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Ok, I have a 2002 996TT with about 15,000 miles that I keep clean and it is not my every day driver due to the location that I work. I have had the car for three year ago and put a few goodies on it. Europipe 2 Loud, Forge Diverter Valves. I ordered the Softronic ECU Flash from Dan yesterday. Dan at Vivid was easy to talk with and made sure everything was covered.
The cable came today and I ran the software to send my original data to Softronic. One thing about the software it does not prompt you to send your name, email address, year, model, transmission type, fuel octane value, and it only asks for the upgrade. It is spelled out on the website instructions. Within an hour my updated flash file and my original file were sent to me. I thought that at 5:30pm on the west coast that I would get the file the next day.
I printed the check list and hooked up my battery charger. Place the laptop on a blanket on the top of the car with the charger connected to the laptop. I started down the check list. I disabled the virus protection and made sure it didn’t restart on its own. Stopped my windows auto update and ran the downloaded software.
All it takes is un-zipping the folder that was sent, double clicking the file in the new folder and the software started and took over.
I always felt that this 996TT had a lazy throttle compared to the previous normally aspirated Porsche’s. The car was not very peppy at low end and I thought that that was due to the weight etc.
When I first started the car I could tell that with just a blip of the throttle that something was different. The throttle felt more like a normally aspirated cars that I have owned in the past.
I decided to take it for a drive. Oh-My-God! The boost gage reads out higher numbers at lower rpm. It feels like the old Starwars Movie when the Millennium Falcon goes from the speed of sound to the speed of light. I made several lower speed runs to 110 mph and didn’t want to over do it… Just before I turned onto my residential street I turned the corner and dropped to 1st gear at about 10 mph. WOW! It now feels like the car lost a 1000 pounds. It see 1.0 bar sooner and at a lower level than ever before.
I considered a half dozen other software vendors and this had more future options, more HP than most, and was half the price of most. And a discount to boot!
Rating:  [5 of 5 Stars!] |
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