It was exciting news. Gerald Williams of Mid-State Machine called and informed us he had secured a dyno for a day. It was located at the Statesville, North Carolina, shop owned by the legen-dary ...
The Heavy-Duty Chassis Dynamometer Emissions Laboratory is capable of handling vehicles ranging from pickup trucks to Class 8 trucks, buses and other heavy-duty vehicles, single or tandem axle drive ...
Work trucks have a special place in the pickup truck family tree: They’re practical tools designed for functional use. And probably the most significant defining characteristic of how well these tools ...
It's not often that we can gather a group such as this in the same place at the same time for chassis dyno testing, in fact this is the first time. So knowing full well that this story could open a ...
A fully loaded 18-wheeler can now roll at highway speed without leaving a building outside Chicago. Argonne National Laboratory, the U.S. Department of Energy research campus in Lemont, Illinois, has ...
STARKVILLE, Miss.—For two decades, the dynamometer at Mississippi State’s Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems has powered engine research and testing for consumer, industry and military applications ...
Tire engineers are quick to extol the virtues of testing new designs in the lab using calibrated test fixtures, including dynamometer wheels. Others argue that real world service conditions are the ...
The Advanced Power Systems Research Center (APSRC) operates 11 internal combustion engine test beds, featuring dynamometers ranging from five kilowatts to 745 kilowatts for powertrain research, along ...
Back in October, Motor Trend wrote that, during its dyno testing, a 2020 Chevrolet Corvette had made horsepower and torque numbers well above the rated 495 horsepower and 470 lb-ft. The publication ...
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