0-60 Timings

[texasjohn]

Just put the phone on the armrest, mine has one of those belkin rubber skins so it 'grips' pretty well. :wink:

I forget which Dyno App I have, haven't used it for a while. I think the icon has a yellow car.

How do you get the graph shots from the phone to the PC? Bluetooth?

 

[Siftah]

sDrive 35i with DCT in sport mode. This was done when the car still fairly new so I kept the engine from revving more than 5k.
I was also watching the speedo trying not to get too fast and ended up feathering around 50-55mph.

I noticed the HP graph in mine is smoother than siftah's, I think that shows how awesome the DCT is.

Maybe I should go back to that, ehm private road now that the car has passed the break in period.

Interesting comparison! I think perhaps a few more members should er, you know, be invited to our private roads so they can join in the fun :roll:

 

[Siftah]

Just put the phone on the armrest, mine has one of those belkin rubber skins so it 'grips' pretty well. :wink:

Ahh - not sure how accurate that would be with the motion of the plane - you tend to have to "calibrate" the phone on a flat surface and I think it must be expecting only the suspensions flex, rather than the lifting of a plane?

I forget which Dyno App I have, haven't used it for a while. I think the icon has a yellow car.

I think you have pocket dyno pro then, I have pocket dyno and that has a white car (looks like an elise) icon - I'm pretty sure the pro version is yellow

If it's Pocket Dyno then it has traffic lights as the home screen and says "tap for quickstart or double tap for countdown"

How do you get the graph shots from the phone to the PC? Bluetooth?

You can save the graph as an image to your gallery and then either post to Flickr (as I did) or you can email, upload to mobile me, tweet it or something else The only downside with Dynolocious is that it doesn't seem to give you raw data - which seems a bit annoying as I'm a geek and I like data

 

[texasjohn]

Yes its pocket dyno thanks! That's the one, with the traffic lights...

Re: plane, it doesn't lift off til about 120-130 mph so I think it was reasonably ok til then? Anyway, just a bit of fun.

 

[Siftah]

Re: plane, it doesn't lift off til about 120-130 mph so I think it was reasonably ok til then? Anyway, just a bit of fun.

After 130mph everything is just "fast" anyway! haha

 

[tomTVR]

Car and driver magazine managed to get a 3.0i to sixty in 5.4 seconds, obviously this will have been a full-bore clutch munching effort that you would rarely do with your own car. I think it achieves these figures (better than its bhp/ton would suggest) due to being so over-tyred with 18" wheels, 255 rears really gets it off the line well.

 

[FastInCurves]

Nice time siftah. The 5.9 book times aren't that bad. I was actually just looking up how the Mustang GT and other cars compare. It turns out it has a 0-60 time of about 5.9 seconds as well. The Z28 Camaro beat it by .4-.5 seconds and comes in at about 5.4s. Dang, that's fast!

 

[Siftah]

Nice time siftah. The 5.9 book times aren't that bad. I was actually just looking up how the Mustang GT and other cars compare. It turns out it has a 0-60 time of about 5.9 seconds as well. The Z28 Camaro beat it by .4-.5 seconds and comes in at about 5.4s. Dang, that's fast!

It's weird, I must be getting older because the 0-60 doesn't bother me quite so much as it used to - I'm sure the car is capable of doing a 5.9 or below as my start was lousy, I didn't disable any of the traction control and the tyres and road conditions weren't great. That and I'm hardy Michael Schumacher

That's satisfaction enough for me that the cars capable, now I'll just enjoy that 6 cylinder song and blasting along open country roads in it

I shudder to think how many points my licence would have if things like Dynolocious had been available back when I had my first car at 18