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Chip Upgrades - Advice required please

leesweeney

leesweeney

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I have decided to gently tweak the performance of my varioram 993 C2S. (partly prompted by this year's drive down to Le Mans following a mate in a spanking DB9 - my 3.6 litre 285hp very nearly kept up with his 6.0 litre V12 450hp, but not quite!) I like to keep my cars as standard as possible and have already succumbed to RSR's (sound great but look standard) and the porsche sound enhancing airbox (OK not standard but at least it's genuine porsche).

I therefore would like to upgrade the performance without changing the exhaust any further, messing about with performance cams or the like or doing anything else that is externally visible.

Kenny has suggested Ninemeister who do a live reprogramming of the engine map which visually affects nothing but releases a few more of Stuttgart's finest. At about £500 this seems a very good option. Keny has used them before with some impressive results (312bhp out of an otherwise completely standard 993 varioram).

Before I take the leap, does anyone else have any experience of this re-mapping by Ninemeister, either good or bad? Or indeed would anyone suggest some other modification as a better option remembering that originality and reliability are the watchwords.

Many thanks in anticipation of your usual flood of responses.

 
From knowledge of what certain generic chips can do, I'd strongly advise going the 9M route of a live re-map. The key point is that although all standard engines are built to the same specification, that's where the similarities end. Each engine has its own quirks, so the bespoke to your engine approach has to be best.

Regards
 
Thanks Oliver,

It is as I thought. This seems the route to go.

ORIGINAL: oliverjamesthomas

From knowledge of what certain generic chips can do, I'd strongly advise going the 9M route of a live re-map. The key point is that although all standard engines are built to the same specification, that's where the similarities end. Each engine has its own quirks, so the bespoke to your engine approach has to be best.

Regards
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I agree with Oliver here - generic chips IMO are a load of rubbish and a bespoke chip would be the way to go.

Now the other alternative would be the 9m cylinder head conversion + Motec, but there's another story..........
 
Cylinder head conversions fit in to the too extreme category for my liking. The live re-map seems to do the trick.

Thanks for the note.
 
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