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Old 07-28-2019, 11:39 AM
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Anyone used the RICA tuning? Eurosport Tuning has it on their site. I know these ECU are made in such a way that they are relatively tamper proof. Anyone used this tune? what was your experience?
 
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what model/year car do you have? The ECU's memory design vary. Not sure why you'd believe they are tamper proof unless you are talking about a 2020 Corvette :-) Some ECUs can simply be flashed, others need a helper chip, yet others have the memory chip replaced.
 
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what model/year car do you have? The ECU's memory design vary. Not sure why you'd believe they are tamper proof unless you are talking about a 2020 Corvette :-) Some ECUs can simply be flashed, others need a helper chip, yet others have the memory chip replaced.
2013 s60t5.
 
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newer models are fairly well tuned so the stage 1 uplift is probably in the 30 HP range - but it looks like the RICA tuning is soft loaded. I forgot to mention there's one other approach which is kits that alter the ECUs input signals to the ECU to fool it to produce more boost than the stock.
 
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Originally Posted by mt6127
newer models are fairly well tuned so the stage 1 uplift is probably in the 30 HP range - but it looks like the RICA tuning is soft loaded. I forgot to mention there's one other approach which is kits that alter the ECUs input signals to the ECU to fool it to produce more boost than the stock.

I would love a stage one from rica. That puts car at 280bhp. Plus a decent exhaust could push you a hair more towards 300 especially if you open up the restrictions in intake system. What about this boost adjustment. I have never run into that before? I was also thinking about swapping in a cheap used R exhaust manifold. But I couldn’t find a comparison on the two manifolds.
 
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