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I have used it many times in America RN.

But most are not from Australia.

And most are of guys drivng there cars.

There are not many guys putting ther cars on youtube.

Everytime we do something large it should be on youtube.

In American they have run where you will find 500 to 1K cars from one manufacture.

And we should do the same because Australia is the largest importer of skyline from Japan.

People in the states are youtubing there dyno runs.

Lets show the world our dyno runs.

Dyno videos are quite boring - but ok. What about a youtube video of your car just going vid? :P

I'll do one when it goes on for its full tune, but here is one done while in the "working through bugs" stage... its venting externally as part of an elimination process to find out what the cause for wastegate creep I have been experiencing is. The conclusion is the wastegate hasn't been getting enough flow, as it still creeps and you can hear when the wastegate first opens that its not actually letting much gas by until the turbine actually starts getting a bit of pressure so have had to rework how the wastegate bypasses gas past the turbo. In the mean time it has been road tuned to make sure its running semi-ok and to trace how much creep it gets.

Anyway, clip of a couple of runs on our bit of test road.

Vrooom?

From the recent qld dyno day, courtesy of Col-GTSX:

I have one of my own dyno run that I could upload as well, but honestly, even watching my own cars dyno run is boring. My camera clips most of the sound out to begin with, then youtube just makes it worse. Not being able to hear just how loud these really are (or are not in the case of my car) is just sucky.

unless the cars either yours or someone you know, or the car is making 1000hp, there fairly boring to watch IMO

Even then its boring.

Unless your big power machine starts smoking up its tyres on the dyno, or blows its engine, or some other "wow" beastliness, a 1000hp run looks no different to a 200hp run. Oh look! The rear wheels are spinning on some rollers and its making a lot of noise!

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