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An engine dyno would be nice in this situation, but I kind of have something close. . .
My grandfather(not the one with the Porsche) has more or less a private junkyard of cars. At least a hundred. Most of them are 60s models but there are some newer and some of them are my old cars(which I will stake a claim on the engine for this project).
He also has several generators rated for different amounts of power. one is 75KW and they are all not fully assembled as you would buy them. He has them in a bank of engine-driveshaft-generator so he can use a common fuel tank(In ground and massive like you find at your local Shell). My plan is to just mate the shaft of the old Taurus to the 75 and not gas it very hard at all for the tests since the danger zone is at very lean mixtures which the engine is only going to accomplish at low-rpm-low-fuel. Oh and then just measure the power output of the generator. It won't be an even match because its converting it to AC but I don't need an absolute reading. . .I just need the relative amount of power that the lean burn gets. So I know what the Taurus v8 produces at X(big) rpm, it produces x(little) AC electricity and the lean burn produces this percent less of x(little).
He is likely going to hate me because I don't really have time to do this either but since I don't have to take tests or study over the summer I can afford to sleep only a few minutes a night ^_^
Really its not about the power curve or the relative power though. As long as I can watch the DMM and see its producing an even power supply I know its working(no check engine lights on my non-existant gauge cluster). The test is for survivability to make sure this won't kill my B series, which is important. The Taurus V8. . .not so important.
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