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Old 12-29-2008, 08:39 PM   #11
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I knew a guy wit an acura rsx-s. he put a lot of money into a custom programmed chip that changed many things including rev limits.

he floated the valves, lost power, tried to reset it, took it to the dealer, bought a new one.

the shop mechanic said that according to the codes, he had bent a valve. he followed that with, there is no way to do that because the car wouldn't let you do it. also, it was 2 years old.

he didn't modify the new one he bought (at all) and it made a lasting impression with me.
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Old 01-02-2009, 03:13 PM   #12
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I knew a guy wit an acura rsx-s. he put a lot of money into a custom programmed chip that changed many things including rev limits.

he floated the valves, lost power, tried to reset it, took it to the dealer, bought a new one.

the shop mechanic said that according to the codes, he had bent a valve. he followed that with, there is no way to do that because the car wouldn't let you do it. also, it was 2 years old.

he didn't modify the new one he bought (at all) and it made a lasting impression with me.
Ouch bent valve. Yes, that stuff does work. Generally, beating on a car ends up costing you $$$.
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Old 01-02-2009, 06:28 PM   #13
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not to be completely ignorant but what is ROFL???

I assume (roll over freaking laughing) maybe, maybe not
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Old 01-02-2009, 06:45 PM   #14
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not to be completely ignorant but what is ROFL???

I assume (roll over freaking laughing) maybe, maybe not
Rolling On (the) Floor Laughing.
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Old 01-03-2009, 03:36 AM   #15
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Old 01-03-2009, 04:29 PM   #16
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close enough. not much of an acronym guy. I am learning though.

I'm not old (in my opinion), just never got into all of the short hand terms.

btw, I'm 29 (actually 29, not 29 several times over)
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I read on a forum once that the SG horsepower reading was dependent on the value you give for engine size. The person that posted that said he increased the value for engine size on his economy car to something like 8.0 liters and he was able to get 300+ horsepower to display.

Has anyone tried this? on that note, what the heck does inputting the engine size do for you anyways?
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the engine size is part of a calculation that it uses. I think it calculates it based on the a/f ratio and the engine size that you input and it also uses rpms as well.

I know there are probably more complicated equations that it uses than that but it really doesn't know how big your engine is or even how many cylinders there are. that is a big reason also for the correction percentage.

I have been tempted to try to up my displacement to see what the scangauge would read but it would mess up your mpg readings as well.
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I read on a forum once that the SG horsepower reading was dependent on the value you give for engine size. The person that posted that said he increased the value for engine size on his economy car to something like 8.0 liters and he was able to get 300+ horsepower to display.

Has anyone tried this? on that note, what the heck does inputting the engine size do for you anyways?
Isn't that in place of the old scan gauge injector size setting???
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