Firstly, moderators, feel free to move this to the chat nonsense section (although there will be some mention of a mk5 golf) - just wanted to make sure you guys read this.
I purchased the iphone about the week ago; those of you who have one will know that you can now download a variety of applications onto the iphone, for a range of tasks. I was flicking through the applications yesterday and came across something very interesting.
The application is called “dynolicious.†Supposedly, it calculates a car’s max bhp, Gs, max power and torque, 0-60 times, 70-100, 0-100 etc, and also gives a graph for max torque/bhp - basically the same kind of values that you’d get from a rolling road. So, i thought, another waste of money wannabe application that doesn’t do what it says on the tin - so i downloaded it
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Here comes the mk5 stuff! I tried this today in my car to see what’s what. Apparently it uses the accelerometer function on the iphone to do all its calculations. So stopped at the traffic lights to a long road merging on to the motorway. Calibrated the software. Lights went green, started the software and gave the car the full beans. Worked through the gears on the dsg, flicking the paddles to 70mph. Came off the motorway, stopped on the side of the road and read the results as follows (baring in mind this software has no car database, so it has no idea about my car):
0-20 mph --> 2.33s
0-40mph --> 4.6s
0-60mph --> 6.0s
Max power --> 230bhp
1/4 mile run --> 13.68s
Still trying to figure out how to get peak torque figures, but what do you guys think? I was very impressed by the figures as they seem pretty accurate and similar to the kind of figures some of you have produced on 1/4 mile runs and rolling roads. I will try it again over the next few days, but as it stands it seems i’ve just spent £7.49 for a pretty accurate rolling road test
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