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Are there any side effects to tuning our engines?

Old 07-11-16, 10:19 AM
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Hey everyone, So I recently decided that I will be purchasing the OBD Ecu tune for my 06 IS350. However I am wondering now if the tune will have any negative side effects to the cars longevity?

As you know the IS350/250 is a very reliable platform and there are many members with well over 200k miles on theirs and still running strong. But since I know that in order to tune the car for more power and higher redline, you gotta mess with the factory tuning which I assume is the reason for the reliability of our engines. Do you guys think that by me getting a tune for my car (with 130k miles) with the 7200 redline I risk screwing up my car?

I wont be taking advantage of the car and bouncing of the redline all the time, I'll mainly be keeping it in automatic unless I'm doing a pull or something. Do you think It will be fine?

Edit: I won't ever be bouncing off the redline for that matter, I'm only getting the 7200 rpm tune so that I have a little more safe space for when I'm shifting in manual mode. Bouncing off the redline in any car sounds like your trying to blow it up lol.
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Old 07-12-16, 05:08 AM
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Based on the tuning that the folks at Lotus have done for the Evora line-up using the 2GR-FE (raising the redline to 7,200 RPM), our motor should be fine.

I put the motor with the tune under heavy abuse at the track a few months ago and so far nothing has fallen apart.
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