Fluidic
07-26-2002, 02:52 AM
From the May 2002 issue of "Business 2.0"
650 Bucks for 50 Extra Horsepower? Hell, Sign Me Up!
Performance-obsessed car owners now have a way of coaxing extra juice out of their-engines without leaving their PC's. APR, an aftermarket auto-parts maker in Alabama, sells a customizable flash memory chip to replace a car's factory-installed chip -- which controls fuel injection, engine timing, and other functions. It lets drivers switch between the car's factory settings and a high-performance program that adds an extra 50 horsepower.
Additional settings, which drivers install through their PC's, include a "racing" option that squeezes yet another 25 hp from the engine (but requires 100-octane gas) and -- for the security-obsessed -- a "valet" setting that locks in a 40-mph speed limit when parking-lot attendants have the keys.
The company makes the $650 chips for Audis, Volkswagens, Porches and two other VW-owned brands (Seat and Skoda). -- Ian Mount
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Man I love dubs... and too think I was considering going Subaru... tisk-tisk :nut:
Peter
650 Bucks for 50 Extra Horsepower? Hell, Sign Me Up!
Performance-obsessed car owners now have a way of coaxing extra juice out of their-engines without leaving their PC's. APR, an aftermarket auto-parts maker in Alabama, sells a customizable flash memory chip to replace a car's factory-installed chip -- which controls fuel injection, engine timing, and other functions. It lets drivers switch between the car's factory settings and a high-performance program that adds an extra 50 horsepower.
Additional settings, which drivers install through their PC's, include a "racing" option that squeezes yet another 25 hp from the engine (but requires 100-octane gas) and -- for the security-obsessed -- a "valet" setting that locks in a 40-mph speed limit when parking-lot attendants have the keys.
The company makes the $650 chips for Audis, Volkswagens, Porches and two other VW-owned brands (Seat and Skoda). -- Ian Mount
___________________
Man I love dubs... and too think I was considering going Subaru... tisk-tisk :nut:
Peter