I know of places all over the state, but the ones with the best deals are in the twin cities. Another place got back to me today with information about dynoing. They would charge $50 for 3 pulls, but they can put a load on the dyno. Could be very useful for some of your trucks with aftermarket turbos. Here is the reply to the e-mail I sent them:
Our rate for group dyno days is $50 for 3 pulls. Each person will get
a
printout with the HP, torque and boost charted on it. We can also give
the A/F ratio on gasoline power vehicles. We can handle RWD, FWD, and
AWD/4WD vehicles. The only AWD vehicle that I know won't fit between
our rollers is a long box/crew cab version of a Silverado SS AWD.
However, we can handle very long crew cab/long box RWD vehicles,
because
they don't have to sit down in the front rollers and we have extension
ramps coming off the front.
Our max HP capability is in the 1350 range, after that the numbers
become less accurate. Max torque is in the 1800+ft-lb range, but that
depends on RPM. We have had diesel trucks on our dyno that have put
down over 1000ft-lbs. We can also put load on the truck, which is
especially useful in dynoing turbo diesels. Normal non-load chassis
dynos like the Dynojet 248 or 224, only use a heavy drum roller to find
power and not a variable load retarder or torque cell. They use math
to
find HP by how fast a car can accelerate the fixed weight drum roller.
The problem is that big turbo diesel has no problem at all moving that
drum roller and often won't even reach full boost on the dyno. I have
dyno turbo diesels on a Dynojet 248 before that would fall 10psi short
of the boost they ran on the street. With our dyno, we apply a load to
the truck and make it have to exert itself and spool the turbo.
We have our dyno in it's own room with it's own garage door seperate
from our install bays. There is a window that looks into our dyno room
from our retail showroom and a monitor that shows the same data/graphs
as what the dyno operator sees. You guys are free to setup a grill and
canopies outside, if plan on doing it when the weather is nicer.
I am still waiting to hear back from some other places, but I don't think they will be as cheap. Let me know what you guys think. Also, anybody wanna take a shot at being prez? I am more than willing to give it a try, but like I said, I have never done anything like this.
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