wtf!!!!!!!!!!

[SRQ Boxster]

My car is in fact an S. I don't know why the HP is indicating as low as they are. The car is quite healthy and I know it not actually "missing" the 45-50hp. I auto-X this car several times a year and have never finished out of the top 5. I've always giving more credit to the car as I dont dont consider my self that good of a driver. Here's a PIC from an earlier thread.

[shaman1204]

Quote:

"How did they adjust the ECU to run RoW spec? Are you still able to pass emissions test this way?"

Crap, I never thought about emissions. I wonder if there would be any issues with removing the cats come inspection time?

[mtch]

i wish you had not installed the headers util you got the dyno mystery straightened out. With a number so low, it hard to really say that the extra power is from the headers or from a correction to whatever caused your super low initial pull numbers.

i'm very interested in the header, by the way


as far as the price is concerned, i'm not surprised. my younger brother is a welder / fabricator for a company that makes custom trailers, and he makes headers frequently for people by copying (or at least approximating) designs of high end parts. he pays little or nothing for materials, and he used the shop for free. i've seen him sell headers for prices similar to these. i'd get him to fab some for me, but i can't get my hands on a decent model to copy.

[SRQ Boxster]

Ya, Dyno numbers surprised me more than anything. The guys at the shop ran one of their own cars prior to mine, an '02 S with a different style header than mine but it has the EVO intake, ECU tunning and a B&B muffler setup. HP was in the 210 range. I suspect it's just the type of Dyno or the way it calculates HP as my car runs super strong and has zero drivability issues. So far I love the headers and the perceived butt dyno increase.