Engine Dynamometer (Dyno) Room

We did none of this was here and we had a console here and we had a button on it and you run the engine and when you're ready to record, you push the button and it locks all the instruments. How cool. And then you said you you write them all down. And then when you get them all written down, you push the button and it releases them and then they're floating again. And then when you run the engine at full throttle and you you say you're going to hold it for 20 seconds, you count 20. the end of 20, you push the button, it unlocks everything. Huh. So that's like the evolution of data acquisition. That was the start of it. Yeah. Yeah. And then then finally we ended up today we ended up with this where you know we got cameras in on the engine so we don't have to have somebody in there watching to make sure something don't go on. See, we got cameras so when the engine's running, we can somebody can physically watch it. If something all of a sudden there's an oil leak or water leak or smoke starts coming, you can't see from here. When did you eventually get a a whole digital setup like this that would allow you to play back the pole and see every parameter? When did that actually happen? This happened probably uh say probably 2002 2003. Right in there is when we started getting all the fancy stuff. Interesting. In fact, all this all the v variations of the stuff that we had, they still have here. They're up in a balcony someplace. Nobody wants it because once we're done with it, we're going to the next step. So, who's wants, you know, who wants the first step? Here's here's the picture. It's cool. Yeah, it is. Here's a picture of a dyno with the only supercharged engine we ran on. The only one? Yeah. We had We had a customer that ran a bone alcohol car. Mhm. And we built the engine for it and we decided we're going to run it on a dyno. This just the supercharged alcohol 426 Chrysler. And that thing it made at 5,000 RPM it made 1,000 horsepower. it when you ran it, the room shook. So I no way am I going to run anymore. I don't want to blow my dyno up. Yeah. Yeah. So we ran the one and that was it. So even the old days with the funny cars and stuff, you never dynoed those things. No. No. I would cuz those even back then. Yeah. Cuz those engines even then I'm sure they were around 2500 3,000 horsepower. Yeah. There was no dyno in the world that could do it back then. No. It would never hold it. Yeah. Hm. That's quite interesting. Do you ever have any catastrophic…