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2fast
11-25-2005, 06:24 PM
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Car-parts-accessories/BMW/Engines-drive-trains/auction-41436313.htm

Sounds to good to be true.
Any one seen this thing before?
Zeuk in Oz
11-25-2005, 06:41 PM
Sounds to good to be true.
You have probably answered your own question.
mattyb
11-25-2005, 07:32 PM
of course its true, and when u put it in you have turn to the left three times while tapping your shoe and say bahumbug 7 times in swahili while eating 2 cupcakes with pink icing, the pink icing gives an extra 10hp.
Blitzkrieg Bob
11-25-2005, 08:02 PM
It just changes one of the parameters for the ECU. (forget which air/fuel advance/retard ??)

But like all gizmos something else suffers. turn it to get low end power, high end suffers as well a fuel economy.
uscharalph
11-25-2005, 08:31 PM
http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motors/Car-parts-accessories/BMW/Engines-drive-trains/auction-41436313.htm

Sounds to good to be true.
Any one seen this thing before?
Not the oven knob again! LOL!!!
2fast
11-25-2005, 08:36 PM
Yip people will buy all sorts of crap.
Suckers!
Jay 535i
11-25-2005, 08:39 PM
Yip people will buy all sorts of crap.
Suckers!

Have you tried it? Yeah, I didn't think so, or you wouldn't underestimate the abilities of the knob. Man, I smoked an Enzo yesterday thanks to this thing. But you'll never know its power. It's sad, really.




Oh, by the way, you can have it. Five bucks.





:p
uscharalph
11-25-2005, 08:41 PM
Have you tried it? Yeah, I didn't think so, or you wouldn't underestimate the abilities of the knob. Man, I smoked an Enzo yesterday thanks to this thing. But you'll never know its power. It's sad, really.




Oh, by the way, you can have it. Five bucks.





:p
LOL!!!
mikell
11-25-2005, 09:53 PM
The hits just keep on coming - someone must be buying this garbage, or we wouldn't keep seeing it again and again. What I don't get is that whoever buys it has to be at least adept enough to get it installed - and anyone who knows enough to do that should also know it's such complete BS . . . I don't understand.
Jay 535i
11-26-2005, 11:24 AM
Where do you suppose they instruct you to hook it up?

What I don't get is that it claims only to add more fuel to the engine. To get more power, you need more fuel AND more air. You can only get more air by opening the throttle more. Otherwise, you're just making the mixture richer, which will result in LESS power.

No?
Torque
11-26-2005, 03:12 PM
I got one of those. If you were to drive my car, you would never be able to tell it's m20 powered.
2fast
11-26-2005, 07:22 PM
Group buy!! :p
Jay 535i
11-27-2005, 01:30 PM
Group buy!! :p

If enough people go in on it, maybe we can get them to make one that goes to 11.