ECU Chiptuning to increase engine HP & torque

**lolo pepe** · December 3rd, 2006 12:21 AM

hey guys...check this out. it will supposedly give gas and CRDi engines additional power by chiptuning the engine control unit (ECU). it is now available in metro manila.

http://www.upsolute.com/eng/index.html

**lolo pepe** · December 8th, 2006 03:24 AM

i up ko lang...

marami na rin akong nabasa na ibat ibang brands sa internet tungkol sa ECU tuning. curious lang ako kasi dahil sa claims ng vendor/supplier/manufacturer na it will increase the engine horsepower by as much as 30 ps.

yung sa hyundai starex CRDi, it will increase daw yung ps from 140 to 170.

me nakasubok na ba ng ECU tuning, gas engine man o diesel?

**C190** · December 8th, 2006 08:02 AM

Originally Posted by lolo pepe

me nakasubok na ba ng ECU tuning, gas engine man o diesel?

sana subukan ng mga sta fe owners

kung may crdi ako try ko rin...........kaso medyo mabigat yung kit more or less 50k

**Picard** · December 8th, 2006 08:21 AM

Hindi ba inversely proportional ito sa fuel consumption?

**niky** · December 8th, 2006 01:20 PM

Originally Posted by Picard

Hindi ba inversely proportional ito sa fuel consumption?

Not always. You can increase turbo boost without sacrificing low rpm fuel economy.

But if you have more power, your fuel economy when you floor the pedal will be a bit worse.

How much is the local one? And will it be dyno-tuned? While there are lots of good, reliable and trustworthy chip-tuners, there are some that are nothing but OEM chips repackaged as aftermarket, with exactly the same tuning as stock.

**2Dmax** · December 9th, 2006 08:10 AM

ECU chips might give additional power but of course with a trade-off, like fuel economy and reliability. It's like law of supply and demand. Japanese/Korean/American engineers already pre-tuned your engine to mke it un efficiently with reliability. So for me, that kind of thing is a NO-NO..