Well, it's been 3 full days, and every day I drive it, things get faster and more responsive. Last night I took a trip out to the new house, and I really opened it up on those country roads. As I said before, it is definitely struggling less then it was before, especially at the low end, but when you hit 2000 RPMs, man that thing really goes, especially when you are already rolling in 2nd or 3rd gear.

I'm still amazed that after you hit 4500 to 5000 RPMs it runs so smooth.

Here is how I KNOW it's not in my head:

My wife, who knows absolutely nothing about cars other then what I have taught her, can tell the differences the same as I can. She even made a comment to me last night about how smooth and quiet it is. I have drivin 250 miles so far with the new tune, on 93 octane, and the highway driving is just better. Now, everybody is different, so I don't know if you would call the difference Dramatic, BUT, when you consider the Before and After results, I really think there is a big difference now that I have been driving it more, and for someone (my wife) that knows nothing about the stuff to tell me how smooth and quiet the engine is now, there is obviously a difference. Lane changing is sure easier. I don't even want to take it out of 4th anymore because I actually get some good lane-changing acceleration staying in 4th. If I get past 3k rpms, I shift to 5th, but I keep it there in case I need some torque. Before, It really didn't matter too much It honestly has become more apparent now that I have driven more, but I would say the performance has increased about 25% overall then it was on Saturday when I first installed the PCM. I'm very impressed to be honest, but then again I don't know as much technical info as ChevyHighPerformance, Linus and Ghostrider do (OK and MAYBE Dennis )

I was able to get to 60 yesterday in approx 11 seconds. THAT is pretty damn good for a H3. Before, once I got to 5000 RPMs the thing would just feel like it would fall apart, as I said before, but now, I hit the 5K rpm mark, and it's really smooth, and honestly dangerously tempting. I think I hit redline once yesterday, and that was because I didn't even realize it the thing was so smooth, but I don't remember what gear I was in. I think it was 2nd.

Now, I have another one of my infamous questions for all you gearheads. I had a 95 Camaro that I would redline often, and never had problems. I don't drive hard, but have been just to test out the new setup obviously. I'm not going to blow anything or break anything if I hit 6000 or 6500 rpms every now and then will I? I'm assuming the engine can handle it, but I don't want to push it.

And as Alvin told me "It's not a sports car" and I know that but man when you have a H3 stick that gets faster and faster every day, you really start having flashbacks to your sports car days

 

Thank you Alvin, trust me when I say that it is on my 'to do' list.

I used to drive my TT fairly hard, and that car was modified just a weeeee bit. The car ran extremely hard for what it had (APR 93 octane chip & exhaust and a couple other tricks of the 1.8T trade. should have had ~240hp, but it ran with and sometimes out ran my friends 286hp 6 speed G35 coupe). Also I used to drive a good bit faster than I do today (for obvious reasons I suppose). The car got into its rhythem at around 84-90 mph (meters per hour, of course) and really seemed to be the most comfortable at that speed, but that was also about 3750-3800rpm. I also had it reprogrammed to ignition out at 7000rpm instead of 6500, an engine speed that the car frequented rather often and everything held together great for me. I know two different engines and all, but I figured that it would ease your worries a bit

 

That's cool. I used to love the TT's, but they haven't really changed them at all over the years, so they kinda got boring after the 350Z came out. Do they even sell the TT anymore?

Thanks for giving me reason to push my little I5 harder

 

yeah, they still sell the TT, they just released the new model a couple months back, I'm not sure when they are hitting the showrooms

link: http://seriouswheels.com/top-2007-Audi-TT.htm

 

That is sweet. I love the redesign. Do they have a convertible version of the new one?

 

So, now that I have driven it hard and tested all the speed improvements out, I filled up this morning and started driving normal again. Now that I have more power, I don't have to give it as much gas as I used to. I noticed that right away. I can keep it in higher gears and not worry about not having the power to accelerate.

That being said, here are my results so far with my drive to work:



That needle has barely moved. We'll see how the rest goes. I've seen this sneaky needle before. It can be devious [:@]

 

1st - We've already had a H2 come in that we had to replace the mass airflow sensor ($250) because the K&N filter collapsed and the oil was sucked out of it, shorting out the MAS.
2nd - Pesonally, and according to a few of the techs I'vs spoken with, performance plugs are just a waste of money. You'll get just as good detonation from a regular spark plug.

 

umm? what are you talking about? We are talking about custom tuning here not filters or spark plugs.

 

 

Some one obviously had over oiled the filter or put it back on wet after cleaning it...The filter was not at fault.