Modified Tuner Shootout - Final Results

Third and fourth on the dyno was extremely close, with UMS's EVO just edging out GST's Impreza. Interestingly, GST's venerable L made more peak horsepower with a max reading of 669.387 while UMS's EVO VIII made 626.468, but UMS had its motor at full boost across its 4G63's best 3000-rpm range while the GST-stroked EJ25 wasn't quite at full boost for the first few hundred rpm of its best 3000 rpm. This meant that GST's power-under-the-curve total of 17,069.293 was 700 short of UMS's 17,769.185.

Jim Cozzolino wasn't far behind with his immaculate and daily driven Acura NSX, which produced a wonderfully melodic 593.863 whp at its peak and a power-under-the-curve total of 16,431.760 hp. Coz's NSX was followed by the dueling S2000s of AQ Motorsports and AFI Turbo, the stock-block AFI car making slightly more peak hp (508.931 to 500.701) but considerably more area-under-the-curve (15,082.754 hp to 14,138.041).

As expected, our only all-motor competitor, Sportcar Motion, ranked ninth in this event with a very respectable 273.967 whp (and total power of 7,152.690) while Tage Evanson in his supercharged and nitrous-enhanced K24 EG Civic was eighth with 9,841.041 total power and a peak reading of 346.712 whp.