It is what it is. (unless your saying there's something broke or wrong with my setup...then I'm all ears!)
The point I was really attempting to show was the difference between 93 and Flexfuel with the fuel and tune being the only difference. Although the engine bay was probably a bit hotter on the E60 pulls than the 93 pulls which was after a 2.5-hour drive in 90-degree weather to get to Moto-East.
Since my goals don't include having the highest possible HP # for a Edelbrock SC Automatic BRZ, I'm fine with the HP and Torque #'s. What's important to me is daily drivability, reliability, and to safely add power which @
moto-mike is fully aware of. Being an automatic does also present some unique challenges in balancing power with drivability and I lean towards drivability.
As for what's on my car besides the obvious Edelbrock kit (w/stock pulley), I have the Tomei UEL, Gruppe-S over pipe, 200 cell high flow cat, 2.5" pipes all the way back thru one 18" resonator to a QTP exhaust cut out valve, with the other side going thru another 18" to the stock muffler (yes, stock muffler, the Magnaflow I originally had was just too F'n loud! If I want loud, I just crack the bypass valve open a bit
). The valve was open on the E60 runs so the muffler never came into play.
Different cars with different goals with different mods on different dynos with different tuners in different environments on different days are going to yield......different results.
