What Is Steady State?
Steady state dynamometer
loading is a manner where you can load the
vehicle at a given RPM or MPH and hold the
vehicle there no matter how much the
throttle is depressed. For example you could
load a vehicle at 2000 RPMS at 10% throttle
blade opening, then you could depress the
gas pedal to 100% open and the engine RPM
would stay at 2000 RPM. This is extremely
useful for custom tuning EFI applications,
where you would like to tune all of the
parameters in the 2000 RPM range. This is a
much more enhanced approach to tuning than
full inertia dyno pulls. With a tuning
method like this your car, truck, suv or van
will run and drive more like it did stock
but with much more power and better economy.
We always start with a vehicles baseline pull
with no changes to the PCM (Powertrain Control
Module). At this point it really does not matter
how much power you made at the last dyno. We are
after real gains, what it made before we started
and what it makes when we are complete...
repeatable numbers.
Sounds great, but how
much does this cost?