So color us obsessed if you want, but after our 15-second stock drag romp with Buford a little more than a week ago, we were really interested in putting this car on a dyno to get a rear wheel hp number. Dave Nutting was foaming at the mouth to see it happen and after poo pooing his idea, we decided to see if we could wrangle some roller time from a friend. We made several threatening phone calls to our pal Travis Johnson, the owner and operator of Performance Auto and Dyno in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Travis runs a nice repair shop, dyno tunes lots of stuff, and races his own six second twin turbo drag car along with a bitchin’ 275 Radial Mustang that his right hand man Ben Dahlgreen pilots.
We asked Johnson what we would need to do in order to put Buford T Justics on his DynoJet dyno and he told us to show up with pizza. That is something we are more than capable of doing. We are scheduled to be on his dyno at 10:30 eastern standard time this morning and we plan to hammer the car as many times as he will let us and playing with some of the same basic tuning tips we talked about at the drag strip. Maybe some timing here and there, air cleaner lid flip, etc. We think that we’re in for another numbers based surprise, just like the drag strip ET.
You have an easy job here:
Guess the RWHP of Buford T Justice. The closest guess without going over wins a BS shirt!
180.9
193hp
175 rwhp…FTW!
185
179.1
One dollar Bob
I say 212hp
169.2
170.1
Some last 2nd dyno tweaks to squeeze 150 at the wheels.
148 HP
204.3hp
205
186!
142 rompin’ stompin’ ponies.
187.78, get my shirt ready in 3X
174
166 RWHP
155hp ftw!
156 HP
186.66
172.5
183.5
184
193.1
158
202.3
128
210 – gotta account for the apparent secret sauce
238
168rwhp
does the prediction, “BLAMMO!” win a shirt?
Ron
173.9
I’ll take 220 if it posted a number.
I’ll guess 173.5 hp
201.7 hp
177
140 and a side of connecting rod.
186.5 and a “Go Get Em Flash”
169.3
167.2
183
167 rear wheel Horses.
208 tire fryin ponies
169 is a good guess based on the trap speed. Of coarse, there will be some more messing around trying to find cheap (free) horsepower. Maybe a timing bump, a bag of ice and a pull without the air cleaner at all; who knows?
My guess for the final pull?
176, that is unless they use a leaf blower to pressurize the intake. If so, then 176.9.
198
183
171.5
182.5
i call 165
171
142.7
187 rwhp