Originally Posted by krooner
they're dynoing around 140-150hp.. with 18% drive train loss that's like 165-177.. which is still drastically below the 239 they have rated.. that's why i mentioned the break-in program in the ecu...
I know, but there is no break-in program in the ECU. Mazda claims their new hp numbers are within a 5% margin of error. They evidently took the average of 11 production cars. So, obviously they are taking numbers from the high side of that 5%.