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Old 11-12-2011, 12:46 PM   #89
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Originally Posted by subatoy View Post
if you use something like Cobb tunning's accesport you basically plug in this little controller that looks like a gameboy and upload new maps to the car. If you do this a stage 1 map will give you like 15WHP in a WRX without doing ANYTHING to the car but thats because of the turbo, an NA motor is harder to get power like this.

look it up on their website.
Oh I think I remember hearing something about this now. I think it was that BMW locked their cars software and that if you bring it into a shop and have them mess with the software you can squeeze more horsepower. Wow so Toyota is giving the car to us unlocked? That's pretty cool.
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