TRIPOINT 400ft/lbs torque

[falkofire]

it must be a type but on the site it says something about

Base horse power
98.2
Base Torque 208.7

Tri-Point Turbo Kit 8 PSI

Horse power 166.1
Torque 413


must be a typo right?

 

[herarety]

it doesn't say ft/lbs

 

[roswel]

conversion

it's probably in newton metres and not lb/ft.

 

[70]

This has been covered previously, do a search. They used a Clayton dyno which measures differently than a Dyno Jet Dyno.

 

[JasonTK]

Well, it may not say ft/lbs there, but it does say that the car gains over 200ft/lb of torque on the same page. I realize these numbers are not actually ft/lbs, but the site is misleading.

The car picked up 67 horsepower and over 200 foot pounds of torque at the wheels. This takes the stock horsepower of 140 up to 210 + range. Max HP was at 5200 RPM and Max torque was at 4000 RPM.

Tripoint

 

[cyomega]

1 Nm = .7376 ft/lb

413 Nm = 304.63 ft/lb

This would be consistent with the statement about gaining 200ft/lb tq.

 

[JasonTK]

1 Nm = .7376 ft/lb

413 Nm = 304.63 ft/lb

This would be consistent with the statement about gaining 200ft/lb tq.

Ok, well according to that conversion then the base torque was 153.93ft/lbs.

Therefore they would be claiming that they gained 200 ft/lbs more torque than the 153.93 ft/lbs base reading.

So, obviously since there are 204 n/m more torque, and only approx. 149 ft/lbs more torque, they must have meant to say "n/m" instead of "ft/lbs".

Right?

Right.

 

[cyomega]

<trip> <thud>

Coulda been a typo on their side. However, I have never seen a turbo that will throw that high a gain in torque without a similar gain in HP... after all, HP is derived from tq...

 

[JasonTK]

Well, yes.

That's exactly what it is, a typo on their part.

And like you say, even still that seems like a very high gain of torque compared to hp.

 

[70]

Tripoint swears up and down there is no typo and the numbers are accurate...

So, it must be the Clayton dyno, it measures differently than a dyno jet, which accounts for the wierd numbers.

It is horsepower and ft./lbs. of torque, not Nm...

 

[JasonTK]

Jebus... that's a crazy torque number then.

 

[MP3-Owner]

I called Mark(Owner) at Tri-point and asked him about the numbers and he said basicly their kit adds 70hp and 100lb-ft. of torque to the Protege.
So add those numbers to our stock numbers.

MP3...140hp + 70hp= 210hp
MP3...142lb-ft + 100lb-ft = 242lb-ft

ES...130hp + 70hp = 200hp
ES...135lb-ft + 100lb-ft = 235lb-ft

This is roughly what you should expect from Tri-point's kit.

He said they have an Injector Controller included with their kit which will allow you to adjust your fuel ratio by laptop if you wanted to run more boost. However he didn't recommend running anymore than the 8psi of boost that their kits are pre set at due to an overload on the drivetrain.

 

[mazdamp3_18]

turbo did a project p5 a cuple months ago and they used a clayton and they got really weird numbers.....

according to the numbers they lost about 1 hp to the wheels...

claton dynos are messed...