Got my car dyno'd

[blueroo]

Hey all,
Well, I got my Fairlane dyno'd at Carlisle. Power isn't as much as I was hoping for though. Out of the two pulls my best hp was 71 and my best torque was 128. I was shooting for 105 hp, undecided on torque. But hey, it's still a relatively stock motor compared to some of yours, and I'm trying to look at it as there's nowhere to go but up.

 

[addo]

Actually, I think that's a good 170 motor in standard build. Remember how much a crock the manufacturer numbers were?

 

[rickwrench]

Marketing departments look for the sexy number, which was gross power - engine on a dyno with no accesories (just like engine masters).
I have scans of some GM Corvair engineering department engine test data that shows the dyno numbers on the engines, AND, everything else an engineer would want to check on, bmep, fuel consumption and AF ratios, friction losses, cranking pressure, VE, all at different rpm, the -exact- compression ratio of each cylinder on the tested engine and then the average of all six. Plus all the engine specs. In the "gross power" test, i.e., engine, no accesories, premium fuel, the 110 hp Corvair engine pulled 112hp @ 4400rpm, 153ftlbs @ 3000rpm on the dyno (ah ha! induction limited you say). Also included were "as installed" hp numbers, these were rolling road dyno numbers. The "as installed" number on 1965 110 engine/manual transmission corvairs was 82.8hp. This would be the actual rear wheel hp of the car as it left the factory. Also included was "as installed" power with the engine advanced to to the detonation threshold, 90.8hp, or the best number the engineers could get out of the finished 110 test cars with some fine tuning.
An essentially stock Ford 170 has about 1/3 the amount of venturi space as a 110 Corvair. I'd say your numbers are great.
There has to some Ford documentation like this somewhere. Where do we get it?
Rick