Project SC300 Road Racer: Part 17 – Get out there! Or not…

If things go wrong, you also have the big scary alarm page at your disposal.

Once you have all of your alarms configured, you can also configure the dedicated alarm page to display for any or all of them. You can also configure text for each of the warnings/alarms. This page will not go away unless the ACK(nowledge) button has been pressed. You can additionally configure a retrigger period to ensure that the page keeps coming back if the alarm condition is still there. You probably don’t want to keep driving if the oil pressure is consistently low, right?

Finally, after many hours of programming, diddling, trialing, erroring, and so on and so forth, we were done. We shipped the car over to Ed Senf’s dyno and got ready for the real moment(s) of truth.

All strapped down and ready to go!

Ed is a masterful Dynojet operator. He’s also been using this specific Dynojet (it’s his) for a really, really long time. He knows all of its quirks, behaviors, and habits. And he’s learned how to make it do exactly what he needs it to.

Unfortuntaely for me, the rollers aren’t quite perfect. Which normally wouldn’t be an issue, except that I am still rocking tires with a 2012 manufacture date that hadn’t rolled more than a few hundred feet in the last four years. They’re not rotted, and in fact look great, but they sure aren’t as soft as they used to be.

This meant that we had some trouble getting the car to stick to the rollers.

Ed is a true professional. And, while your car should be well prepared before showing up, Ed is capable of working around certain common issues, like needing a little more traction.

We added all of Ed’s weights to the trunk, which helped. We also ran the car in 5th gear, which helped a little more. But, we still ended up with a little bit of wheel spin on the dyno.

And here’s the car by the numbers! 372 / 380

Ed spent a little bit of time re-adjusting the baseline and general driveability, which was mostly just making big percentage adjustments due to the different base fuel pressure. Remember, this was the same engine, mechanically, that was using the same values copied over from the old Haltech Platinum Sport 2000 ECU. Some difference was expected, and this part went quickly.

A huge thanks go to all of our sponsors for getting us to this point!