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Old 06-26-2008, 07:30 PM   #1
2MANYCARS
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C63 Powerchip Reflash Review

Overall, I think it's alright, the power, smoothness, and pick up are definitely there, but there are a few problems, although Powerchip claimed they didn't touch the idling parameters, but the car idles drastically different. Keep in mind the shifter is in P for all scenarios, first up: cold start, when I first picked up the car, cold start was my most favorite part of the day because I could feel the raw power coming out from the pipes, the fantastic sound of the V8, it was the best way to start my days. After the flash, no more fantastic start up's, as a matter of fact, it'd gotten worse, the car would start at around 600 rpm, stay there for 5-10 seconds, then goes up to 8-900 rpm, as oppose to a normal car where it would start at higher rpm then drops slowly to its factory preset. Secondly, the car actually idles better with AC on, I mean not as high as with AC off, please help me understand this folks, don't AC draw power from engine? So when AC is switched on, the idling rpm should be higher than with AC turned off, correct? My Powerchip flashed C63 is the exact opposite, keep in mind this is what they called "revised" version of the software, so in other words, the ECU'd been flashed by them twice already. I hope Evosport or Powerchip representative would chimp in on this.
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