Dyno Time!
Spent an afternoon with Noah Stark of NSEW yesterday who was kind enough to work on the engine over 33 pulls. These were done straight after a baseline with a brand new out of box 206.
His dyno setup is pretty impressive, I observed that it was repeatable down to 0.001HP. Yes, that’s one thousandth of a HP. Noah told me it’s taken him 3000 pulls to develop the dyno setup and process to get to this level.
In the end we found about 0.4HP (from memory) from first run to 33rd. In summary we swapped the carb, tried different needle settings and corrected the lash. I think we got within .1 of the brand new one. I’ll have to check.
I think that deficit of 0.4 HP is pretty alright for having 30+ hours on it and who knows what kind of abuse on the streets 
(Oh, yeah all runs were on whatever oil I got with it too. Color: Black.)
Really cool, eye opening stuff. To be honest I didn’t think I was lacking for power when I raced last weekend, but I’ll take that 0.4HP because why not.
Just goes to show how close these engines are in a way. Sure, nobody wants to give up .4HP, but you can easily sap 2 or more with a bound up chassis. Hopefully I can do those 33 pulls some Justice in a few days 
Video to follow sometime in September.