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Hi guys. If anyone could shine some light on this it would be greatly appreciated.
Taken my ep3 for its first ever dyno run today, and had a rather harsh wake up call. My car seems to be lacking a substantial amount of power compared to a lot of the guys who were running almost identical modifications, and even more surprisingly less than a bone stock one.
Car is a 52 plate, and covered nearly 75k, full history and serviced regularly. Plugs were swapped out for iridiums about 6 months ago, and the timing chain has been done in the previous owners care. Only modifications that should affect power output slightly are Tegiwa induction kit and a 2.5 catback exhaust. After it's dyno run the best it managed was 187hp. 3 friends running almost identical mods hit 198 to 200 and a guy who came with a completely standard car managed the factory 197. If it helps all the other 4 cars are past the 110k mark so I need to find out where I'm going wrong.
I seem to have reduced my cars power, as opposed to increasing it. I didn't expect to be making any records but surely improving the breathing should have helped. The other thing that confuses me, is when me and any of my friends have had a play on private roads I seem to pull away from them all slowly. Genuinely can't seem get my head around it.
If anyone can pass on something I might be missing it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Taken my ep3 for its first ever dyno run today, and had a rather harsh wake up call. My car seems to be lacking a substantial amount of power compared to a lot of the guys who were running almost identical modifications, and even more surprisingly less than a bone stock one.
Car is a 52 plate, and covered nearly 75k, full history and serviced regularly. Plugs were swapped out for iridiums about 6 months ago, and the timing chain has been done in the previous owners care. Only modifications that should affect power output slightly are Tegiwa induction kit and a 2.5 catback exhaust. After it's dyno run the best it managed was 187hp. 3 friends running almost identical mods hit 198 to 200 and a guy who came with a completely standard car managed the factory 197. If it helps all the other 4 cars are past the 110k mark so I need to find out where I'm going wrong.
I seem to have reduced my cars power, as opposed to increasing it. I didn't expect to be making any records but surely improving the breathing should have helped. The other thing that confuses me, is when me and any of my friends have had a play on private roads I seem to pull away from them all slowly. Genuinely can't seem get my head around it.
If anyone can pass on something I might be missing it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.