Originally Posted by jmccartney285

Utah,

I certainly appreciate your mediation of the issue and would never take offense to something as benign as an explanation. However, I see no potential harm in expressing my observations. In most, if not all cases, more knowledge is usually better than less knowledge. People can derive from it what they may, and I am certainly welcome to replicating this information in other venues if they might also and more appropriately benefit.


Anyway.

I went over to my boys Doug and George at Power Pros Friend Them On Facebook to have them install and test out this timing correction "sprocket" on their DynoJet. My car is an AP1 with 170,xxx miles, compression across all cylinders are around 220 psi, and I have a Berk Hi-Flow cat and Berk 3" cat-back exhaust.

I performed 3 baseline pulls. One reading of 207whp and two readings of 209whp. All of the mentioned figures were SAE corrected.



Then we got to the install. I am mechanically useless beyond changing oil and spark plugs, so George made it look easy.

The culprit:


It is pretty clear to see that the timing scribes are markedly misaligned. I realize that the teeth alignment might even be the most important factor, but for now I am only focused on the scribes, as that seems to be what Ballade has based their modification off of:


A little blurry, but you can clearly see that the right scribe is distictly elevated:



I'd say the install itself took 40 minutes from start to finish.

The results. You can clearly make out that the scribes are now level with each other with the Ballade sprocket installed. Frankly, I was very surprised how perfect they lined up:


The alignment on the crank also matches up perfectly, although the angle and picture quality aren't perfect:



Throw it all back together:



Back to the dyno for three more pulls:



Based on these results, with the timing sprocket installed, my engine made between 6 and 10 additional whp when taking in to account the combinations of the highest and lowest readings. The timing sprocket was the ONLY variable. The car sat for equal amounts of time between pulls so that heat soak would not be a factor.



There was no funny business or trickery or fuel additives or manipulation of any sort beyond switching out the Ballade timing sprocket.
I am personally not overly concerned with the engineering behind it. I understand in basic principle what it was designed to do. And whether that is based on false principles is slightly irrelevant, because in the end it seems to make indisputable power increases.

I just ask that everyone openly consider these results and factor them into their perspectives.

Originally Posted by caleb2483

would new engines benefit from this as well (say less than 30k)? or necessary on engines with higher miles like 100k+?

Originally Posted by //steve\\

Did I Miss the cost of this somewhere?

Originally Posted by BalladeSports

Our unit cost lists for $299.99. Here is a direct link to our website item. Thank you

http://www.balladesports.com/product...orrection-gear