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Old Jun 22, 2015 | 07:02 PM
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hello guys .what max power can give a baby board of collins .i hear 500 hp with t38 turbo and 83lb .did you ever seen that live ?
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Old Jun 22, 2015 | 07:09 PM
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Surely the chip can run any amount as long as the engine can breath with big enough ports, turbo, cams etc? Why would a board hold back power?
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Old Jun 22, 2015 | 07:17 PM
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Surely the chip can run any amount as long as the engine can breath with big enough ports, turbo, cams etc? Why would a board hold back power?
yes the cams must be wild and ports wide .but the prossesor of the l8 ecu is not the best as we know difficult works up 440 safe .so wha the baby board doing ?is like paralil ecu helps ?
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Old Jun 22, 2015 | 09:48 PM
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Originally Posted by sierrafun
yes the cams must be wild and ports wide .but the prossesor of the l8 ecu is not the best as we know difficult works up 440 safe .so wha the baby board doing ?is like paralil ecu helps ?
Whoever told you that was talking rubbish I'm afraid. The baby boards fitted by most tuners do nothing more than decrypt the encrypted eprom they fitted. It adds no functionality and has no effect on power levels. Ive mapped plenty of YB's Reving to 8200rpm with over 600BHP On a nice standard L8. And at 440bhp they certainly don't need wild cams or big ported heads as you have been told either. In fact, the standard head will do 500bhp on the right turbo.

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Old Jun 23, 2015 | 08:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Stu @ M Developments
Whoever told you that was talking rubbish I'm afraid. The baby boards fitted by most tuners do nothing more than decrypt the encrypted eprom they fitted. It adds no functionality and has no effect on power levels. Ive mapped plenty of YB's Reving to 8200rpm with over 600BHP On a nice standard L8. And at 440bhp they certainly don't need wild cams or big ported heads as you have been told either. In fact, the standard head will do 500bhp on the right turbo.
you need big turbo with many bar .maybe 2,5 bar to have 500 hp stadar head .l8 is safe for 600 hp isnt slow prosseror?
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Old Jun 23, 2015 | 05:31 PM
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There is still life in the old L8. The only down side is lack of genuine sensors to go with it hence why people are going for aftermarket ecu's.
I like how a cossie drives on a weber ecu its raw and very 80's just how it should be.
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An L8 ecu will quite happily do 10,000 rpm and 1000 bhp unlike the engines lol
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Old Jun 24, 2015 | 04:51 PM
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An L8 ecu will quite happily do 10,000 rpm and 1000 bhp unlike the engines lol
Lol hence why 2 of them power a F40 well a P8.

Didnt that jems engine rev to Honda rpm's
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