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Old Oct 28, 2006 | 09:41 PM
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what are dynos?? and dyno tunes? and what do they do?

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Old Oct 28, 2006 | 09:49 PM
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Wikipedia is your friend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamometer
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Old Oct 28, 2006 | 09:51 PM
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Dynos measure torque and horesepwerjafew. HORSEPOWER!
horse is a funny word.

What is a dyno tune? A tune up designed a dyno?

Dyno's are useless except to measure the addition of a mod because of temp diffs and what not. SAE corrected is eh...

1/4mi timeslips rock.
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Old Oct 28, 2006 | 09:58 PM
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thx for answering!
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Old Oct 29, 2006 | 02:11 PM
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its a little hard to tune an engine (air/fuel, timing, etc...) while goin down the quarter mile

thats the real benefit of dynos, they allow you to mess with engine parameters while everythings moving as it would be on the road.
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