beez
05-10-2003, 18:13
I had enjoyed APR program for about 10 months now. the program was not bad but the car was underpowered below 3000 rpm and then you would see the needle climbing up to 1 bar and a lot of power would come out up to about 5000 rpm where again boost and power would drop.
I decided to take up Revo on their free upgrade offer (needless to say there service was really good as mentioned in another topic). My main reasons was that I wanted to be able to upgrade through ODB in the future and also the REVO bandwagon seems to be doing much more R&R work than APR nowdays. Also fiddling with SPS3 on the various timings and settings seemed an interesting concept.
I was not expecting much difference from the APR software. Boy was I pleasantly suprised... I have now done 100 km....
the car is very different from before, first of all all the underpower below 3000 rpm has completely gone away, it felt something was not right with the above, thankfully this has now been addressed.
I am not sure whether there is any difference in maximum power since this will require the judgment of a dynometer. However, the car feels more homogenious when accelerating over the rpm range,and at the same time overboosting at around 1.4 bar adds this extra spark.
The car actually now feels much faster, 1st,2nd and 3rd gears load up very quickly and suddenly you start to run out of road also making it very difficult to read the values displayed on the boost gauge.
unfortunately again boost drops at around 5200 rpm to 0,9-0,8 bar. I wonder which is the limiting factor, the tiny intercooler or the small turbo?
in any case, congratulations to Revo, there are distinct differences from the APR software that make the car really feel faster. soon to be dynotested :)
:cheers:
I decided to take up Revo on their free upgrade offer (needless to say there service was really good as mentioned in another topic). My main reasons was that I wanted to be able to upgrade through ODB in the future and also the REVO bandwagon seems to be doing much more R&R work than APR nowdays. Also fiddling with SPS3 on the various timings and settings seemed an interesting concept.
I was not expecting much difference from the APR software. Boy was I pleasantly suprised... I have now done 100 km....
the car is very different from before, first of all all the underpower below 3000 rpm has completely gone away, it felt something was not right with the above, thankfully this has now been addressed.
I am not sure whether there is any difference in maximum power since this will require the judgment of a dynometer. However, the car feels more homogenious when accelerating over the rpm range,and at the same time overboosting at around 1.4 bar adds this extra spark.
The car actually now feels much faster, 1st,2nd and 3rd gears load up very quickly and suddenly you start to run out of road also making it very difficult to read the values displayed on the boost gauge.
unfortunately again boost drops at around 5200 rpm to 0,9-0,8 bar. I wonder which is the limiting factor, the tiny intercooler or the small turbo?
in any case, congratulations to Revo, there are distinct differences from the APR software that make the car really feel faster. soon to be dynotested :)
:cheers: