Does this FX35 belong to anyone on the forum?

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Hey guys, I have been doing research and looking for a local Uprev tuner. One of the most knowledgeable tuners in the bay area is Z Car Garage and I stumbled across their blog. In their blog, they did some work to an FX35 including some exhaust work and a uprev tune. I just wanted to get some additional information from the car's owner about his experience with Z Car and what not.

Does anyone on the forum know who the owner might be and if they are on this forum? It's a gold colored 05 fx35 and the owner's name seems to be Dannie. Here is the link to the blog.

www.zcarblog.com/2013/12/22/performance/dannies-fx35.html

Also, on another note this particular car had a baseline dyno of 177hp/191tq which to me is low. Stock factory numbers are 280hp to the flywheel so that would equal to about a 37% drivetrain loss which is quite significant. I know there could be a number of variables such as the dyno setup, condition of the engine and etc but I am still amazed that there was that much loss of power.
 
it looks like they lowered the baseline in order to make it "look" like they gave it 30hp+ with their tuning (classic)... Even with some of those mods they should have gotten more hp out of it...however the motor did have 90k miles on it.
My old FX35 (which had a lot more bolt ons) made ~230awhp with a mail order technosquare tune... on a dynodynamics dyno which reads pretty true
 
The shop they went to uses a Mustang dyno apparently. ZCG is legit though. I wonder if the other shop did the dyno setup or something. Almost like they tuned it in the wrong gear and didn't get a 1:1 ratio. Those numbers are pitiful, like completely stock dyno run to only 5k pitiful.
 
The shop they went to uses a Mustang dyno apparently. ZCG is legit though. I wonder if the other shop did the dyno setup or something. Almost like they tuned it in the wrong gear and didn't get a 1:1 ratio. Those numbers are pitiful, like completely stock dyno run to only 5k pitiful.

yeah doesn't make much sense.
 
Thanks for your input guys. I will give ZCG a call when I am ready to tune and ask them for more info and I'll bring up the blog when I do.

I'm guessing no one knows who the owner of this car is.
 
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