Today was dynotune day for the Blue Flame.
The location was Rodeheavers Hot Rod Shop in PA, about 45 minutes from home. The tuner(s) was Rob and Don Lasota from LaSota Racing out of OH.
Rodeheavers had quite a few nice rides at his shop.
Several pulls were required to make Don satisfied and prior to the heatsoak setting in the car saw numbers like 315ish RWHP with around 330 RWTQ. A couple attempts were made to tweak the shift points while on the dyno and Rob wanted to see if there was any difference with the cutouts open.
The final pull registered 306 RWHP and 313 RWTQ.
The average was 212 HP and 271 LBFT of torque.The crew at the shop was impressed with the shiny Lincoln, it especially got their attention with the cutouts open.
After a road test, we upped the shift points on 2 of the 4 chip positions and did some more road testing. The new Nitto 255s wouldn't hold from a WOT launch and the resulting wheelspin made it difficult to judge at times but from a roll, I decided I liked the higher shift points.
Pics and a couple videos can be found here.
Now we anxiously await opening day at the track.
The location was Rodeheavers Hot Rod Shop in PA, about 45 minutes from home. The tuner(s) was Rob and Don Lasota from LaSota Racing out of OH.
Rodeheavers had quite a few nice rides at his shop.
Several pulls were required to make Don satisfied and prior to the heatsoak setting in the car saw numbers like 315ish RWHP with around 330 RWTQ. A couple attempts were made to tweak the shift points while on the dyno and Rob wanted to see if there was any difference with the cutouts open.
The final pull registered 306 RWHP and 313 RWTQ.
The average was 212 HP and 271 LBFT of torque.The crew at the shop was impressed with the shiny Lincoln, it especially got their attention with the cutouts open.
After a road test, we upped the shift points on 2 of the 4 chip positions and did some more road testing. The new Nitto 255s wouldn't hold from a WOT launch and the resulting wheelspin made it difficult to judge at times but from a roll, I decided I liked the higher shift points.
Pics and a couple videos can be found here.
Now we anxiously await opening day at the track.