AMD rolling road day 12th December

[RedRobin]

dynoing a car in the first place is mostly willy waving though isnt it.

You sorta already know what figures you should be getting by the mods you have fitted so tbh its pointless other than being a sorta health checkup, but then again logging on the road is better still

Evey rolling road day I have carried out has been about the fun the banta and meeting up with keyboard mates. Rolling road days get spoiled when its about having the most power. If a car makes -20bhp then the dyno and OP gets blamed and takes a slating.

The only time a rolling road is good is when you use the same dyno to monitor you tuning power gains vs your stock graphs.

Apart from that its a "lottery" and should be just a bit of fun hearing your pride and joy banging of the rev limiter, and if your lucky you will get nice pop bang and a flame.

Two year back we tested all the dynos in our local area using our 210bhp mk4 Gti, and the results ranged from 195bhp upto 225bhp over four dynos, we found the biggest variation to be the transmission losses.

Nick

....Which is why I rarely go to other rolling road days than JKM - They are 2.0T FSI experts and know my car and apart from the social, it's an opportunity for a health check. The laptop detail can follow if needed.

[Hurdy]

i heard that the best thing to do after you have had your day ruined on JKms rollers is to nip up to AMDs rollers.

Was it cupraK1 who did that at one of the RR days(might have been surrey) when his 360Hp(AMD rollers) stage 2 cupra failed to get those figures on the DD rollers.   

no one makes good figures on DD rollers though, especially JKM.

CupraK1s car has made up to 379bhp on rollers that didnt belong to AMD, and around 360hp on other dynos aswell.

I did with my ED30  - 440bhp and 510lbft 

[R-tech-Nick]

dynoing a car in the first place is mostly willy waving though isnt it.

You sorta already know what figures you should be getting by the mods you have fitted so tbh its pointless other than being a sorta health checkup, but then again logging on the road is better still

Evey rolling road day I have carried out has been about the fun the banta and meeting up with keyboard mates. Rolling road days get spoiled when its about having the most power. If a car makes -20bhp then the dyno and OP gets blamed and takes a slating.

The only time a rolling road is good is when you use the same dyno to monitor you tuning power gains vs your stock graphs.

Apart from that its a "lottery" and should be just a bit of fun hearing your pride and joy banging of the rev limiter, and if your lucky you will get nice pop bang and a flame.

Two year back we tested all the dynos in our local area using our 210bhp mk4 Gti, and the results ranged from 195bhp upto 225bhp over four dynos, we found the biggest variation to be the transmission losses.

Nick

....Which is why I rarely go to other rolling road days than JKM - They are 2.0T FSI experts and know my car and apart from the social, it's an opportunity for a health check. The laptop detail can follow if needed.

I give you respect for that, your the guy that stands there after your power run say it yet maybe be only 245bhp but on the road its awesome and I am 110% happy with the car, reamp and tuner.  Then there are some people moaning about being 3bhp down on quoted power.

Nick

[Sunglasses Ron]

i heard that the best thing to do after you have had your day ruined on JKms rollers is to nip up to AMDs rollers.

Was it cupraK1 who did that at one of the RR days(might have been surrey) when his 360Hp(AMD rollers) stage 2 cupra failed to get those figures on the DD rollers.   

no one makes good figures on DD rollers though, especially JKM.

CupraK1s car has made up to 379bhp on rollers that didnt belong to AMD, and around 360hp on other dynos aswell.

thats why all the willy wavers dont like DD rollers.  doesnt make sense to me. better to say you have less(or more accurately) then its even worse for the car you beat.


there are quite a few cars on here that have made very good figures o DD rollers.  Gazbut abnd PDT to name a few.

... And me.  God knows what it would make on JKM's though.. 

[Robert74]

I have had all my tuning work done at AMD and have been very happy with the results. From standard to stage 1 and stage 1 to stage 2 have been massive improvements in the way the car drives. Each time on the RR it shown a healthy power increase and the last time it showed 272bhp. However with the same mods etc I went to JKM's RR in October and made only 255bhp .  I am not worried by this variation as the car feels great and has improved each time it has been to AMD.

As long as you feel the improvement in the car the RR figure is not that important as long as it has improved on the same RR that you used previously. I really don't understand why readings vary so much from one RR to another.

[RedRobin]

....Which is why I rarely go to other rolling road days than JKM - They are 2.0T FSI experts and know my car and apart from the social, it's an opportunity for a health check. The laptop detail can follow if needed.

I give you respect for that, your the guy that stands there after your power run say it yet maybe be only 245bhp but on the road its awesome and I am 110% happy with the car, remap and tuner.  Then there are some people moaning about being 3bhp down on quoted power.

Nick

....Indeed I am that very man! There'll always be a faster more powerful car than mine and it doesn't bother me. I love every mile driving mine