MotoIQ Pacific Tuner Car Championship Round 3 – Sonoma Raceway

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MPTCC Round 3 - Sonoma Raceway
The valve cover was removed as it was thought that the rockers or the shims may have come off. This has happened before when Michele over revved the engine. So, there was hope it was something as simple.
 
MPTCC Round 3 - Sonoma Raceway
However, after and inspection of the top end, everything seemed to be fine.  The engine started, ran, and shut off without the knocking noise that was heard earlier.  The noise that was heard coming off the dyno ended up being an intake pipe clanking around in the engine bay.
 
MPTCC Round 3 - Sonoma Raceway
However, the Gruppe-S crew can now say “I know My Power!” These buttons are provided to anyone who runs the MCE Racing Dyno, as Eddy displays!
 
MPTCC Round 3 - Sonoma Raceway
So, with Michele's car possibly having an engine issue, the MPTCC staff decided that Project G20 Racecar would also be tested. This would be the final test to reveal if the dyno was reading too high or too low.
 
MPTCC Round 3 - Sonoma Raceway
Project G20 made 210 WHP in its last Dyno pull for the MPTCC. On the MCE DynoJet Mobile Dyno it only belted out 186 WHP. A difference of 24 WHP and a dyno that reads lower than the official MPTCC Dyno at Road Race Engineering
 
MPTCC Round 3 - Sonoma Raceway
This news only made for more trouble and hot heads. What are we going to do about this one?
 

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