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Old Jan 6, 2006 | 01:12 AM
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I'm just curious if I can chip my 6. Surely they're on the market. If so, which direction should I go, and what results have you guys gotten out of it? Thanks for your input.
Old Jan 6, 2006 | 01:51 AM
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Screw the chips, most of them come with only one or two written tunes on them, and you can't retune them or reset a parimeter if you don't like a setting. Get a hand held tuner, you can do way more with that, and you'll be much happier. Just to let you know, if you get one PM me for some setting advice if you get a Diablo, and you'll get roughly 10hp out of your car, now if you take it to a local shop you'll be able to get 20+hp out of her.
Old Jan 6, 2006 | 09:10 AM
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Screw the chips, most of them come with only one or two written tunes on them, and you can't retune them or reset a parimeter if you don't like a setting. Get a hand held tuner, you can do way more with that, and you'll be much happier. Just to let you know, if you get one PM me for some setting advice if you get a Diablo, and you'll get roughly 10hp out of your car, now if you take it to a local shop you'll be able to get 20+hp out of her.
i dont know about 10, maybe 7 or 8, maybe 10 or 11 if a profesional does it.
Old Jan 6, 2006 | 10:23 AM
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maybe an 05+ GT/ can get close to 20 from a pro tuning it, but nothing else. them 05s are the hotness when it comes to responding to mods.
Old Jan 6, 2006 | 01:01 PM
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Sorry mustangman, but a professional will be able to get at least 15-20hp out of your engine with the right meters, but if they could upload an ugrade of some sort to allow them to fully remap your ecu, then you could see anywhere between 25-50hp, but this is a professional upgrade that only racers do, but who knows, maybe some shop could do it for an everydayer, but I highly doubt they would. Don't underestimate the power of modifying your ecu, your engine has a lot of power stock, but the stock ecu really hampers its performance abilities none the less when you start to do mods.
Old Jan 6, 2006 | 01:04 PM
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oh bull, jthorne. there's no way they're going to get 20-25RWHP out of a chip with a near stock N/A v6. they gave me the choice way back in the day when i got my gears. they'd custom burn a chip for me for the calibration and give me an extra 6 (yes, 6RWHP), but i'd have to run premium gas.
Old Jan 6, 2006 | 01:12 PM
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I never said a chip, I said a full ecu tune, like fully remaping your ecu, even a six has a nice deal of hidden power.
Old Jan 6, 2006 | 01:50 PM
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oh bull, jthorne. there's no way they're going to get 20-25RWHP out of a chip with a near stock N/A v6. they gave me the choice way back in the day when i got my gears. they'd custom burn a chip for me for the calibration and give me an extra 6 (yes, 6RWHP), but i'd have to run premium gas.
which now you have to do anyways with the blower right
Old Jan 6, 2006 | 02:20 PM
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yeah, which is fine by me. i'm getting over 100RWHP running the premium gas now. 100 > 6
Old Jan 6, 2006 | 07:34 PM
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yeah, which is fine by me. i'm getting over 100RWHP running the premium gas now. 100 > 6
100 more rwhp?



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