"Altis" on dyno

Right before the car hit the magical 5 figures, I figure that I better get a power reading first as usually the magical 5 figures is where the green light for modding starts. Well at least for me.

Haha.
Hopefully the missus won't kill me.

So where else if not at GT Auto, a place I always frequent for dyno or car tuning purposes.

On a bright saturday morning, after sending the missus to work, I drop by GT Auto to have the car placed on the dyno machine.

It was after hooking up all the cables that Thomas from GT Auto realized that the ESP cannot be turned off in this car.

So as a solution, the dyno reading will be run in Link mode where both the axles will be placed on rollers like how a 4WD vehicle will be dynoed.

With both the axles safely placed on the rollers, the fun begins.

Due to my excitement in looking at the output of the car, I forgot to take more pictures of the dyno process in progress.

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!

Anyway, after all is done and dusted, my final results is as below.

Considering the stated factory output of the car as 160PS / 240NM, I am quite happy with the power that my stock car is putting out.

Wonders of running it hard since day one.

With this base reading in hand, the next stage can now earnestly start.

Discovering the "Altis"

After gotten the car for exactly 4 months, I've finally have the time and place for me to test out the car at the limits and getting to know its threshold.

Where else if not at this event that I've attended back in early March 2013.

Prior to this, off and on I do try to discover what is the limit I have but since it is on public road, those test are limited to the occasional corners like thoue found in Kerinchi and Penchala link.
Taking into account that it is a public road, those test are not really at the limit. More like 40% at most.

Curious to know more, the GAB Racing Speedfest.my Track Day & Time attack event allow me the place to find out more.

I am glad to say, I found out more about where my limits are and what are my reserved before things start to get hairy.
I get to know how much the ESP allows me to have fun before kicking in, how much and how hard I need to kick the pedal in order for the ABS to kicks in and more.

I can say that I am glad I decided to join after much consideration and I am certainly pleased with what I've discovered and also what improvement that needs to be done to tweak the car to my driving style.