Originally Posted by rb5371
thanks for your replys i went for a super chip in the end only problem is my ecu will not accept it ive been told that its my ecu.
i did take it to power today and at 1.3 over boost and holding 1.0 bar it made 278bhp and 283lbft
. I was very surprised and they were that it does not fuel cut at all has any one heard of one making that sort of power with out a chip?
Chips are available for ALL EEC4 ecu's, I think there are 3 TARE codes.
COSY
ANTI
and another one
The chip needs to be 'programmed to this code in order to work.
I have neve RR my car with no chip, but I have driven it, and it was very slow, also it kept cutting out because I could not turn the boost down that low so it wouldn't.
I think the problem is is that we are all obsessed with bhp, that means little in the way a car drives, handles and performs.
Unfortunately it is always the asked question....'how much poewer is this then' blah blah.
When mine was running std brakes and 287bhp, I did the Performance Ford Grudge match against a Large turbo stage 2 cossy
His was about 330 bhp I can't remember exactly, he had greens, hybrid t34 etc etc, (Billabong). The difference was not alot TBH.
I beat him by over 1/2 second 0-60
I beat him by a second 0-100 and 1/4 mile
He beat me top end by a few mph.
Midrange there was vertually NO difference in the 2 cars performance, although the big turbo one sounded so cool ripping up the straight at Bruntingthorpe, compared to my whistling one!!!
The reality is is that if you want accelleration, drivability and realiabilty upto 300bhp the ST one is the one.
If you want to go for big power then you must change the ECU(management), turbo and injectors.
The small turbo block is better and the throttle is bigger aswell.