Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Would you like to own your own Dynometer for less?

If you have any type of toyz you race on the weekends then you know the value of having the availability of using a dynometer. When professional race car teams invest up to $100,000.00 dollars into an egnine for one race on Saturday, they need to know exactly what the engine can do and exact horsepower numbers. Well if you have an extra $50,000 to $100,000 dollars sitting around, you can buy and install a dyno in your shop or garage.

If you are like the rest of us out here in the real world, then that kind of investment is out of the question. But if you are like me and have a car like a porsche or a tuner import with about $20,000 just in the engine and do the weekend runs at the local strip, you can either go to a dyno shop and plunk down $350-$500 for your car to run three passes.

Now there is an option available to enthusiasts like you and I, it is the PLX custom Guage Library, OBD, and Data Logger from PLX.

First of all the guages are great, they replace analog or even digital guages that look and read only what the factory decided what they should do. The PLX guages or organic. What does that mean? It means that you can change the face of the guages to any look you want with HDTV picture quality. They install in minutes as easy as a OEM replacement from the factory. They are designed to be do what you want them to do as a warning to you for rpms or oil temps or anything you need to have monitored. If you need more than just guage monitoring then PLX also has the 200-OBD unit. This is a guage that monitors off of your OBD II plug in on your 1996 or newer vehicle. Just plug it in and monitor all your sensors. It is like talking to your cars computer while driving. The only thing better is to have the PLX Imf Data Logger.

Over the next few weeks we will be playing with and testing the three items here from PLX and letting you know how they do in our tests and how they will do on your vehicles.

These are the toyz the winning teams use for the type of toy in the picture next to me.

Nick.....

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