Pacific
Northwest 928 Dyno Day
The Lineup
In
Order of Appearance My apologies if I missed getting a picture of anyone's car. It was difficult at times to get good shots in the garage even with the flash; some just aren't very good photos. Enjoy. - Curt |
Adam's Black
'88 S4 A/T. A very good looking car. Okay, they all were. |
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Tom's Black '87
S4 A/T. Adam's & Tom's cars were difficult to
distinguish by major features, even down to the placement
of the model insignia. |
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Rob's Prussian
Blue '85 S A/T, yet another wonderful color. The plates
read HIVLCTY. |
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This is my
grandprixweiss '87 S4 A/T. In the excitement I forgot to
wrangle someone into taking a video of my own car. I'll
have to settle for a daily roar in the tunnel on my
morning commute. Numbers at the
rear wheel? 243 hp, 246 ft/lbs torque. That reading of
256 hp turned out to be a glitch, to the right of
cut-off. |
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Mark's '88 S4
5-speed with some nice 993 take-offs for wheels. Nice
color, too. |
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This is the thunder
shark, a '90 GT. You have to hear it in person to
get the full effect of the exhaust that Louis built.
Louis had an hour of dyno time scheduled and had a hatch
full of goodies to aid his testing. Points of interest for me: the run with the K&N air filter was a few horses short of the run with the stock air filter; and replacing the ribbed air intake with smooth wasn't much of a gain with 5 liters. YMMV. Sadly, the GT
got indigestion after lunch and rode home on a flatbed
truck. Apparently Louis has been working on the car since
the first of the year and just got it running the day
before. |
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Duane &
Dawn's car raised a few eyebrows as it arrived. It has
interesting mixed-model visual cues due to a mishap from
behind. They didn't run the car on the dyno but made for
some enjoyable conversion. Duane is the Membership
Chairman for the PCA/PNWR. |
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Chris brought
his '91 S4 A/T in from Spokane, apparently a long, dirty
trip. I think the car is actually black. :) The 2-3-4 run
in the video is considerably longer than the 4 seconds or
so most of the automatics took on their run. |
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This is Nick's
'88 S4 5-speed, another very nice car. Good numbers
again. |
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This is Tom's
other shark, and '87, which had the distinction of being
the only one to send us all ducking for cover. :) Tom
lost part of a tire on this run. |
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This is Lloyd's
'91 GT, Marine Blue. Another very nice car that posted
some very nice numbers. |
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Oscar's '81 A/T
is Chiffon White with leather interior. The interior and
engine look as new. The photo of the car in the street
shows the color the best. |
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Andy's '81 Euro
5-speed has the dubious distinction of being the most
recently in an accident. But it sure sounds strong. |
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Other Links: | Chris has stats and some good video posted on his site at www.928s4.com. |