| and running for extended periods of time are the best way to tell if the car is tuned beyond its capacity - it wont last very long. :) I can't say by exact quantity what the actual use of the vehicles are that I have tuned. I know that several of them are pushed probably harder than I may push my own car, and they have been doing this for quite some time. Auto-X racing is really hard on the cars since they are run WOT for longer periods of time and in my tuning I try to simulate these conditions as best as possible. There have been several cars that I have tuned of which are used solely for racing. In those dyno sessions, I have made pulls where I literally wear out the dyno, LOL. I take the car through the gears at WOT up to the top of 4th, hit the dyno brake and let it spin down to about 20MPH, and then release the dyno brake and go WOT again for another round. This process takes about 30 seconds to do and the car gets pushed really hard. I do this to try and simulate an extreme condition so that when the car is put to use, it wont have issues with knock. They also get a thorough thrashing on the roads as well so I can verify myself that no isses are present in real-road conditions. I really try and make these tuning sessions as realistic as possible.
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