an extra 45bhp for about €10?

smash

Anyone think this would work?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/45BHP-VARIPOWER-Mitsubishi-Shogun-3000GT-GTO-FTO_W0QQitemZ110118476021QQihZ001QQcategoryZ72205QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

ZiabR

Its looks like a Dunnes Stores special offer. Not sure i believe it.

peasant

Buy it !

That's a really good price for a nice, shiny knob with a scale on it.

You'll find use for it somewhere

Seth Brundle

Isn't it very foolish of car manufacturers not to install these yokes given the (guarranteed?) horsepower gains?
:rolleyes:

maidhc

peasant wrote:

You'll find use for it somewhere

A cooker knob?

peterk19

i wonder if i can get one to go to 11

Seth Brundle

It might but it still will do sweet FA for your car - in fact it may even damage your car at any number !

smash

haha, I know it's really cheap looking and would probably blow up your engine or screw up your ecu. Just wondering if any of these gadgets actually work... I haven't found 1 on ebay that would actually do the job

Alun

Does it come with a free bottle of snake-oil ?

mloc123

Oooh a variable resistor, at lest they are trying more these days. Used to be just a normal resistor that they would sell for £10.

gucci

pfffft.....these things are for idiots, im putting a flux capacitor into my car, see you losers later

http://www.monkeyrivertown.com/brains.php?ART=641

ZiabR

gucci wrote:

pfffft.....these things are for idiots, im putting a flux capacitor into my car, see you losers later

http://www.monkeyrivertown.com/brains.php?ART=641

LOL

tuxy

I like this one from the same seller

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110105413313

It says "RACE MODE" on it

How does this seller have such high feedback from selling this crap?

Stark

tuxy wrote:

How does this seller have such high feedback from selling this crap?

"Enter your feedback for this seller here:"
"Bleedin' deadly mate! Makes me car dead rapid yeah!"

astraboy

If it sounds too good to be true then it usually is. Especially on that scam artists haven known as ebay. To remap your ECU you need to take it to a professional tuner, have the car rolling roaded etc and have the ECU set up. This costs about 800+ depending on if you are using the standard ECU or putting in an aftermarket one. Why risk putting a piece of crap like that on your car. It would give about as much of a power gain as go faster stripes I'd say:D . 10BHP at least!:)

Hotwheels

No, didn't buy one O them, but I did get an ashtray for my motorbike, a self cleaning one at that!

Stuff like that is comical..messing with the ECU etc is best left to experts...and even they get it wrong.....

must learn how to speil proprely

FX Meister

I bought ten of them and they work properley. At furst I cunected them in parallel but ended up with only 4.5bhp extra. Den I connected dem up in series and got extra 450bhp. PHAKT

Quint

tuxy wrote:

I like this one from the same seller

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110105413313

It says "RACE MODE" on it

"This kit changes the focus of your engine from economy to exhilarating performance!"

Wow! I wonder if anyone told Ferrari and Michael Schumacher about this? Could have made all the difference in his last season

colly10

It says in the add - "same gains as full remap". The remap is tuned to your specific engine. If they talk **** in the add then the product is obviously rubbish

drdre

FX Meister wrote:

I bought ten of them and they work properley. At furst I cunected them in parallel but ended up with only 4.5bhp extra. Den I connected dem up in series and got extra 450bhp. PHAKT

Really good,did your engine blow up yet

legs11

all it needs is a flux capacitor hooked up to it...........

legs11

100% blown up engine guranteed.........;)

Rowley Birkin QC

I believe this replaces the manufacturers own fillangee with an aftermarket one to increase power, the left one I think.

Our man in Havana

PMSL!

This is too much!

littlejukka

you people are do damn cynical. let the OP supe his ride. he'll be the massivest.

then when you get used to the power add a bunch of these ( http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110118475995 ) badboys to the roof. they create a vortex, not dissimalar to the effects of this flux capacitor people are recommending. you'll be at your destination before you even start the engine and you'll look well good doing it.

smash

I aint gonna supe it.... I asked if any of this crap ever works? There's no way I'd drill a cooker dial to my dash!

whippet

I can't wait to see a bucket civic with them vortex yokes on it !! I will p1ss myself !!!

I wonder if I got a few of them on the back of my fottie jersey could I transfer myself from a lumbering centre half to a lightning fast striker !!

I can't believe that the deisgners of porshes, lambos and zondas have over looked this piece of spaceage design !!

TychoCaine

They work by splicing a variable resistor into the lambda sensor in the exhaust manifold that tells the ECU if there's too much or too little petrol in the mix. It tricks the ECU into thinking it's running too lean so it sends more fuel than it needs to into the engine and making it run overly rich.

This is good if you have your foot to the floor, but when the engine is idling or being run lightly then it'll cause catastrophically high fuel consumption, high engine temps and possible cat damage with long term use.

Borzoi

peasant wrote:

Buy it !

That's a really good price for a nice, shiny knob with a scale on it.

Pfft, the scale only goes up to 10

http://spinaltapfan.com/atozed/TAP00160.HTM

alias no.9

For the doubters out there, you can indeed get 45bhp for £10.

5500

alias no.9 wrote:

For the doubters out there, you can indeed get 45bhp for £10.

I met a guy recently with one of these "chips" in a 98 ford escort.He was convinced he got extra power from 4k with it there was no talking to him at all.

That cooker knob is a good one tho,i doubt it'l be long before they pop up in the markets and you see people turning there knobs taking off from traffic lights!