![]() ![]() ![]() You can flash the car, take it out and throw it in a drawer. If you use the Accessport, no you don't need it plugged into the OBD port at all. Its tempting, but its all marketing hype. They're priced much lower than the good tuner's for a reason. People would do well to search google on some of these chips and pedal max's to see what people really think of them and if they're even popular in the community at all. You could add a catless downpipe, intake, and a manual boost controller and you could have 40 more horsepower before having to mess with any engine parameters. ![]() The 90's were a great time for this kind of stuff because, emission standards were not anywhere what they are today, most cars just used MAF's and turbocharged engine management was not nearly as sophisticated. Use it with less than great gas (91 or lower) or without an intercooler and you just increase the chances of catastrophic engine failure. Ignition timing, AFR's, timing corrections, fuel pressure mapping, OAR and octane rating.none of those are adjusted and that's a recipe for disaster. They mask dumb parameters like pedal position and boost pressure and trick the ECU into increasing just those inputs. Even the more popular set it and forget it junk boxes that actually add power like the JMS PedalMax are a half-assed, Walmart, corner-cutting, backyard lobotomy for getting more power out of the modern engine management systems Ecoboosts use. ![]()
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