pocketdyno'd my a3

[deeman88]

So after missing out the AMD dyno meet yesterday... I was in a dyno mood and downloaded two iPhone apps Dynolicious and PocketDyno+. I liked the GUI on the Dynolicious app a lot and after a few minutes fiddling around I asked for my friends keys to enter his private piece of road. Done a few tests and went for a testdrive.

Got these outstanding results!!

Amazing init...483bhp lol. Personally I think this app give me 310horses!!! I like

 

[Customboy]

haha nice one!! who needs a k04 or big turbos any more !!

 

[deeman88]

Lol. Yea who needs all that big power hardware when your software can do it for you but its a good piece of kit.

 

[TDIQ]

I've tried Dynolicious and Rev. Even when you set up the software properly (as far as I could tell) it really didn't provide anything like the graph that was provided from the dyno when my car was run.

Disappointing but it's never gonna be as good as a real dyno I guess.

 

[<tuffty/>]

The GPS reciever on a mobile isn't fast enough to be fantastically accurate sadly... what you need is a v-box... here is one I prepared earlier..

<tuffty/>

 

[deeman88]

One you prepared earlier yeah.? It gave me a rough idea of times etc, but I really wanted.to know how much power I'm running at the moment.

 

[James TQ]

might download the app, get the old pushbike out the shed find a huge hill and see how many horses i produce

 

[<tuffty/>]

One you prepared earlier yeah.? It gave me a rough idea of times etc, but I really wanted.to know how much power I'm running at the moment.

Then you need to get your car on a dyno... only way to get an idea of your power... subject to dyno lottery of course

<tuffty/>

 

[deeman88]

might download the app, get the old pushbike out the shed find a huge hill and see how many horses i produce

That will be a good one lol. Might try that on Wednesday or so for a laugh!!

 

[deeman88]

Then you need to get your car on a dyno... only way to get an idea of your power... subject to dyno lottery of course

<tuffty/>

I'll definitely do that on a Wednesday or Saturday- might be on to a thunderball win . Yeah I heard about different dynos giving different readings, but they can't be that much out... I guess

 

[superkarl]

I'll definitely do that on a Wednesday or Saturday- might be on to a thunderball win . Yeah I heard about different dynos giving different readings, but they can't be that much out... I guess

define 'that much out'. +/-30hp in some cases

 

[deeman88]

I had never seen figures that crazily out by the way. No one has put figures with their opinions in the threads I seen. But woow. Id go to the "higher" readout dyno any day... no matter the distance

 

[superkarl]

I had never seen figures that crazily out by the way. No one has put figures with their opinions in the threads I seen. But woow. Id go to the "higher" readout dyno any day... no matter the distance

lol, why, when it probably isnt producing the claimed power.
best to go to dynos where standard cars make standard power, and where maps and mods make realistic gains.
saves you looking like a penis claiming to have a 300hp s3 like you see in these ads on piston heads.

 

[deeman88]

"Higher" was the wrong word those, apologies. But I'd go to the accurate reading dyno when my time comes. But its a thing of me looking to just know the figures no showing off intended.

 

[superkarl]

what ever dyno you go to, its good to go to that same dyno whenever changes are made, then you know and can measure gains, as opposed to inaccurate peak figures.
dynoing 235 standard then 275 mapped is good to know the gains, even if you know you'd get lower on a 'realistic' dyno

 

[deeman88]

Hmmm... makes sense. I guess common sense would say that too. Guess you learn everyday! Anymore dyno days count me in...

 

[Prawn]

haha., I absolutely love people with crazy dyno claims, especially when their '300bhp' car gets thrashed by one with just 240 or so and similar weight.

I've always thought it's better to say you have LESS horsepower, because then it makes you look all the more cool when you're ultra fast

Imagine for example, you lap a race track in 2 minutes dead. and you have 300bhp.

If another person lapped the same race track in 2 minutes, with just 100bhp, I know which is the most impressive!

If you want a rough idea of your current output, just do some MAF logs Deeman!

 

[actualeddie]

What makes the.difference? Mechanics in the dyno, software, conditions they simulate? All of the above. Maybe companies faking high gains

 

[<tuffty/>]

What makes the.difference? Mechanics in the dyno, software, conditions they simulate? All of the above. Maybe companies faking high gains

Calibration, loaded runs vs inertia runs, calculated coast down losses vs actual measured losses... they all seem to do stuff differently... inertia give typically high figures on spiky turbos like K03/K04 which in turn gives unrealistic torque figures and subsequently over inflated hp figures as hp is calculated from torque..

For what its worth, Prawn has run his car on both R-Tech and Badger5's dynos and been within a couple of hp of each other...

<tuffty/>

 

[deeman88]

haha., I absolutely love people with crazy dyno claims, especially when their '300bhp' car gets thrashed by one with just 240 or so and similar weight.

I've always thought it's better to say you have LESS horsepower, because then it makes you look all the more cool when you're ultra fast

Imagine for example, you lap a race track in 2 minutes dead. and you have 300bhp.

If another person lapped the same race track in 2 minutes, with just 100bhp, I know which is the most impressive!

If you want a rough idea of your current output, just do some MAF logs Deeman!

Yea it makes sense to do that I guess. But then it focuses on the driver and how good they are etc. I need to familiarise myself with my vcds. To me its still a foreign language lol. I tried reading up on it and stuff but it was all Greek!