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Originally Posted by DKM
I think I can agree with that. I think that the cars are pretty much the same after the flash has been done. I honestly think they were trying to "reel in" the power a little bit. Not to say, like you said, that these cars aren't fast, I just think the "ecu flash" somewhat castrates the car.
The cars are definately fast. I just think they could be faster with the correct tune.
I think its much like the whole viper cream puff issue. 1996-1999 Vipers were more stout then the 2000-2002 versions. The 96-99s had forged pistons and lumpy cam and so forth. The 2000-2002s had cast pistons and mellow cam, although both cars pretty much made the same power.
I know were have the same cars..just the "tune" is different. But basically its the same thing.
later,
dave
PS...i'm hungry, I could use some kabob.  I need to go get something to eat. |
...........in the 07 G55, MB got a 24HP increase just by modifying the ECU. It is the same car as the 05 and 06 G55 but the software in the ECU is different. Understandably MB is making a big deal about this HP increase and using it as a selling point to sell the 07 G55's. Well, any tuner can do it thereby negating MB's marketting talking points. You can buy an 05 G55 for $70K and pay $300 to get ECU tuned by one of the tuners instead of buying the 07 G55 for $104K. My point is that there is no question that MB is playing around with the ECU's themselves and would rather the tuners didn't know how to do it. What everyone needs to realize is that the ECU flash the dealers are doing is not germaine to the secondary air injection pump relay replacement. My own opinion is that that MB decided to make the AMGV8K's slower in anticipation of the AMG 63 series thinking that no one will notice.
............Here is the link to the info o the 07 G55.
http://www.mercedesbenzone.com/archi...68kW_500hp.htm
Ted