Guest Powerchip Australia Pty Ltd Guests Posted 13/01/03 02:02 PM Share Posted 13/01/03 02:02 PM fordxr6turbo.com members,Some of you may have heard of our company before - Powerchip Australia - but for those who haven't - we are Australia's leading performance chip company, opening our doors in 1991, and selling automotive performance chips ever since.The XR6 Turbo presents a fantastic new opurtunity for a Powerchip upgrade, in the form of a re-mapping of the car's fueling and timing curves, and also a mild boost upgrade, which should produce very good power and torque gains, as well as improvements in driveability and throttle response. However, to develop such an upgrade, we are in need of a 'donor' or 'development' car.We are looking for an owner of a XR6 Turbo who is located in Melbourne, and is willing to let us use his car for the purposes of developing a chip for it. The development process includes analysis of the ECU (and the programs contained inside), modification of these programs, and some time spent driving the car to achieve the best possible gains. Anyone who is generous enough to lend us their car for the day would be entitled to the completed upgrade for free (once it is released to the public), as well as a loan car for the day.We are looking at doing development on the XR6 Turbo sometime next week (beginning 20th January), and would require the car the whole day. If anyone is interested, please send off an email to ryan@powerchipgroup.com with your contact details, and we will get back to you as promptly as possible.Also as a point to note, the Powerchip for the XR6 Turbo will be completely physically and electronically undetectable, so warranty issues are not a problem. If anyone has any other questions regarding the possibility of lending us your car, please direct them to the email address above.Kind Regards,Mathew KilhamPowerchip Australia Pty LtdAustralia's leading performance chip company!http://www.powerchipgroup.com** Please do not regard this post as spam, this was discussed with the forum administrator (Chris), and he has approved it **Note: This is open to fordxr6turbo.com members only and not guests of the forum Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/602-powerchip-and-the-xr6-turbo/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest esky Guests Posted 13/01/03 09:01 PM Share Posted 13/01/03 09:01 PM Looks like the race is on to see who cracks the XR6T first. Good luck with your venture.I'm more interested to see what the updated fuel, ignition and boost maps looks like on the dyno once everyone has come out with their chip/upgrade. After talking to a friend at Garrett, I suspect there is more than electronic stops to increased power. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/602-powerchip-and-the-xr6-turbo/#findComment-6038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJF077 The Noble Leader Administrator 4,786 Member For: 22y 6m 23d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Australia Posted 13/01/03 09:42 PM Share Posted 13/01/03 09:42 PM damn shame im not in melbourne Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/602-powerchip-and-the-xr6-turbo/#findComment-6041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Race Rubber Guests Posted 14/01/03 12:01 AM Share Posted 14/01/03 12:01 AM CJF077 said: damn shame im not in melbourne :banghead: Ahh yes but fortunately I am, Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/602-powerchip-and-the-xr6-turbo/#findComment-6056 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HOTXR6 Guests Posted 14/01/03 02:23 AM Share Posted 14/01/03 02:23 AM NOT HAPPY. Why are you not in Sydney. You would have had me in a heart beat. Oh well. Good luck and I look forward to hearing from you about the releaseHOTXR6 Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/602-powerchip-and-the-xr6-turbo/#findComment-6074 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mondie Firm Member Donating Members 2,924 Member For: 22y 6m 4d Location: Adelaide Hills Posted 14/01/03 04:02 AM Share Posted 14/01/03 04:02 AM l am talking with powerchip at the moment about using my car as the guinea pig.What do you all reckon of this?l have no experience with chipping cars. Anybody have past experiences they can share, improvments noticed, warranty issues, experience with Powerchip themselves etc. My main concern is maintaining warranty, any thoughts on this? Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/602-powerchip-and-the-xr6-turbo/#findComment-6087 Share on other sites More sharing options...
XR8Chic vrooom psshhht Member 340 Member For: 22y 6m 17d Gender: Female Location: Victoria Posted 14/01/03 04:08 AM Share Posted 14/01/03 04:08 AM It shouldnt really affect warranty... they are a plug in device... if you take it out before you take it to ford - they will not know!!Make sure you get before and after dyno print outs from an independant source. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/602-powerchip-and-the-xr6-turbo/#findComment-6089 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PSI40L Member 175 Member For: 22y 4m 18d Posted 14/01/03 04:14 AM Share Posted 14/01/03 04:14 AM Dont like the thought of anyonyone else driving my baby what we do, we do together. has anyone ever heard of the statement . Never lend your car and your misses . Then theres rhetorical what if ? question u have to deal with. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/602-powerchip-and-the-xr6-turbo/#findComment-6091 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HOTXR6 Guests Posted 14/01/03 07:19 AM Share Posted 14/01/03 07:19 AM Mondie,Suggest you check the fine print on the warranty issue. I chipped my VL Turbo and Expensive Daewoo freaked out when they found out during a service. They told me unless I remove the chip the warranty is void for the running gear. I do not know how they work these days but are they easily removed and put back in?HOTXR6 Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/602-powerchip-and-the-xr6-turbo/#findComment-6110 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mondie Firm Member Donating Members 2,924 Member For: 22y 6m 4d Location: Adelaide Hills Posted 14/01/03 09:27 AM Share Posted 14/01/03 09:27 AM Yeah, getting caught out is my concern.If they change the boost electronically (+2 psi) and the fuel mapping, l wonder if Ford could have some other kind of error checking built into the ECU brain that could check these figures and verify they are what they should be. If not, when Ford plug into the computer at your next service, a little electronic dobber could wave the flag and do you in. Possible do you think? And what about the manual box, is it gonna handle perhaps another 30-40kw, maybe even more? Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/602-powerchip-and-the-xr6-turbo/#findComment-6122 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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