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Like, to own one.

There is a serious lack of dynometers in my area, so i'd like to look into changing that. Can anyone suggest a good all around dyno, and give me a ballpark figure about how much they are?

I need to do some cash flow analysis before i get too ahead of myself!

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I did a kitchen for a guy who was putting in a dyno in his personal shop. He had a good rationale to it. Provided your not depending on the dyno as your sole source of income, they aren't that expensive. Far less expensive than 1/2 the machinery in my shop.

If your able to field a few cars a week, you *could* pay it off in a short time. The key though, you can't have a dyno and expect to live off its income by itself.

On that same note, you may want to shop around, call the different places that make/rep dyno's, sometimes shops that try this go out of business and there are cheap(er/ish) dyno's to be had.

Personally, Superflo's dyno's are great. I've been REALLY impressed with the one I've been on. A mustang dyno is good too, ussualy the most common one out there.

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A mustang dyno is good too, ussualy the most common one out there.

Dyno-crap (aka dynojet) seems to be the most common round these parts - guess people like big whp numbers that mean nothing. :rolleyes:

Its very hard to make money just doing baseline - the real money is in tuning. My previous dyno guy couldn't afford the payments on his Mustang after a couple months just doing pulls for slackers like us.

I'd much rather put money into buying a lift than a dyno if you're just tooling around. I mean how many pulls are you going to do?

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I don't know. The only dyno in the area is a rip off based on prices that Slater was throwing around with respect to his cam timing disc thing.

I want one, it seems like a great tool, but i wanted to tune it with the help of a dyno but it's just too expensive.

So i wanted to look into leasing a shop and then selling time on it.

This wouldn't be for my use, it would be as a business. There is a pretty big tuner community in the area and no one to service baseline testing.

I'll have to look into it. But would $30,000US set me up with a decent respectable dyno. Does anyone make one that is mobile?

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