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Old Jul 29, 2009 | 10:27 PM
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Have you ever heard of VRP's ECU upgrade?

They sell it for $1,500 and they come to your place to upgrade it in your driveway. Interesting proposition but I've never heard of VRP before.
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Old Jul 29, 2009 | 10:28 PM
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VRP.....its been around for a while. they are a sponsor on this forum. i think the guy to contact in charge of VRP is vrus (he is usually in the W211 AMG forum).

i believe VRP uses PowerChip (PC) tuning software
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Old Jul 29, 2009 | 11:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Mr. Happy
They sell it for $1,500 and they come to your place to upgrade it in your driveway. Interesting proposition but I've never heard of VRP before.
Hey, where did you get that info? The price & them coming to you?
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Old Jul 29, 2009 | 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by jturkel
VRP.....its been around for a while. they are a sponsor on this forum. i think the guy to contact in charge of VRP is vrus (he is usually in the W211 AMG forum).

i believe VRP uses PowerChip (PC) tuning software
Used to - then Victor (vrus) stopped using Powerchip and started tuning "in-house" - there was a thread about it in the w211 AMG forum. Around the same time Vadim split from VRP and started FD.

To the OP - AFAIK, you'd probably be the first on MBW to pursue VRP's tuning for a M156 tune. If it were me, I'd probably go with Kleemann for several reasons, not the least of which is that it's the same dough... but if you do go VRP, please dyno pre- and post-tune and share the results.
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Old Jul 30, 2009 | 12:17 AM
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Used to - then Victor (vrus) stopped using Powerchip and started tuning "in-house" - there was a thread about it in the w211 AMG forum. Around the same time Vadim split from VRP and started FD.
ah....thanks for the correction!
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Hey, where did you get that info? The price & them coming to you?
I got in touch with one of their representatives in Canada.
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