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Old 09-18-2012, 04:51 AM   #1
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Its garbage. All it is is a resistor that fools the ECU into thinking the car is cold so it injects more fuel, supposedly giving more HP. It will probably do damage to the motor.
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Old 09-18-2012, 05:50 AM   #2
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Only a gain of 60 Hp ? They must mean per wheel.
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Old 09-18-2012, 06:04 AM   #3
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All I can say is save up and buy the hp from Porsche. As much as I like mods and individualism, it's a sweet treat to already have more power than I can legally use, I never want for more acceleration in my car, it's perfect.
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You don't get something for nothing, so a $70 chip might end up costing you dearly somewhere else.

I don't think the things that a $70 chip can damage are less than the price of a cataliytic converter or a trashed engine.

Don't bother with the chips that fool the ECU into doing stuff it does not want to do.

Get a proper remap of the curves to suit your mods.

Its always best to get a higher displacement engine that is designed to handle the additional stress, rather than take a smaller one and try to push it to the limits.

Sooner rather than later something is going to break.

If you want max HP, buy a IMS failed Boxster and put a 3.6l in it and then you will only need half the pedal travel so you can keep up with the car.

Here is the story of a 3.6l Boxster http://986forum.com/forums/303977-post1.html
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"Cough" That is a funny coincidence. I just offered the Brooklyn Bridge up for sale this week at exactly the same price.




PS. If it looks like steer manure, smells like steer manure, tastes like steer manure... it's steer manure.
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PS. If it looks like steer manure, smells like steer manure, tastes like steer manure... it's steer manure.

Tastes? Ugh.
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