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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

I suppose another question to consider..... bearing in mind it's a 14 year old car is it typical there would be any power loss at all due to wear and age?

It's a dead cert that a few horses have escaped since it left the factory.

Thanks Andy..... how do these horses get loose? Is it to do with tiny clearances of the camshafts?

Mileage can also release a few extra horses.

[Webby the Bear]

Thanks Opti. What's the reasoning for it losing them? Just trying to get my head round what happens over time

[AndyRoid]

Thanks Opti. What's the reasoning for it losing them? Just trying to get my head round what happens over time

Wear & tear

[Webby the Bear]

So i'd guess that piston ring wear was the main reason... i.e. not allowing the compression that it did from new?

[martin42]

If you feed them more often they would stay around instead of leaving lol 

[Webby the Bear]

If you feed them more often they would stay around instead of leaving lol 

LOL oil or petrol? 

[Martin_1962]

Hi guys, thinking out loud again

I've tried to do a 0-60 test to prove my car is running at its original 0-60 time (thus proving its not down on power.

Have you ever tried doing this? its impossible lol

Is there any other way to prove if your engines down on power or not?

5.8 seconds.

Good time mate!

RIGHT. Just been on lunch and as I had to nip to the stores I decided to get the old girl up to temperature and go on the longest stretch of road I know, bring to a halt, then floor it lol

I still maintain that this is actually hard to do! The road was a long stretch that has big roundabouts at each end. I went round the roundabout a few times before it was clear 

Anyway, first test I did I saw 11-12 seconds. However I pussied out and didnt keep my foot hard down (I'm really quite scared of going fast lol)

Next time I kept my foot in but forgot to reset the stopwatch on the dash 

As they say...third time lucky...

Floored it and kept my foot in all the way to 60. Got 9.7 seconds AND that included the road starting on a slight incline!!!!

Exceptionally pleased and had some good fun finding out. Oh and saved some dough - dyno run is £90 an hour 

That sounds about right for the 2.6.

Using an AC 22, I managed 9.4seconds in my 2.6 Auto.

Tiny bit under 8

[Martin_1962]

Thanks Opti. What's the reasoning for it losing them? Just trying to get my head round what happens over time

Wear & tear

They also get looser

[cem_devecioglu]

Hi guys, thinking out loud again

I've tried to do a 0-60 test to prove my car is running at its original 0-60 time (thus proving its not down on power.

Have you ever tried doing this? its impossible lol

Is there  any other way to prove if your engines down on power or not?

anything more than 3 secs is down on power..

[omega3000]

What you need is a nice 3.0 MV6 , nice and tight engine with oodles of power anytime 

[Kevin Wood]

Hi guys, thinking out loud again

I've tried to do a 0-60 test to prove my car is running at its original 0-60 time (thus proving its not down on power.

Have you ever tried doing this? its impossible lol

Is there  any other way to prove if your engines down on power or not?

anything more than 3 secs is down on power..

The fact that we have a spread from 12 to "a bit under 8" for the same car, with a book figure of 9.5, shows how reliable an indicator a self-timed 0-60 is.

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Hi guys, thinking out loud again

I've tried to do a 0-60 test to prove my car is running at its original 0-60 time (thus proving its not down on power.

Have you ever tried doing this? its impossible lol

Is there  any other way to prove if your engines down on power or not?

anything more than 3 secs is down on power..

The fact that we have a spread from 12 to "a bit under 8" for the same car, with a book figure of 9.5, shows how reliable an indicator a self-timed 0-60 is.

My 9.4 second time is pretty close.

[Kevin Wood]

My 9.4 second time is pretty close.

Indeed. Either you have a very accurate speedo, a speedo with uncharacteristically little damping of the indication, an accurate stopwatch, an uncanny ability to multi-task and lightning quick reactions - or you were lucky.

I'll let you decide which.

[Webby the Bear]

To be fair the 11-12 seconds was me not driving it hard enough.... something I'm embarrassingly not used to doing. Once I kept my foot in it was spot on 

[TheBoy]

Most smartphone GPS are wholly inadequate for this. Probably find a stopwatch and speedo are more accurate (and thats not accurate anyway)