CWC's 8th rolling road day was a return to JDM Dyno at Kirkbride Airfield near Carlisle. 8 cars ran in total, with plenty of others turning up to see what was on the rollers. As always there was a good mix of cars with both front wheel drive and rear wheel drive runners.

   Most people were happy with their power runs and a few were pleasantly surprised. A couple did go home wondering where some of their horses had wandered off to, but as ever Jonathan at JDM provided a few pointers that should help to tempt them back.

    The power runs shown below are flywheel horsepower, a 20% factor has been added to the wheel horsepower figures measured by the dyno to compensate for transmission losses. The actual transmission losses will vary by a few percent from car to car, but given that standard cars usually show standard power on the dyno, it's a pretty good approximation.

 

 

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Honda Civic Type-R

 

386.6bhp

 

427.5bhp (with nitrous)

 

Ford Sierra Cosworth

 

372.0bhp

 

Nissan Skyline

 

253.2bhp

 

Golf Gti diesel

 

221.0bhp

 

Seat Arosa

 

114.7bhp

 

Scoda Fabia

 

185.8bhp

 

Honda Civic

 

180.8bhp

 

Vauxhall Astra

 

233.7bhp