Mugen Header Dyno Sheets
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<<Why would you want to nullify your knock sensor? You still want the knock sensor to operate. That's a pretty important part of the engine survival mechanism.>>
Yes! Don't nullify your knock sensor!! Without it it is possible to have lots of detonation under some conditions AND you won't hear a thing at high revs, where it is most destructive. Detonation is sorta like setting off a small bomb at the wrong time in your motor. You can kill an engine in seconds or less.
One way to render the sensor less active is to do things that cut detonation in the first place. One example is better gas.
If you like to tweak such as moi, it is easy to build a knock monitor much more sensitive than any commercially available for about 10-15 dollars and 15 minutes.
Stan
Yes! Don't nullify your knock sensor!! Without it it is possible to have lots of detonation under some conditions AND you won't hear a thing at high revs, where it is most destructive. Detonation is sorta like setting off a small bomb at the wrong time in your motor. You can kill an engine in seconds or less.
One way to render the sensor less active is to do things that cut detonation in the first place. One example is better gas.
If you like to tweak such as moi, it is easy to build a knock monitor much more sensitive than any commercially available for about 10-15 dollars and 15 minutes.
Stan
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Don't know about you but when you consider the extremely small hosepower gain only in the upper rev range $1300.00 dollars seems quite high. I spoke to Comptech and they said that they would probally not be producing a header for the SK due to this reason. They said,they've done considerable dyno testing with many diffrent configurations and can't get the pipes to make the power lower than 8500. If you notice the dyno sheet showes that this is pretty much true. Think I'll save the $1300 as a down payment on the Comptech SuperCharger.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bieg:
[B]Maybe the Mugen headers transfer MORE heat to the engine compartment than the stock headers do.
So you lost 2 HP peak and shifted it lower down in the rev range and picked up 4 pounds of torque.
Doesn't seem worth the effort.
[B]Maybe the Mugen headers transfer MORE heat to the engine compartment than the stock headers do.
So you lost 2 HP peak and shifted it lower down in the rev range and picked up 4 pounds of torque.
Doesn't seem worth the effort.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Bieg:
[b]Maybe the Mugen headers transfer MORE heat to the engine compartment than the stock headers do.
So you lost 2 HP peak and shifted it lower down in the rev range and picked up 4 pounds of torque.
Doesn't seem worth the effort. I bet that just replacing the stock airfilter with a K&N would yield a more impressive dyno plot.
Your right though!
[This message has been edited by Jeff (edited December 01, 2000).]
[b]Maybe the Mugen headers transfer MORE heat to the engine compartment than the stock headers do.
So you lost 2 HP peak and shifted it lower down in the rev range and picked up 4 pounds of torque.
Doesn't seem worth the effort. I bet that just replacing the stock airfilter with a K&N would yield a more impressive dyno plot.
Your right though!
[This message has been edited by Jeff (edited December 01, 2000).]
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