944S2MAX is here!

rberry951 · 10:25 PM

V5 which is now in the hands of the testers is being released as the final version. I'm waiting for some dyno numbers to come in but we feel we have a winner. If further data down the road dictates an opportunity to create yet more power from it in the next three months you'll receive a free upgrade.

It takes time to develop the best products, and the people who volunteer their cars and time to help out are my special heros. James, Bill, thank you both, you've been absolutely wonderful to work with. I feel so fortunate to find such good people.

All of my beta testers, James, Bill, Jesse, Brandon, Mark, Vic, you guys have served not only me, but the entire community. Without you product development would have taken months and months to try to secure loaner cars and dynos locally to perform the tasks you have performed. I don't know what else to say, I just can't express my appreciation enough.

Thank you.

Regards,
Russell

maddydaddy · 12-03-2006, 07:52 PM

Russ,

You're welcome! You made it a pretty easy process, and turned out a great chip at the same time. My wife's 2005 caravan is available if you want to try to soup that up! :-)

James
89 944 S2

Ford-o-phobic · 12-04-2006, 05:46 PM

What i don't understand is why you have made a chip for the S2, which there was only like 10,000 made and not for the regular N/A's. Especially...ahem...the early's.

rberry951 · 12-04-2006, 06:04 PM

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Originally posted by Ford-o-phobic
What i don't understand is why you have made a chip for the S2, which there was only like 10,000 made and not for the regular N/A's. Especially...ahem...the early's.

Working on chips for every Porsche that uses the Bosch Motronic. The timing of development has been dictated by data available, not market share. I did the 951 chips years ago, for my own 951 when I got sick of trying other chips and didn't like any. Rolled my own. Had no thought about selling them at that time. Sold car, life went on...

A few months ago a friend wanted my chip for his car, he had tried many in his street and track cars, his latest was something called Vitesse. I'd never heard that one since I'd been out of the game for a while. Latest hot thing when I had my 951 was welts, authority, and guru. So I gave him one, he tried it, and put his Vitesse in his drawer of other accumulated chips he'd tried. Now he has my chip in both cars, and his brother's track car. He suggested I sell them...

So that's how it all started, just this past June, in July I started putting them on Ebay, few people bought them, they loved them. So then they got mentioned on Rennlist, I go over there just to get beat up. These guys have been hammed, and scammed so much they hate anything new it seems. Too bad really. But a few heavy hitters in the market tried my product, were very impressed and decided to drop their own product for mine, like Lindsey Racing. And BOOM! It took off like a rocket. Now there's 951MAX chips in over 100 cars. In just 4 months.

So others came forth saying "but we want good chips for our cars too" Well, I didn't have any other cars to do development on. So jgp0rsche volunteered his to do the 944S development. That started a trend, and I started looking for other volunteers for other cars, just so happened the S2 was the next readily available volunteers.

As of today I have 2 more NA testers for 2.5L and two more for 2.7L. And just AS SOON as I get an early DME computer to hack up and build an adapter for, I'll do those.

I feel bad because I feel like the NA guys think I'm putting them last, I really am not, getting you the best product I can make for you is just as important as any other group. It's just the way it has moved along. So, I've put 968, 928, and 911 development all on hold until I finish the 944 series. You guys are my TOP priority right now. But development takes some time, I can't just throw together a chip and release it. If you all drove race cars and used only race gas I could have you one today. But you don't, and I use volunteers for development and I have to be gentle with their cars and take it in steps, sometimes backsteps. What ever it takes to give you the maximum performance and keep it within safe parameters so no one damages their engines.

I do see your point, and I know there are hundreds of thousands of NA cars produced as opposed to the few thousand other models, but my development right now requires volunteers and/or loaner cars, and I can only work with what is available to me.

Soon, within this month for the NA, early cars soon after I get an ECU to work with.

Eldorado · 12-04-2006, 06:20 PM

well if I could get my hands on an early chip from you at some point if you ever get around to producing it, I'd love to do a side by side by side comparison of stock/wilk/max chips

rberry951 · 12-04-2006, 06:48 PM

Hmmm, well any early cars that have already had some sort of adapter in place I should be able to make you a chip for it. But I would need a stock chip code to read from those cars as well.

Regards,
Russell

Eldorado · 12-04-2006, 06:55 PM

i've got the dual chip with the stock code built in... only, it's the stock code with the drop-shudder fix..

only problem is.. i cant remember if the adapter board i installed is a socket board, or if wilk soldered the chip right to the board..

from his website..
it looks like it's soldered right in..