Power Check

I ran down to Super Autobacs in Yokohama in early June to run Roxy on the chassis dyno. I'd been there with John in his previous RX-8 in April so I wanted to see how the cars compared. If the truth be known a red RX-8 was supposed to come and dyno with me but a late night out the night before meant the driver needed his beauty sleep :-O!!!

Getting the dyno is pretty easy if they are not busy. Its 5,250 yen to get your car on it which is reasonable enough. They did 2 runs and got max power of 190.5 PS on the second run. Max torque was 18.3 kg-m. The photo shows a comparison between John's old 8 and mine. They are quite different, but then again so was my first/second runs. This dyno biz is definitely not an exact science. My first run had me at 185.5 PS and 18.1 kg-m of torque which is quite different.

My only power mod is my Racing Beat exhaust. John had the full R-Magic exhaust system headers/cat and exhaust. The 8 is supposedly 250 PS stock. 20% loss to clutch (conservative) would be 200 PS. With a power mod, I'm only making 190... I wonder what the car made when it was stock?!