Thanks, of course inevitably I've fallen into the trap of making many predictions around Monty's potential new torque and horsepower numbers, but with rolling road sessions my experience is, it's best to....
"prepare one's self to be disappointed"Oddly, despite the objective of this latest tuning project being to get Monty over 200hp, the final power output is actually the least important factor, the questions I'm continually asking myself to measure the success of this one are:
1. Have I retained acceptable idle quality?
2. Have I retained Monty's excellent town managers and overall drivability?
3. Have I retained the torque bubble from 2,000 - 3,000rpm?
How the car drives and how the engine generally feels on the road is the real measure of success here, ironically making more power isn't the difficult bit, the challenge is making more power without turning the car into something that's frustrating to drive.
The numbers I record today are really not that important, because I already know Monty feels a lot stronger and he keeps making power over 6,500rpm where the Newman Phase 2 cams gave up previously. I also know I can still smoothly regulate road speed through town on the throttle between 1,500 - 2,000rpm with no frustrating engine behaviors.
However, I appreciate we all love a dyno result and there are are a few of you out there in Talk Morgan Land waiting with excitement to hear the results, so I'll update you all later today
