Jimmy Cooper was contacted today by Bombardier, explaining that wrong
ECU’s had been shipped to DynoTech. No one called me. I will guess that
last year they fooled me with the same dragrace ECU. Look at the
numbers on DTR last year’s Shootout. That one had way too much HP,
compared with the first stocker I dyno’d a few weeks earlier. But I
admit I was harried, pressed for time to blow four Shootout sleds
actross the dyno in a day. No time for fuel flow / airflow meters to be
connected. HP is king. Last year’s Shootout Mach Z was much higher HP
than the first 170 HP broken in bone stocker i tested a few weeks
earlier. I know the guy who bought that sled after the Shootout–the
tabs on the ECU wire harness connectors are all chewed up indicating
someone had exchanged ECUs.
I’m surmising, my opinion only, that since we let last year’s hotrod
Shootout MachZ slide, they could do it again. Instead of planting
hotrod ECU’s maybe in all of Old Forge Powersports’ Mach Z’s perhaps
sending hotrod “non breakin mode” ECU’s to DynoTech would fool us
again. But this year Tim Erikson and Dave Wells dropped off a few
random sleds every day for a week. Now I had time to really examine
what we had. With fuel flow meters connected (a royal pain with some of
these EFI sleds but surely necessary to assess what we’ve been provided
with) I could easily discern that this was abnormal. Too much HP, too
little fuel. I spent an extra five hours on the dyno correcting the
too-hot MachZ and 600SDI. A full dynotech report will be posted here as
sooon as SnowWeek publishes their Shootout issue.
Erich “Bikeman” Long will be at my this dyno thurs AM live on dynocams, obtaining SnowWeek HP data prior to Shootout.
I will review my aftermarket trailmod list tomorrow, will post who is
bringing what. But plan on last year’s pump gas trail mod record ET MPH
to fall.