Dyno Time!

We got some dyno time a couple days ago with our buddy Alan Jackson over at Edge Autosport to see how the street e-tune he did performed in a controlled environment. As mentioned earlier, our shop FL5 was the used for Cobb Tuning's beta R&D for the MY25. Previously, on Cobb's dyno it baselined stock at right around 300whp/300wtq and with the Cobb Stage 1 OTS 93 octane map, it gained +20whp and +20wtq (maybe +30wtq). The dyno we used with Alan was a Dynojet, and oddly enough, it read low, at least compared to Cobb's dyno. Maybe it was also because it was kind of warm, with virtually no airflow to the IC (the dinky fan did basically nothing) as IATs were climbing to close to 120F just sitting there or there was some sort of correction factor going on.

Either way, it doesn't really matter at that point as we were going to baseline everything on this dyno and with the baseline on the same dyno, the deltas would be accurate. We baselined it at 283whp/298wtq on Cobb Stage 0 93 octane (aka: Stock map).

Run 2 would be the street e-tune Alan had tuned for us. While the street e-tune performed pretty well, driveability was great, and validated the logs we captured, Alan wanted to try out a little bit of a different strategy using torque modeling compared to what he did previously on the e-tune.

As you see, the final results in Run 3 are quite a drastic difference. 326whp/343wtq

The final tune gained peak +43whp and +45wtq from baseline!

We're very happy with the tune, and you can definitely feel the additional torque up top, and the powerband is much improved.

Fast forward to tonight - we installed the aFe Takeda Intake, did more logging and testing (75-ish miles driven tonight while logging). Logs to me look good from AFR to LTFT, but of course sent it off to Alan to verify as he's the expert tuner here.

Looks cool, spruces up the engine bay a bit, and makes a little more noise. We have this intake on our FK8 as well, so we've had good experience with it thus far.