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Old 03-15-2008, 10:29 PM
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I'll post up more in the ECUtune Stage 1 thread when I get the emails from the performance shop...

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Just go ahead and post them here to, so we dont need to go hunting...
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Old 03-15-2008, 11:11 PM
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Indeed. This does make me really happy, though. Good to know I wasn't hallucinating the power.
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Old 03-16-2008, 01:14 AM
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i went from wanting a stage 1 to reading this thread, and not wanting one and then reading the numbers and now i will be buying one...
The posts were right, it's worth the $

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They look healthy. Thank you for sharing. It will still be nice to see the measured "before" figures versus the measured "after".

Just for comparison.

I just got back to Raleigh and still no email from the shop... I'll be calling them on Monday and having them email the 6 pulls to me while I am on the phone. I'll post them up as soon as I get them.

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Just go ahead and post them here to, so we dont need to go hunting...
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Indeed. This does make me really happy, though. Good to know I wasn't hallucinating the power.
Nope, the power is definitely there. There isn't a massive gain but there's enough to tell that something is different. I am only speaking for the last ~12 hours that it's been on my car. Apparently it is suppose to get better as the days pass and the ECU learns how to work with it's new "buddy"... For me, the most noticable thing is the smoothness. My car used to do all kinds of hesitations at low RPM hard acceleration. Now there is absolutly nothing. The torque is available right from about 2,000 and stays super flat all the way to about 6,000rpm before it starts to fall off... My runs (after the chip was installed) only went to 7,000 rpm. I told the operator not to take it to fuel cut because I had reservations about running an engine with 133k miles on it well into the "RED" on the tach, essentially where it's never been before, and it'll never go... There is so much low and midrange power now I can short shift it all day and be totally happy...

I just thought of something... NEVER had I taken my engine to the stock fuel cut, and today I did it 3 times!!!

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Old 03-16-2008, 07:54 AM
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It will be very interesting to see the stock vs. chip AFR. I'm glad to see that you got a noticeable improvement from the chip.
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Old 03-16-2008, 08:13 AM
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well im excited to see the results. are you going to run another test in a few weeks and see if the results are any different after the ECU has had time to "learn"? im really interested in seeing if over time there is a better gain and it would be cool to know how long it takes to peak supposing it does get better with time. although that would probably require going to the dyno more than a few times to get periodic readings. it seems i may be forking over the $ to get one of these. ill just have to wait and get the necessities done to her first. if the results seem that good then it seems like it might be worth it. ill just have to see what they look like and if you do end up doing a test after the "learn" period it would be interesting to see those too.
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Old 03-16-2008, 12:21 PM
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well im excited to see the results. are you going to run another test in a few weeks and see if the results are any different after the ECU has had time to "learn"? im really interested in seeing if over time there is a better gain and it would be cool to know how long it takes to peak supposing it does get better with time. although that would probably require going to the dyno more than a few times to get periodic readings. it seems i may be forking over the $ to get one of these. ill just have to wait and get the necessities done to her first. if the results seem that good then it seems like it might be worth it. ill just have to see what they look like and if you do end up doing a test after the "learn" period it would be interesting to see those too.
I don't have the $125 required to go to the Dyno every weekend... From here it is just going to be a guess on how much better it gets... The main thing I wanted to learn from going to the Dyno is if there was a recordable performance increase. There was, so my work is done. Yes I am curious as to what it will peak out at... I really want to break 200 wheel TQ personally, but I'm a college student and don't have the money to keep testing...

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Old 03-16-2008, 08:10 PM
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i definitely understand that! im sure someone will come along one of these days with the info though, just a matter of time.
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Old 03-16-2008, 08:27 PM
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i definitely understand that! im sure someone will come along one of these days with the info though, just a matter of time.
I'll get on the Dyno again sometime soon... Possibly this spring... By then the ECU should definitely be operating at it's full potential...

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Old 03-19-2008, 11:21 AM
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I'm glad to see someone has dyno'd their car and is sharing their results. Clear proof like this helps new comer's know who they should put their faith in and who they shouldn't trust. Whether claims of sugar pills and placebo are disingenuous or the result of the unfortunate combination of incompetence and arrogance I think it has proved important that the community give newcomers feedback like this which plainly exposes those who seek to missguide them.


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Old 03-19-2008, 11:26 AM
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If someone wants opinions, why not expect the good with the bad... If you are insinuating that 8whp and 11ft lbs of torque are going to be obviously noticeable, well there is nothing more to say about that.

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Old 03-19-2008, 11:41 AM
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If someone wants opinions, why not expect the good with the bad... If you are insinuating that 8whp and 11ft lbs of torque are going to be obviously noticeable, well there is nothing more to say about that.

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Old 03-19-2008, 12:47 PM
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Did the dyno runs ever get posted....?
I didn't see them....
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Old 03-19-2008, 04:47 PM
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Yeah, sorry bout that... I'm still trying to get the guys to email them up here... They say they've sent them a number of times already, but I haven't seen them... Worst case is that I'll be back down there the weekend of the 30th and I'll just bring a flash drive or a CD and burn them to it and bring them back with me...

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Old 03-19-2008, 06:54 PM
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Yeah, sorry bout that... I'm still trying to get the guys to email them up here... They say they've sent them a number of times already, but I haven't seen them... Worst case is that I'll be back down there the weekend of the 30th and I'll just bring a flash drive or a CD and burn them to it and bring them back with me...

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I am sorry to have to say this but, this directly illustrates the lack of reliability I have always expressed relative to "dyno" measurements. In this instance, particularly in respect of the sincerity and ability of operators.
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