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    You know...a few people have been implying that the tests don't simulate conditions- ->
    Posted by: LI-S4 on 2006-09-30 18:17:51
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    In Reply to: I think what he is suggesting is that there be essentially posted by Flyboy on 2006-09-30 17:32:26

    under which IC's are meant to be used.

    To this... Five FATS runs, even with a short cool-down in between are far more stressful and less reflective of daily driving.. even hard-core driving. At least for me. The most aggressive street racer doesn't do two races back to back as such a test would be depicting.

    It might be closer to what a track event would impose on the car although even there, with drafting conditions and traffic around you the IC's see more turbulent air then a FATS run.

    How closely does a dyno pull duplicate a real world road condition?? Blowers pumping cooling air into the shrouds and cool-down period between pulls, with no wind resistence?

    So where will this stop? Next someone will suggest we should have tested the performance of the IC's going in reverse.

    I believe the tests we did were pretty comprehensive given the restraints we had. I believe the only shortcoming was in the bench test...if I could do that over I would change a few things.

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