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Originally Posted by mikefocke
Recall that when Jake does an engine he goes back and forth from dyno to real world again and again. And yes he drives the car home and back over a very well learned road and if the real world doesn't reflect the dyno he'll tune it again until he gets the best balance...even factors in fuel consumption.
I know from talking to him several years ago how many experiments he went through just trying to learn the real world results of various exhaust mods, intake mods, tuning parameters, etc on various sized engines. He spent months on the project between tuning, dyno, track and his "home course" for dozens of iterations trying to find the right combination that wouldn't just look good on a dyno printout.
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The lab is where I spend a lot of time.. And we built that lab ourselves to work in a very sensible manner. We built the shop and the labs with the same hands that build engines, you won't find anyone else that can say they did that!
I just finished a 6,788 mile trip (in only 8 days of driving) to Edmonton AB Canada testing the IMS Solution and my Gen3 engine combination on real roads and even traveled 107 miles of that on a dirt road through Montana- because we wanted to. That trip found us at every elevation between -400 to 12,000' and temperatures from 27F to over 90F. This took us through both the US and Canadian Rockies and through plains and the Columbia Ice fields.
The IMS Solution and the entire Gen3 engine performed slightly different in the real world than it did in the lab, but overall it exceeded our original projections for MPG, oil consumption and wear levels. We just finished disassembling the IMS Solution for evaluation and found ZERO wear, even after these hard miles and 5,200 continuous start cycles. The final testing in extreme cold will be carried out this winter in Illinois and I'll drive the car to Toronto to teach my winter class as well.
Its all about practical application. No other group in this industry understands their products as well as we do prior to releasing them. Period.
