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Old 03-31-2014, 07:05 PM   #893
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Originally Posted by shiv@vishnu View Post
After you flash your ecu, make sure you start the engine and let it idle for a minute until the revs drop to ~800rpm. Then you can start driving. If you start driving right away, you will be in a low power mode that disables VVT. The car will drive ok but will feel very anemic. You can confirm this condition by plugging in the OFT, going to the realtime data screen and looking at VVT intake and VVT exhaust values. One or both of them will be 0.
did not know that, no wonder it drives like total crap after reflash..
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