QuickSilver
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So I must have called about 20 tuner shops with dyno's in the LA/OC/SoCal area,I pulled them off of the DynoJet website which could clearly stand to be updated as about 8 or so of the shops were out of business or the number disconnected. One of the shops was too big to be bothered to rent thier Dyno out (Cobb Tuning 
and one didn't call me back for two days (GRC in MV). Most of the rest only have 2WD dynos. Anyway, I had a great coversation from a very cool shop owner/tuner at Powertrain Dynamics in HB who had me try GMG Motorsports in Santa Ana/Costa Mesa. These guys were very professional on the phone, gave me the rates($175/hr, or 4 pulls with AFR readings) and set an appointment. Done and done. I have seen the GMG windshield banners around for years on Porsches but had never been there. When I got there it was :yikes: They have 10 lifts, 5 full semi's with custom car carriers, and Porches, Ferraris, Maserati's, Audis(old school Quatros thru R8's) everywhere. Man, this place has some eye candy hanging out in their building!! Not only do they have an AWD dyno but it's in it's own room or 'cell' that has full venting, lotsa air movers and a couple giant windows for viewing 8) Yeah, they won't let you in the cell during the runs but in our litiginous society, who can blame them...I did get some jabs from a couple techs about dyno'ing a kid mover but it was in good fun. So I'd like to say I have great back to back results of stock Vs LMS 93 Octane V3 'high boost' calibration but the way I ordered the 93 cal, it's set up for downpipes, full exhaust, and an upgraded IC so the tune was way to rich to make big HP gains(tho it did make over 60lbsft of torque) with all stock hardware. It'll be a couple weeks before the other upgrades. If my schedule allows, I'll see if I can get another session after doing just the exhaust & DP's to see how much just those alone are worth. Oh and I didn't notice(or specify I guess??) that the tech didn't hook up the AF ratio probe so we didn't get those numbers, my bad. And no, I don't have any datalogging equip yet. I prolly won't know how to use that stuff when I do get it :icon_redface: I'm Kinda stuck in the mechanical/analog gauge zone like the ones I've been using for 25 years. The ESport is my first modern turbo project...
and one didn't call me back for two days (GRC in MV). Most of the rest only have 2WD dynos. Anyway, I had a great coversation from a very cool shop owner/tuner at Powertrain Dynamics in HB who had me try GMG Motorsports in Santa Ana/Costa Mesa. These guys were very professional on the phone, gave me the rates($175/hr, or 4 pulls with AFR readings) and set an appointment. Done and done. I have seen the GMG windshield banners around for years on Porsches but had never been there. When I got there it was :yikes: They have 10 lifts, 5 full semi's with custom car carriers, and Porches, Ferraris, Maserati's, Audis(old school Quatros thru R8's) everywhere. Man, this place has some eye candy hanging out in their building!! Not only do they have an AWD dyno but it's in it's own room or 'cell' that has full venting, lotsa air movers and a couple giant windows for viewing 8) Yeah, they won't let you in the cell during the runs but in our litiginous society, who can blame them...I did get some jabs from a couple techs about dyno'ing a kid mover but it was in good fun. So I'd like to say I have great back to back results of stock Vs LMS 93 Octane V3 'high boost' calibration but the way I ordered the 93 cal, it's set up for downpipes, full exhaust, and an upgraded IC so the tune was way to rich to make big HP gains(tho it did make over 60lbsft of torque) with all stock hardware. It'll be a couple weeks before the other upgrades. If my schedule allows, I'll see if I can get another session after doing just the exhaust & DP's to see how much just those alone are worth. Oh and I didn't notice(or specify I guess??) that the tech didn't hook up the AF ratio probe so we didn't get those numbers, my bad. And no, I don't have any datalogging equip yet. I prolly won't know how to use that stuff when I do get it :icon_redface: I'm Kinda stuck in the mechanical/analog gauge zone like the ones I've been using for 25 years. The ESport is my first modern turbo project...
The shop I use is Costa Mesa Muffler, they are the only shop that I know of in 'The OC' that has a mandrel bender. Mike has done over a dozen systems for me over the years and I've never been dissatisfied.