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Old 07-10-2014, 07:40 AM   #88
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Originally Posted by nelsmar View Post
If you are familiar with MAHA dyno's they will do a wind down to detect drivetrain loss, you can see my car losing ~58HP at via the drivetrain. A number of OEM's use these dyno's for chasis testing as they can estimate the crank power as well. Given i don't know everything about how the calculation works or the real answer to drivetrain loss but from what I have been told it is fairly accurate. *shrug*
Probably got our wires crossed. I know about wind down loss calculations and anywhere around 50bhp is possible and actually very likely. What I meant was that if there are 50bhp losses at 150whp, does not mean 300whp = 100bhp losses.
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