Acura TL performance chip
10-19-2015, 04:09 PM
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ever heard the "too good to be true" mantra..?
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10-19-2015, 10:53 PM
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What I wouldn't give to be 20 and naive again. And I'm not being sarcastic, OP.
That said, I might run four of these bad boys in tandem, for a top speed ~195. I'll be high-beaming F10 M5's on the Autobahn.
That said, I might run four of these bad boys in tandem, for a top speed ~195. I'll be high-beaming F10 M5's on the Autobahn.
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10-20-2015, 11:31 AM
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Hey OP. Performance chips are like diet pills, they are marketed as a miracle products for a very low price. First, ECU tweaking is made to measure. It's not universal, one chip fits all like in this case is first and only thing that matters and shows how much of a lie this is.
Second, claiming 50hp boost is the second major lie...50hp is a lot, i mean some turbos don't even give you that.
3rd ecu tuning costs tens if not hundreds of thousands to develop, so their selling price is usually a few hundred. I remember when i had my first car, lomg time ago, a 1992 civic si. Funnest car ever, i was 16, had no experience with cars and i'd beat the shit out of that car, burn the hell out of the tires, clutch, and everything else, but it was made like a tank. That car never broke, no matter how reckless i was, it always held on. Thats when i tried to chip the ecu. I remember having a P28 module and bought a mugen chip, i dont think i paid that chip much more than 40$, but it actually did make quite the difference. My RPM cutoff went from 6700 to above 8000, seemed like there was less lag when pressing the throttle, and the vtec kicked in sooner. It also disabled most of my sensors. And yet, that little beat up car survived.
Today, a chip that would do the same thing, you'd blow your engine in no time. There are too many moving parts to the computer, too many sensors, all the parts depend on other parts, this part is waiting from the data from that sensor, which sends that data to this sensor, too much is controlled by the computer and not a lot is left to the driver...its a well oiled machine.
Thats why, even if this chip did reduce fuel consumption, and increase hp, i'm not sure at the end of the line, you'd get true performance as you would destabilize the fine tuned balance. A real ecu mod is a complete reflash of the software. It remaps all the base settings of the sensors and tunes every sensor, every action that maximizes engine performance and even turns off some settings so the computer doesn't have as much control. Its expensive, sold by few seller and you can find tons of documentation that shows concrete results, dyno readings before and after, and tons of people can testify.
There are hundreds of chips on the market, only a handful actually work
Second, claiming 50hp boost is the second major lie...50hp is a lot, i mean some turbos don't even give you that.
3rd ecu tuning costs tens if not hundreds of thousands to develop, so their selling price is usually a few hundred. I remember when i had my first car, lomg time ago, a 1992 civic si. Funnest car ever, i was 16, had no experience with cars and i'd beat the shit out of that car, burn the hell out of the tires, clutch, and everything else, but it was made like a tank. That car never broke, no matter how reckless i was, it always held on. Thats when i tried to chip the ecu. I remember having a P28 module and bought a mugen chip, i dont think i paid that chip much more than 40$, but it actually did make quite the difference. My RPM cutoff went from 6700 to above 8000, seemed like there was less lag when pressing the throttle, and the vtec kicked in sooner. It also disabled most of my sensors. And yet, that little beat up car survived.
Today, a chip that would do the same thing, you'd blow your engine in no time. There are too many moving parts to the computer, too many sensors, all the parts depend on other parts, this part is waiting from the data from that sensor, which sends that data to this sensor, too much is controlled by the computer and not a lot is left to the driver...its a well oiled machine.
Thats why, even if this chip did reduce fuel consumption, and increase hp, i'm not sure at the end of the line, you'd get true performance as you would destabilize the fine tuned balance. A real ecu mod is a complete reflash of the software. It remaps all the base settings of the sensors and tunes every sensor, every action that maximizes engine performance and even turns off some settings so the computer doesn't have as much control. Its expensive, sold by few seller and you can find tons of documentation that shows concrete results, dyno readings before and after, and tons of people can testify.
There are hundreds of chips on the market, only a handful actually work
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