HPS,
Your advice is well taken. BUT, we don't specialize in "mainstream" services whe...
HPS,
Your advice is well taken. BUT, we don't specialize in "mainstream" services where we have to compete with other companies for the volume of customers to sell our parts. We don't carry any standard applications, we don't throw out standard "kits" and tell the the public that "this kit produces X amount of horsepower and that's why you should buy it from us". Rather, we offer a more personalized service where we build cars, one client at a time. Maybe one day, when we go mainstream, we'll build parts, install them on project cars, and test them out and make performance claims, in an effort to compete with other companies to sell our products.
For now, it is more important to us that: 1.our clients are satisfied with their car AFTER we have finished our work, 2.that our work is tested (not for numbers) but for driveability, and 3.our work remains reliable and dependable for years after. These priorities far outweigh the need to prove the value of our services through numbers. And what our clients like most is that they get to test drive the car BEFORE we return it back them. If they are not completely satisfied with it, we bring it back into the facility to keep working. The fact is, most drivers don't know the difference between 10-15whp behind the wheel, and they are more concerned with the intangibles: increased throttle response, faster revs through the powerband, increased torque for high speed passing. These are the things that our clients are looking for in many instances, and most of the time there is no number on the dyno that will accurately denote this.
Still, we are serious tuners, and we live by the dyno for our fine tuning for the more extensive projects. In most instances we'll provide our findings to our clients on their specific car at the time we do our dyno tuning. However, since we don't feel the need to compete with other companies in selling our services, and we make no products to stand by(for now), we need no gimmicks in advertising false hp/tq gains for a general application because we have none. Everything we do remains custom spec, so horsepower and torque gains vary for each client, and there's simply no way around that.
Furthermore, this fact is the reason why you have seen this trend on 25 different vehicles in the last year. People go out thinking that if they buy an advertised product, install it themselves on the same vehicle, then they should see the same gain. The fact is, few people know the truth about the dyno. Dyno runs are NEVER the same. Run after run the same car will give different numbers, and different cars with the same specs will give completely different runs. Companies are smart: they only report the best run. I am a subscriber to three tuner magazines. Maybe 1 car out of the 25 I've seen featured are truly tuned. Aftermarket parts makers have fouled up stories of the dyno so much that they have people out there paying $400+ for a lightweight pulley kit, thinking its going to add 10hp to the wheels, or $600 for an aftermarket exhaust adding 30hp to the wheels (dyno proven). If BRI needs to start posting dyno charts to be taken seriously, we'd rather keep our integrity and focus more on gaining our respect from our clients.
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