[Staowners] ALPINE engine power

[Mal Clark]

Hi everyone,I have been without my computer for a few weeks, now up and running ok, my Alpine is just about finished and driving and running beautiful, highly recommend Jim Wilkinson's Power steering kit,dont think he as yet come up with a left hand drive kit, it makes the Alpine driving a dream so so good,and with the Toyota Celica 5 speed gearbox as well it is superb, Today I had my alpine on the Dyno,I felt is wasn't quite right,being a new engine I didn't want to damage it, as it turned out it was running very rich so different jets in the carb and resetting the timing,etc produced an extra 7 kilowatts of power,the question I have,someone out there must know more than me on these power outputs, the first run up to only 3000rpm (NEW ENGINE REBUILD) on the Dyno it produced 30 kilowatts of power after the rejetting etc it produced 36.7 kilowatts . if you multiply the kilowatts by 1.34 it gives you the horse power,so it is producing 50 HP at 3000rpm at the back wheels, can someone tell me if that is good or average, as I have worked the motor, quite a bit,as I said it drives great, Manual states 80 BRAKE horse power for the Alpine, regards Mal Clark.
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