Warning!! Detonation on the dyno.....
So I found a place in San Antonio with a dyno and checked it out today. I wanted a baseline here in texas so I would have a better comparison after the hondata flash. So I get on the dyno and tell the guy to pull in 4th gear. The car gets to about 5.5k and starts to ping (BAD!!!!) so the operator gets off the gas and was like what octane do you run with this thing. I told him 87, to which her replies, you can't do that with 11:1 compression, and I told him that it was not 11:1 but 9.8:1. He's like, isn't this the VTEC motor? At this point I'm upset, and having a hard time convincing the guy that it is indeed okay to run 87 octane. So they will let me re-dyno the car on monday after I get better gas. The thing is, I run 87 from Chevron every day and never had a problem. Maybe I got bad gas, maybe not. Maybe my car advanced the timing thinking I had a different octane, I don't know. But I do know that I won't be runing 87 any more. :'( :( :mad:
Here's the dyno. Notice the cirlces where the car started to retard power.
http://www.trailingsilence.com/dave/Dynos/pingdyno2.gif