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400Eric · #**174** 06-27-2011, 07:47 AM

Well, first of all, I've been doing you all a disservice by referring to my dummy CTS mod as the dummy CTS mod when I should have been calling it my dummy ECT mod. (The CTS is the one that tells the cooling fans and temp gauge what the engine temp is while the ECT is the one that tells the ECU what the engine temp is.) While I'm confident that most of you still knew what I really meant, I still need to be more accurate, especially because some of the newer members of this board may not know the difference.

Well, the results this time were a wash. No gain. (No loss either.) I don't know if it's because the ECT that I used was actually from an M119 car (It is in fact the very same exact one that I used when I tried this mod on my M119. I thought they were the same!), or if it's because I couldn't put the dummy ECT in a location where it could stay as cool as I was able to do on the M119 (the ECT is on the back of the M103 while it is on the front of the M119), or if it was something else. Who knows. There is no doubt though that since this mod did work so well before (as documented in back to back testing at the track on my M119), that it would work well on this car too since, again, M103 CIS-E cars are easier to fool than M119 LH cars are. (If only I could figure out what the problem is.) I would like to have this mod as an option because I really do love to have that "plug and play" ability.
Regards, Eric