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      09-30-2013, 11:27 PM   #171
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Originally Posted by CanAutM3 View Post
As swamp points out, estimating parasitic losses in the process will improve the precision of the result for both methods.
Not quite. If you have reliable dyno information (which anyone in the know will admit is pretty much a non-sequitur) losses are not needed. For my process, losses absolutely are required for the calculation. My calculation is almost entirely a-priori (no test data required).
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