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11-05-06, 08:55 PM
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Performance Chips - The Mother Thread
Are there any chips yet for the IS350? A chip that gives it more horsepower and improves the gas mileage? Will they screw the car up at all?
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Moderator Note - there are NO chips for ISx50 that do anything useful - this thread is here to bring all these threads into ONE place - any new threads will be merged into this one as well.
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11-06-06, 07:01 AM
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Chips on normally aspirated engines really tend to do very little for the money. If you want to chip a turbo you can get big gains. The cheapest gains offering measurable increases for a normally aspirated engines are generally intake and exahust. After that you get into hard parts which equal big $$$$$.
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Chips on normally aspirated engines really tend to do very little for the money. If you want to chip a turbo you can get big gains. The cheapest gains offering measurable increases for a normally aspirated engines are generally intake and exahust. After that you get into hard parts which equal big $$$$$.
And no there are no replacement ECU's for the IS. Toyota/ Lexus usually hardcodes their ECU's, the only available reflashing available right now that I know of is done by TOM'S of Japan. If you can decipher Japanese kanji then visit their site. I was told that you send them your ECU and in 8 weeks you get it back- reflashed w/ different fuel curves and optimizations.
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What are you basing this assumption on?
And no there are no replacement ECU's for the IS. Toyota/ Lexus usually hardcodes their ECU's, the only available reflashing available right now that I know of is done by TOM'S of Japan. If you can decipher Japanese kanji then visit their site. I was told that you send them your ECU and in 8 weeks you get it back- reflashed w/ different fuel curves and optimizations.
And no there are no replacement ECU's for the IS. Toyota/ Lexus usually hardcodes their ECU's, the only available reflashing available right now that I know of is done by TOM'S of Japan. If you can decipher Japanese kanji then visit their site. I was told that you send them your ECU and in 8 weeks you get it back- reflashed w/ different fuel curves and optimizations.
Sorry, no chip.
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This is my question...
Can you tune an IS350?
Like a friend of mine went and turned his Mustang GT after he did some upgrades and he is getting 30mpg on the interstate, and he does a far bit of hard romping.
Or is that what the chip is?? I really have no idea.
Can you tune an IS350?
Like a friend of mine went and turned his Mustang GT after he did some upgrades and he is getting 30mpg on the interstate, and he does a far bit of hard romping.
Or is that what the chip is?? I really have no idea.
