[John S]

A few weeks ago I had the F.A.S.T system tuned on the Dyno. The HP numbers came in a lot lower then I was expecting. While driving the car the past couple of weeks (70 miles) I've noticed that it has a tendancy to backfire and pop during decel and coast, I originally thought that there may be too much enrichment but future tuning once the engine was broke in would correct that. The other day I opened the car up for a short burst and noticed a haze of smoke in the rear view and thought that I may have an oil leak spraying onto the exhaust.
I put the car up on the lift when I got home to check things out and found that the #5 plug wire was barely on. The boot was hung on the tip of the plug and prevented from falling off due to the wire laying against the header.
I pulled the wire off to inspect it and found that the silicone lube on the boot had cooked and asshen over pretty well, but the wire was not burned thanks to the insulator sleeve.
I cleaned the boot and termial and took the car out. What an immediate difference! It's like the engine completely woke up. The smoke haze which I think was just the unburned fuel going through the exhaust is gone as well as the backfiring and I am a much happier camper.

My question is this, in general terms does each cylinder contribute about the same amount of HP for the engines total? In my case the engine made 444.7hp and 531.8 ft-lbs torque running on 7 cylinders. Thats about 63hp per cylinder. Would I be close in estimating that getting the 8th cylinder to fire would add clost to 63Hp to the total bringing the potential hp up to close to 500HP? And how would torque be affected?

Sorry for the long post and thanks for the help.