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Chassis dyno cannot be skipped?

Posted By: Scott440

Chassis dyno cannot be skipped? - 09/23/18 06:19 AM

Planning a dyno session to make an EFI profile good for e85 and a separate profile for race gas. Initially I was going to try to dial it in with the engine out of the car (it's already out). Later, someone told me, don't bother, final dyno work has to be done with the engine in the car anyway. Does the drivetrain really influence optimal fuel/ignition? If so, then the only reason to do it outside the car is to have one session with higher hp numbers, but it's not a final tune.
Posted By: sgcuda

Re: Chassis dyno cannot be skipped? - 09/23/18 04:07 PM

Except for underhood temps raising operating temps of engine, I don't think it should matter. I feel that if you are going to be thrashing the engine between two different fuel supplies, why beat up on the whole car? I's rather just put it on an engine dyno.
Posted By: AndyF

Re: Chassis dyno cannot be skipped? - 09/23/18 04:52 PM

For a street car the chassis dyno is probably a better way to tune. For a race car an engine dyno works well.
Posted By: HDNMOPERS

Re: Chassis dyno cannot be skipped? - 09/24/18 02:51 AM

If it's a new build. And your already on the engine dyno. With the EFI installed. You might as well get good base tune. If you install EFI on engine already in the car. Do yourself a favor and chassis dyno tune it. Yeah you can drive it in self tune/learn. But your gonna play haiti hitting all your upper KPA load cells. That's why you will hear "Yeah the more I drove it the better it got". But it will take some miles to do it. On the street or HWY with it in self tune/learn. If you got any kinda of power. Hitting a 80-90 KPA @5500 RPM. I promise you will be north of 100 mph. Not a real safe thing to be doing. So if you can. Get it dynoed. Chassis or Engine dyno. It is better.
Posted By: jwb123

Re: Chassis dyno cannot be skipped? - 09/24/18 05:29 PM

not messed with E85 tuning too much, but unless you are buying your fuel from a race fuel supplier, at the gas station the e85 content will be all over the place. Plus when you switch do you have a easy way to drain the tank completely? Most of the guys I helped had a sensor like this which identifies the ethanol content, and a good ECM should be able to be set up to automatically adjust for fuel content, no need to do two different fuel maps.

http://www.maxxtuning.eu/products/engine...ethanol-content


http://www.ecmtuning.com/wiki/ethanolsupport
Posted By: 451Mopar

Re: Chassis dyno cannot be skipped? - 09/24/18 05:50 PM

Originally Posted By jwb123
not messed with E85 tuning too much, but unless you are buying your fuel from a race fuel supplier, at the gas station the e85 content will be all over the place. Plus when you switch do you have a easy way to drain the tank completely? Most of the guys I helped had a sensor like this which identifies the ethanol content, and a good ECM should be able to be set up to automatically adjust for fuel content, no need to do two different fuel maps.

http://www.maxxtuning.eu/products/engine...ethanol-content


http://www.ecmtuning.com/wiki/ethanolsupport



Flex-Fuel sensor, but I think only a few of the high end ECUs support the use? I plan to add the flex-fuel sensor to my Coronet with the FAST XFI 2.0, but haven't done it you, so not sure how it will work once installed. I'm using the GM sensor as pictured in the second link.
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