bigleem 0 Posted October 21, 2006 Report Share Posted October 21, 2006 i've been to a rolling road today at awesome gti in manchester, i've got a mk2 with a 2.9 vr magnex exhaust and k&n induction kit. just had a top end rebuild and it made 185.19bhp @ wheels and 184.72 torque @ wheels. @ the fly wheel it was 196.73bhp. not bad i thuoght? what do you lot think?????????? *-) Link to post Share on other sites
VR6Will 0 Posted October 22, 2006 Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 i think you'll have more than 11bhp transmission loss,what engine is it? 2.8 obd1/obd2 or 2.9 obd1? Link to post Share on other sites
bigleem 0 Posted October 22, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2006 it's a 2.9 late one with coil pack. i thought that it would have lost more but thats what it showed on the computer and print out graphs?????? Link to post Share on other sites
vr6newcomer 1 Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 from my understanding of it, u lose 18% power, different roads will give slightly different readings, but u will more that likely be losing a lot more than that. Link to post Share on other sites
bigleem 0 Posted February 18, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 Too be fair it gave a subaru a run for it's money and the 40 year old driving it wasn't happy HA HA!!!!!! Link to post Share on other sites
Eat this 2 Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 185@ the wheels is a dam good figure mate fwd tranny loss is roughly 18% buut it doeas varythe tranny loss figure the rr gave you is straight out wrong 5% is crap mate lol18% gives 218 bhp Link to post Share on other sites
apd 0 Posted February 18, 2007 Report Share Posted February 18, 2007 been on awesomes 'state of the art rollers' myself.cars a obd1 2.9sc thats made 300-317bhp at stealth in the last few years.but awesome of the four runs;399,375,287,378bhp fly figures the reading were spiking????WTF???met john aka eat this there-you tell em fella! Link to post Share on other sites
bigleem 0 Posted February 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 Now i feel cheated :-( I'd just had a top end rebuild about two week befor it went on the rollers? If that makes a diff?????????????? *-) It feels quite quick so i'm happy, it spiked at around about 202bhp which you take no notice of anyway.Who Knows????????? Link to post Share on other sites
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