I’ll be honest with you...... half the dyno shops I’ve been to or seen were overpriced and underperformed performance wise. Now I have full confidence that I could take my bike to somebody like you and get it done right. But your a 10 hour drive away. Most people don’t ride their street bikes to 80% of its capabilities let alone 100%. So if I’m just looking for my bike to run smooth and strong and really don’t have the knowledge to distinguish a bike @ 80% capacity vs 100 this isn’t a bad option. Opposed to loading it up and trailering it hours away or paying some local hack $500+ to load a canned tune and change a few cells
So I guess I can ASSume that the other half of the dyno shops you have seen were honest and fair. I don't know how any bike shop can spend up to $40K on a dyno and not be very serious about it. The reputation that
POWERHOUSE has for dyno tuning is everything to us. We have done so much dyno tuning here in the past 18 years that I actually had to replace the dyno roller - and we are the only ones that have had to do that, according to Dynojet. We have O2 sensors on hand and the proper gas to test them, which is done daily. The accuracy and calibration of our dyno is more important than any other equipment we have in the shop.
As far as you distinguishing 80% from 100%, I will say this- a good tuner will tune the entire fuel map from 2% throttle to 100%, from 1,000 rpm to redline. And although our customers like the extra rear wheel hp they are getting, I receive more compliments on throttle response, mid range, steady state and transitioning. It is definitely not all about what the bike does at full throttle only!