Ok, for those who have been waiting...here they are.
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Guys today was good, then turned not so nice and then good again. Let me 'splain.
First off the guys at Active are a top notch group. I cant think of a another set of guys I would rather take my car to and if i had an E36 M3 they would be it. PERIOD! They are some serious cats. I saw things that i shouldnt know about and no one, not a single person is going to get the info out of me. (Told you I wouldnt say anything Rey). I dont know what you're talk'n bout...honestly officer. They were great the entire day and answered any comments/questions/bitches/moans/groans or complaints I had. Specially since i got a little cranky cause i had to be up at 5am to be down in Miami by 9.
NOW back to our regularly scheduled program. Dyno'd the car and it was all going well. Conditions werent good for humans but ok for the car (65-68 windy and cloudy). By the way, what a noise my baby makes..im still deaf in my right ear as it was closest to the exhaust. What did you say? You're going to have to speak up! I was thinking it was going to make more power than it did but then i had to look at some previous dynos because Active uses a Mustang Dyno vs a Dynojet.
Best stock run 316hp@6500 and 309lb/ft@2500....equates to about 418 and about 375lb/ft from what math i was doing. Avg runs were about 312 and about 305. So the exhaust is making some good power and some good noise. There is a video that Rey took and it might show up on the website....i dont know, his call not mine.
Not bad but certainly it could be better...the car was really really really rich and the A/F meter was picking it up. This would be an on going problem with my car for the entire day there. So because of that, she got a few more runs on the dyno while Active tryed to figure out why. First off we know there is more power to be had with my car in its not so stock form if only the car would lean out with power applications. Here in lies the problem to be dicusses later.
The install was great and I need to get my buddy that i took with me to download some of his digital pics and i need to develop some normal film. They will be up though at some point very soon. It took about and hour and a half maybe a little more to install and so I contined to recover my hearing at this point. So out to brunch or lunner (whichever you prefer) with my buddy and Rey as they finished up the install. Great fit and great great great. I cant say it enough, looks alot better in person as the rings are nice and shinny.
So up for intake dyno now...at first the car does about the same as stock. What the heck is that??? Well as the car adapts (or lack there of) it doesnt get better and a little worse because now there is to much fuel in the engine for even the intake to counter act. OH GREAT, is what is going through my head. I soon became an unhappy customer because its not the intakes fault, its my own car's fault (as proven by the first set of A/F ratios+dyno runs). STEVE WE NEED POWERCHIPS!!! GET ON IT MAN!
As the guys scramble to figure out how to get this car to put up some numbers they found that the car wasnt at all adapting to the intake (All you dinan haters- here is your shot) The only difference in my car versus any other car that was on the dyno in a software sense was the dinan software. And since you can normally adjust the stock OEM acclimation paramaters, we concluded that the dinan software was causing the problem by not adapting. Ok one problem solved but how can i fix the A/F ratio you say? Well there are some thoughts on this one...have the cars ecu go back to stock or get the upgraded Stg II dinan software and hope that it settles out the A/F ratio and the ECU's hesitance to not change. But there is a light at the end of the tunnel...
As the car got more and more acclimated to the intake it did start to make more power. The max power stock vs max power intake arent great (8hp and 8.5 ft/lbs= 324 wheels/430+flywheel 318lb/ft=about 385lb/ft) but you have to remember my car is having some serious software problems even before it went on. There is some good power to be had once i get it settled out... For those of you looking at just plain peak numbers thats not the whole story. The car made more power over 99% of the power band and the avg-gains verses the avg-stock runs were at 10-15 range hp and 13-15 ft/lbs. I know that i wrote earlier that it was only 8 on each but that was best stock run vs the best modded run, not the comparison between the averages.
Am I happy yes. As happy as I could be, no. The fault lies not with the intake but my stupid dinan software (and i called them to ask why this might happen- they blame the airflow meters). I know what i saw and the proof lies there, the dinan software is not kosher with my new intake.......hold on, dont go anywhere! As I drove home it continued to adapt and as of right now i would venture to say there there might be an extra 8-10 that didnt show up at the shop that showed up under my hood.
Guys this intake makes power and please please dont let it sway you. I know that both Steve (Xray) and I have had some software problems but you can see that it makes power and if he and I get the software settled, watch out!
Best of luck to those who got on the group buy and I swear...im going to do one thing or another to get back my sneeky Horses. Hey Rey, again I didnt say anything about what im not supposed to know.....
The intake is getting better and im going to try and post the numbers tomorrow...later...
Im going to try and get the Stg II software and see if that helps...if not i have 30 days to take it off. 
