Quite a few people have been wondering about the performance of the 2016 GTR NISMO.
MC, MotorTrend and Topspeed have published lots of great detail on the 2015 Nismo.
And codeguy and a few others have shared their 2016 NISMO builds.
But to date, I don't know if anyone has posted a solid baseline dyno test for a stock 2016 NISMO w/ OEM tune.
Well, sorry it's taken me so long, but here it is.
Took the car to Anthony at FFTEC (Bay Area ) to run some baseline tests on their Mustang Dynamometer.
And these are the results:
Date: May 4, 2016
Run #1 Max Power: 497 HP, Max Torque: 420 lb-ft Boost: 15.2 psi
Run #2 Max Power: 505 HP, Max Torque: 426 lb-ft Boost: 15.2 psi
Configuration: Stock OEM, tests run in 4th gear, Fuel: 93 Octane
Conditions: 69 degrees F, 29.9 in Hg, 62% humidity, weather compensation factor: 1.0
(technically WCF would have been 1.03 for that day had we set it, so pretty close)
Chart: Baseline Dyno of 2016 GTR NISMO (stock, OEM tune) with 93 Octane
We thought it seemed low, but this is 100% OEM stock, no mods, no tuning, no remapping.
And comparing the numbers for the GT-R from MotorTrend, Edmunds, who are reporting stock tuning (not from tuners who remapped first), that's typically 425 - 440 HP. So this would be consistent, if Gross power = 545 and Dyno = 450 that's consistent with 600 HP / 505 HP
Looking at just a few OEM maps, we could quickly see they are tuning this to be "tame" (if you can call any GTR tame) and probably to keep their fleet averages down for emissions standards. For instance, Right away we could see that the wastegate duty cycle was set conservatively. It could be easily adjusted to increase boost above 15.2 psi to take advantage of the Nismo's bigger snails.
So it won't be hard at all to get some substantial gains over this performance level without doing any modifications.
We've got plans to come back to this soon, and do some more work, and will report our results.
MC, MotorTrend and Topspeed have published lots of great detail on the 2015 Nismo.
And codeguy and a few others have shared their 2016 NISMO builds.
But to date, I don't know if anyone has posted a solid baseline dyno test for a stock 2016 NISMO w/ OEM tune.
Well, sorry it's taken me so long, but here it is.
Took the car to Anthony at FFTEC (Bay Area ) to run some baseline tests on their Mustang Dynamometer.
And these are the results:
Date: May 4, 2016
Run #1 Max Power: 497 HP, Max Torque: 420 lb-ft Boost: 15.2 psi
Run #2 Max Power: 505 HP, Max Torque: 426 lb-ft Boost: 15.2 psi
Configuration: Stock OEM, tests run in 4th gear, Fuel: 93 Octane
Conditions: 69 degrees F, 29.9 in Hg, 62% humidity, weather compensation factor: 1.0
(technically WCF would have been 1.03 for that day had we set it, so pretty close)
Chart: Baseline Dyno of 2016 GTR NISMO (stock, OEM tune) with 93 Octane
We thought it seemed low, but this is 100% OEM stock, no mods, no tuning, no remapping.
And comparing the numbers for the GT-R from MotorTrend, Edmunds, who are reporting stock tuning (not from tuners who remapped first), that's typically 425 - 440 HP. So this would be consistent, if Gross power = 545 and Dyno = 450 that's consistent with 600 HP / 505 HP
Looking at just a few OEM maps, we could quickly see they are tuning this to be "tame" (if you can call any GTR tame) and probably to keep their fleet averages down for emissions standards. For instance, Right away we could see that the wastegate duty cycle was set conservatively. It could be easily adjusted to increase boost above 15.2 psi to take advantage of the Nismo's bigger snails.
So it won't be hard at all to get some substantial gains over this performance level without doing any modifications.
We've got plans to come back to this soon, and do some more work, and will report our results.