Newbie here. I've been reading lots of the old posts, but didn't see much mention of Powerchip. If I don't want to do the pulley thing, but still want some more go power, is the Powerchip worthwhile? Anybody running their software and what kind of results did you get from the upgrade?

 

My only experience with Powerchip was when they did my E430 in 2000.
After I demonstrated to them that my 0-62 mph acceleration time increased from a consistent 6.5 sec to equally consistent 7.1-7.2 sec, they reversed the chip tune-up and gave me a full refund.
I still would not let them touch any of my cars, never mind the hype on their website.

 

Get it done by RENNTech. I have no clue why I continue to promote their product, but I still feel it is the best quality out right now. You hear of very few people that have ECU issues with them and the others always have their issues. Most of it stems from MB taking such an aggressive stance about it lately.

 

Coz you love RENNtech jangy.

 

i'm not sure i would pay any of the tuners for a stand alone ecu flash unless it was to flash over mb's recall work. there's probably so little gain (if any) you'd feel cheated.

 

kleeman

 

no, renntech

 

I'm a Powerchip user, as a matter of fact, 4 out 5 of my MB's are reflashed by Powerchip, my ML63 will soon follow. I have nothing but positive experience with them, I've been working with Matt since last June and he has been very helpful to date. I've even let them borrow my E550's ECU to do R&D's with it, and they let me keep the beta program on my E550's ECU to see how the car is, so far so good, but I will have to get some datalogging done for them in order to get the program finalized for the new N/A 5.5L V8 engines. I know both Kleemann & Renntech are very reputable companies, and if Powerchip wasn't around, I'd have gone with either one, but so far, Powerchip gets my business not because they are better, but I don't want to pay extra for the brand.

 

Powerchip is the way to go for value and quality. I found them through evosport and both companies have (so far) been great to work with. They even answer the phone (thanks guys).

 

I have powerchip in my E55 and its excellent, all promised gains were there and the throttle response is incredible. I also have a powerchip on my 65 and the price was less than half of renntech for similar gains. No issues here.

 

I sugguest listening to the above 3 posts, as they have actually tried Powerchip software. (This includes one of the forum moderators)

Plus, with a 14-day money back guarantee there's really no way you can go wrong with Powerchip software. The other tuners mentioned above charge more than double for their software with gains the same or less than Powerchip.

Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

 

I forgot to mention that part of the lack of Powerchip mentions on the forum is due to the fact that Evosport combines Powerchip software with their top-notch pulley kits, which are referred to as their Evo1 and Evo2 packages. Many board members simply refer to the Evo packages instead of Powerchip.

 

I assume somebody has an independent before and after dyno with a Powerchip ECU upgrade (or any brand for that matter) only, to show it increases performance?
Remember the Sprint Booster makes the car seem faster just by remapping the throttle response.

 

Your wish is my command..

 

I'm still pretty fresh to the dyno reading biz, but it looks like the stock E55k has better numbers than both ECU-tuned models

 

He asked for INDEPENDENT dyno results. I think Powerchip has a dog in this fight . . . so personally, I wouldn't trust their own dyno test results which fail to even mention what competitor's software they're testing against. YMMV.

 

Not mentioning the competitors software is a matter of respect to that tuner. We are not here to disprove our competitors claims and prove them wrong, we're here to prove what we do and the gains our software provides.

On a side note, you don't have to trust anyone's word. Since we have a 14-day money back guarantee why not give it a shot yourself?

 

So if a person is not happy what happens? Does the ECU get reflashed with the stock setting?

 

Whenever we tune a vehicle we always back-up the customer's stock software. If you want to be returned to stock and redeem the 14-day money back guarantee such will be no problem at all and your stock software will be re-inserted.

 

Thank-you.

Which is which?
This was the same car, I assume, with the 3 different software packages loaded seqentially?

 

Does powerchip have a map for a ASP pullied E55??

 

+1

 

Just for clarification, does powerchip have the ability to modify the ECU on a newer E55 ('06?). I don't want to flash the car with an older version or to have Powerchip "undo" future MB flashes. I prefer they be able to re-do the Powerchip part. Let me know.

 

Powerchip does have the ability to tune any E55K. We base our changes on your stock software. This means if you have an 06 with updated software our tune will be based on that. You will never be given an older file or file other than what your car came with. Each file is created from your stock (baseline) software and adjusted from that point forward.

 

Yes, Powerchip does in fact have software for an ASP pullied E55K. We actually tuned one last week for a forum member and he is extremely satisfied with the results... As all customers are.