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PowerChip Installed!
Just purchased PowerChip for my E430. They overnight you a FedEx padded courier bag and prepaid label. You overnight them your ECU box. They change out the chip and overnight it back.
Just got the car back. We dropped the ECU box in, reconnected everything, and BOOM! she fired right up. I supposedly now have 299 hp and 317 ft. lbs. torque. Only drove the 5 miles home in light traffic, so cannot provide full report at this time. However, at first blush, it appears to pull much stronger and smoother in the mid-range. They say it takes 100 miles for car to "recalibrate" and "learn" new chip programming. I will post a complete evaluation after I drive it a while. VROOOOOOOOM!
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2000 E430 Sport (European Delivery) Brilliant Silver/Ash Leather Brabus Leather/Wood Sport Steering Wheel PowerChip Euro Front Bumper Strips, Debadged E55 "Carbon Fiber" Door Pillar Trim E55 Tail lights E55 AMG/Bilstein Shocks Eibach Springs, #1 Pads H & R Sway Bars Speed Yellow Calipers 18" x 8" SSR Integral Wheels 245/40ZR 18 Bridgestone Potenza RE960AS Tires 1986 Porsche 944 Turbo 88K miles |
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Where did you get you get the chip At? Good luck on your mod! Awsome!!
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I bought mine through Performance Products. They had a 10% off sale from retail. You can also buy them directly thru PowerChip. Wish I had bought from PP earlier, because they had them for $640. By the time I was ready to buy, they had raised the price. Retail is $840.
Car really gets on it from about 3000 rpm up. Can feel the additional torque more than anything. Seems smoother on acceleration. More details later.
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2000 E430 Sport (European Delivery) Brilliant Silver/Ash Leather Brabus Leather/Wood Sport Steering Wheel PowerChip Euro Front Bumper Strips, Debadged E55 "Carbon Fiber" Door Pillar Trim E55 Tail lights E55 AMG/Bilstein Shocks Eibach Springs, #1 Pads H & R Sway Bars Speed Yellow Calipers 18" x 8" SSR Integral Wheels 245/40ZR 18 Bridgestone Potenza RE960AS Tires 1986 Porsche 944 Turbo 88K miles |
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You got web site? thanks!!
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"Bemind ful of the living force" Master Jedi 83 300 CD Black on Black Sold, which i reget selling! 92 Acura Legend dying 06 Dodge Magnum R/T very fast!! |
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www.powerchipgroup.com
Been running the PC software for about 1.5 year now...good results, part throttle is much improved. However, 299 hp & 317 tq claim are peak numbers and bit optimistic, if I recall correctly I gain 13hp at the rollers with the PC 93 Gold. Richard
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2000 E430 Sport (European Delivery) Brilliant Silver/Ash Leather Brabus Leather/Wood Sport Steering Wheel PowerChip Euro Front Bumper Strips, Debadged E55 "Carbon Fiber" Door Pillar Trim E55 Tail lights E55 AMG/Bilstein Shocks Eibach Springs, #1 Pads H & R Sway Bars Speed Yellow Calipers 18" x 8" SSR Integral Wheels 245/40ZR 18 Bridgestone Potenza RE960AS Tires 1986 Porsche 944 Turbo 88K miles |
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I got one and it made the car run rich, almost messed up the cat. I took it out for smog test to get it passed, and the cat wasnt quite perfect so i left it out to prevent further damage. I think it needs to get more air to go with the extra fuel.
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Did you contact the guys at PowerChip about the problem? They have awesome customer service. Might just need to replace the chip.
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2000 E430 Sport (European Delivery) Brilliant Silver/Ash Leather Brabus Leather/Wood Sport Steering Wheel PowerChip Euro Front Bumper Strips, Debadged E55 "Carbon Fiber" Door Pillar Trim E55 Tail lights E55 AMG/Bilstein Shocks Eibach Springs, #1 Pads H & R Sway Bars Speed Yellow Calipers 18" x 8" SSR Integral Wheels 245/40ZR 18 Bridgestone Potenza RE960AS Tires 1986 Porsche 944 Turbo 88K miles |
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I'll see what they have to say. I got it like 2 years ago, and it did run better and faster at freeway speeds, got a whole lot better fuel economy??? but it felt more sluggish starting out. But just in case I dont have any problem porting my headers and a nice exhaust setup with nice throttle body or something if I have to. :p
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side note: me using 220 octane & U fill up with 86 octane Unfortunately, I'll be out of town this weekend I was really interested in checkin out Josh R's Vortech kit.
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Didn't even realize there's such a rating that high.. Out of town? Do your pimpin next week mang this is not the time! you've got a more important priority than your pimpin! Wait Josh has a vortech installed on his CLK? Tell me more about this rich. numbers? problems? How good is it? Is he already running it?
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Check ur PM @ MBWorld
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The powerchip guy said the higher octane is what burned my cat? I dunno, I thought that high octane is good for the converter. Maybe I'm missing something, but that sounds wrong to me?
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