Mark, installed the chip this weekend and is it ever nice!
Whereas I would have described the car as “a bit lazy up to 4k, then snappy
above 4k” I would now call it “good and solid to 4k, and HOLD ON, VANOS is
kicking in to redline!” I’d be really interested in seeing a dyno comparison but
there’s got to be a fair bit more “oomph under the curve!” As noted by others,
the idle is very smooth (but I still only start in 1st, maybe 2nd pointing downhill 😉
and the engine seems to want to rev fairly easily. Whereas before
it seemed I had to push the gas pedal to make the car go, now it feels more like
moving the gas pedal forward lets the car do what it wants to do…i.e. rev and
go! Hard to put into exact words, but it now feels like I’m holding the reigns of a
horse that just wants to bolt. I’ll try and get a range of subjective “test-points”
but the overall impression is that the chip now makes the car feel like it looks!
Mark, if this is the beta-chip I’m sure the finished product will be worth every
penny you charge!