AWD dyno anywhere?

NYSpeed Automotive
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Hello all I’m fairly new to the nyspeed forum.

I tried the search and a few relevant posts came up. But they were quite dated, beginning of the year.

I just got a new car. It is a mazda speed6 and it has AWD. I’m lookng for a place that I can have the car dyno’ed to get a baseline dyno, along with the a/f ratio. Because I think the car is running QUITE rich.

Also what prices can I expect to have to pay for a baseline dyno run? I’m used to the places and the prices for dyno’ing motorcycles. But I’ve never tried to get a car dynoed. :slight_smile:

Thanks,
Randy

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i think innovative tuning is getting one or maybe they got it already… mikes a standup guy too so drop him a pm…

inntune or innovativetuning… not sure his name on here…

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WILLY wassup man…over here on nyspeed too huh :slight_smile:

So sad I sold my bike :frowning:

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i know… i was interested a bit… ijust dont have the capital… i’ve been on nyspeed for a long time… this is a great forum… it moves MUCH quicker than wnysr…

i admire you for seeling it, i could never do it… :frowning:

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last i heard, innovative didnt get their dyno in yet, but im not 100% certain.
the only one i know of at the moment is at Kennedys…whom ive heard great things and bad things about. http://www.kennedysdynotune.com/AWD%20Dyno.htm

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do NOT go to kennedys…

and no innovative does not have the dyno yet :frowning:

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mabey I’ll get a discount if I mention they fugged up this line on their website :):

“Use until December 31, 2007 and avoid the Jan. 1 price increase”

Thanks for the link…

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pretty sure kennedys has mismatched rollers…heard some guy blew up a diff there…

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Yeah mismatched rollers are not good

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BTW is it the black one i see downtown near franklyn all the time?

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way too much advice against that place. Thanks guys I might have gone there if you didn’t tell me otherwise, and gotten crapped on…

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No it’s white.

I haven’t seen another one around yet…plenty of regular 6’s but not another speed6.

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How does the AWD system on the 6 work?

I’ve heard that it runs like the VW Haldex system, FWD most of the time until they start losing grip.

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are you going to paint your real car like your old RC cars? :smiley:

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Yes it is a similar setup. It is normally 100% fwd biased and when it detects front/rear wheel speed mismatch, it will transfer from 10-50% of the power to the rear wheels.

The system works very well as I found out during that huge storm we had, seamless transition and if you turn off the dsc/tcs it will oversteer very predictably. Donuts are fun in a snowy parking lot…

I’m pretty happy with it even though it gulps fuel when you get into the boost, which is addicting…and that’s 93 octane fuel…ouch.

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Hey man I can’t believe you’re on here. Good to hear from you again…

Actually I ran the bmw m3 body more but I couldn’t afford a 1:1 of those :frowning:

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I have seem 2 differnt red ones, one uber douchebag in a black one, thats the guy downtown. I was plotting tee he he. I have not seen one in white, thats pretty hot for that car. I should know a thing or two about rare paint color cause i have the supre never seen blue sti /sarcasm. Hope to see you around, thats a nice car.

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Thanks Rob. I was looking at the sti too but it was too much $$ for me, and the subie guys wouldn’t budge. Plus the tires had to go they looked like motorcycle tires with no tread :slight_smile:

This car has what they call “summer tires” too but they do ok in snow.

They were giving like $4k off on the ms6 and $2k off the sticker.

Anyways I’d like to get a baseline dyno and then I’ like to get a cai and mabey an exhaust. It’s pretty quick but it’s no wrx or sti. It’s heavy.

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LOL! Thats amazing what sales guys will say to sell a car even if it kills you.

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What you lose in performance, you gain in creature comforts, which for a daily driver I would not underestimate.

That and you fly really low under the radar with cops…