6th Gen ('00-'05): Happy Horse Power Man!!!
#11
Yeah, it's clear that the dyno was miscalibrated or something. I had one of the highest dynoed NA 3800s and I put down 222whp:http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GUiTG0YT4i8
Most stock 3800s put down 150-160whp.
Most stock 3800s put down 150-160whp.
#12
I have a friend that ownes DBR here in spring hill tn. Just for the fun of it, we put my ss on the dyno just to see what it was doing. It is totally stock except for K&N intake, and it marked at 235. This is the non supercharged 3800, so I do not think I can complaine to much. Now for some hotter plugs and wires, and slight exaust work, and I should be over 250
Just to give you an idea, 235 whp on an NA 3800 would take heads and a cam at least, heck the stock supercharged 3800s are barely hitting 200.
Some things to ask your friend to see what went wrong:
-See if it is a raw number, or an adjusted number. Some dynos can add a correction factor for temp, humidity, etc and it's possible that they just fat fingered one of the data points so that it artificially skews the data too high.
-You could also see if he was doing a conversion to calculate crank hp. Some shops do this for people who aren't familiar with whp numbers but are used to seeing the crank numbers advertised by manufacturers so they can do an apples to apples comparison. Perhaps they just miscalculated the conversion?
It would be nice if you could get some usable data out of it so you weren't beating on the car for nothing.
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