbish, but wheel power has never interested me, I want to know what my engine is doing.

Flywheel figures tend to be very accurate, the mahaa dyno has a reputation for being one of the most accurate dynos for measuring engine power with the engine still in the car and it's wheels still on. :)

My Jag made slightly under stock power, about 10BHP under but the 100k+ miles it probably lost a few horses or just Ford engines not making claims.

Porsche ran about 358BHP when stock, should be 355 stock and now makes 375ish on their dyno with mods.

So pretty accurate generally and BMWs never make their claimed figure supposedly a trait BMW and Audi are known for as they never make their claimed figures.


Have we ever had an E46 M3 run on one of our dyno days at Powerstation, be good to see the graph? :)
 
ScoobyDoo69 said:
Thanks JP :cool:



Shhhhh - you never know!



I think so.. don't think any have ever made their quoted power though?
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I am not sure if official power figure is 338BHP or 343BHP, either way the BMW forums suggest they do not make claimed power and are typically in the 320-330 region.

The CSL was the only ones which made claimed power or more varying between 355-370 horsepower, but at the same time were very hard to extract more from.

Supposedly the regular M3 responds well to mods and Saturday we shall see as I remapped mine today. :D
 
I think they are misquoted at 343bhp, when they were actually 343ps, hence 338bhp in real money. Even so, I think many struggle to make this and make more like 320-330 as you say, where as CSL hit the numbers.
 
TomO said:
I think they are misquoted at 343bhp, when they were actually 343ps, hence 338bhp in real money. Even so, I think many struggle to make this and make more like 320-330 as you say, where as CSL hit the numbers.
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What I have heard though and it could just being a one off particular good one, but rumour and I repeat rumour is the 05/55 onwards models shared the CSL headers and these made the claimed power figures.

However when asking about how the CSL / Regular headers differ it just seems to be they use thinner metal and weigh less, they don't seem to have any design/flow changes and look identical in images. Hence maybe just a rumour and BMW did something else to ensure newer cars hit claimed power or its just a rumour again and none of them actually hit claimed figures.

Shall see on Saturday, as I shall run with the map on and the map off, the car has the best chance to make power, all new filters, oil, inspection 2 done, decent flowing exhaust, lets see. :)
 
Hi there

Running order so far:-
Running Order:-

1. Pomroy - EVO X FQ-360 (Powerstation fitting exhaust afterwards)
2. Freefaller - 350z
3. Gibbo - M3 with remap
4. Will - MX5 with mods
5. RJK - MX5
6. Nursie - MX5
7. Howard - Mondeo ST220
8. IanH - Mondeo Diesel
9. Mr. May - Astra Van
10. Arcaded - MR2 Turbo
11. Adeyspec - R5 GT Turbo
12. Jakeycrx - DC2 Teg
13. Tutes friend - Fabia VRS
14. AS_Platinum - Mazda 3 2.0l
15. allllec - Toyota Soarer
16. jamespa28 - E36 M3
17. Scoobydoo69 - Subaru STi gunning for 400BHP!
18. Milano Chris - EVO
19. Gibbo - M3 without remap
20. Pomroy - EVO X FQ-360 with exhaust
21. AM - FN2 CTR with many mods!
22. Bicepo - GT4 with many mods!
23. Spare
24. Spare
25. Spare
26. Spare
27. Spare
28. Spare
29. Spare
30. Spare
 
Sorry guys looks like i'm going to have to pull out this one :(

Long story short - my poor Evo track car has cracked and corroded rear chassis legs which has just showed up on its MOT so bottom line is I need to re-shell it sooner rather than later and I've been tipped off about a nice Evo 6 rolling shell and the guy selling it is only about Sat morning for me to view it on a ramp so I have to do that over the RR day unfortunately :( Gutted about the car is bit of an understatement :(

And I was so looking forward to seeing what my Golf oil burner was going to put out lol
 
I'm going to have to pull out as well guys, my house purchase has suddenly picked up pace and looks like we're going to complete ASAP.

Aka, I'm skint.
 
dont worry it looks like i might be able to fill all them spaces if its ok with you guys? a fair few mates have said they want to come along. ive just said tag on the end if you turn up. that ok with you lot?
 
adeyspec said:
dont worry it looks like i might be able to fill all them spaces if its ok with you guys? a fair few mates have said they want to come along. ive just said tag on the end if you turn up. that ok with you lot?
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More the merrier m8. :)

Hopefully one of them has a stock E46 M3 to compare too :D
 
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