Heading to the dyno on Friday afternoon to do a bit of testing and tweaking on our Spec Miatas.
Even though this is an IT forum, I know a bunch (well, a few, anyway) of you guys have done this with your cars; I haven't, and am looking for some general tips/advice.
Here's the plan:
Taking my car, plus two other SMs
-- Mine is a 1.6, we'll have another 1.6 and a 1.8.
-- Taking several airflow meters to swap/test with (1.6 cars only)
-- Taking cleaned/blueprinted injectors from local shop (1.6)
-- Taking timing light to find the sweet spot for each engine (all)
-- Will have three people to swap/test/move cars
-- Planning on 2, maybe 3 hours, total
Goals:
1. Get a baseline for each car
2. Find the optimum base timing for each car
3. Match up airflow meters between the 1.6 cars
4. Determine optimum shift points based on torque/HP curves
5. Walk away with graphs and numbers to evaluate later
Anything I'm missing? Any advice? What DO I need to do to make this worthwhile?
I'm particularly interested in the "determine optimum shift points" item. I know it should be done....but haven't had a chance to get my brain around it yet....
THANKS!!
Jarrod
Even though this is an IT forum, I know a bunch (well, a few, anyway) of you guys have done this with your cars; I haven't, and am looking for some general tips/advice.
Here's the plan:
Taking my car, plus two other SMs
-- Mine is a 1.6, we'll have another 1.6 and a 1.8.
-- Taking several airflow meters to swap/test with (1.6 cars only)
-- Taking cleaned/blueprinted injectors from local shop (1.6)
-- Taking timing light to find the sweet spot for each engine (all)
-- Will have three people to swap/test/move cars
-- Planning on 2, maybe 3 hours, total
Goals:
1. Get a baseline for each car
2. Find the optimum base timing for each car
3. Match up airflow meters between the 1.6 cars
4. Determine optimum shift points based on torque/HP curves
5. Walk away with graphs and numbers to evaluate later
Anything I'm missing? Any advice? What DO I need to do to make this worthwhile?
I'm particularly interested in the "determine optimum shift points" item. I know it should be done....but haven't had a chance to get my brain around it yet....
THANKS!!
Jarrod