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Helix 335i Traps a best of 113.1mph and best ET of 12.8
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11-04-2007, 08:00 PM | #23 |
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That is interesting. 35whp is huge for such a cheap liquid. That's like NOS. There was a recent thread on toluene as an octane booster. Kind of makes you wonder if such an additive was (secretly) used to produce some of these people's 335i 1/4 times?
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11-04-2007, 08:06 PM | #24 |
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well toluene as well as some other race fuels can run at a richer stoich air fuel ratio which means under power you can burn more fuel(extract more power) as more fuel is combusting. Toluene is also an active component in many of the race fuels sold if you know how to read a fuel spec sheet you can sometimes "guess" what the companies are adding if you look at the specific gravity of the fuel.
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11-04-2007, 08:10 PM | #25 | |
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11-04-2007, 08:15 PM | #26 |
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Yes. When I hear "rich" I habitually associate that with unburned fuel. But, in this case, "rich" means richer than normal for same clean burn.
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11-04-2007, 08:22 PM | #27 |
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Seems pretty conservative (which is good). I suspect we'll just need a group of dyno's and trap speeds from a few different cars to get a good feel for performance of this tune. As we all know there is a range in any model of car, and issues sometimes come up once 100 different cars are running an "off the shelf tune" that didn't present themselves in the first 20 applications. The VERY interesting thing is the price. If the nuts and bolts of the tune are as elegant as the Procede then you've really got a winner.
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11-05-2007, 06:19 AM | #28 |
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The times seem great guys! Great traps especially. Are you guys relying on the stock ecu for timing adjustments then or are you tuning it?
I am still very interested in this setup to say the least. |
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11-05-2007, 08:39 AM | #31 |
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11-05-2007, 01:53 PM | #33 |
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It is very risky to develop a new solution which is only a couple of $ cheaper than the next available piggyback, the PROcede dark. If Shiv would decide to load a more powerful map I would like to see how this turns out. Upgradeable to V2. The only way to diversify is to provide a better tune than Vishnu, which will be hard to achieve.
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11-05-2007, 02:01 PM | #34 | |
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I feel that Helix has a good following and great customer relationship. They don't need everyone to buy from them, but it would be nice. To have another option on the table only make the X35 aftermarket that much better. |
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11-05-2007, 05:53 PM | #35 | |
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one thing you learn in life... there is ALWAYS something better. I am not saying that this is better, I am just saying you cant be so closed minded to any future tunes. |
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11-05-2007, 06:02 PM | #36 | |
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Seems like this is a common attitude on this board...Vishnu can't do wrong...notwithstanding production problems, limp modes, etc. I just don't get it... |
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11-05-2007, 06:03 PM | #37 | |
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This market is still juvenille. Other companies will come out with packages, including turbo upgrades, which will change observations of the top tuners. |
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11-05-2007, 08:34 PM | #38 | |
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11-05-2007, 08:51 PM | #40 | |
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If a newcomer can provide V2.x power, smoothness and response (yet to be seen by me; still waiting ) at $500 less, the new market will shift. It happens all of the time. Someone is always the flavor of the day; but never forever. |
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11-06-2007, 01:26 AM | #43 |
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umm... Helix has built some of the best Mini's in the world and Vishnu has built some of the most unreliable Evo's in the world... i'm pretty sure in a few months time they will have it perfected, and i believe personally that they easily have the capability to one up the Procede... keep in mind they've been at this a matter of weeks where Vishnu has been in the game more than a year at this point.
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11-06-2007, 05:24 AM | #44 |
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currently we are bypassing a solenoid as the car runs smoothly, perfectly and CODE FREE in the current state. The attache does have a boost control map that we will activate if the current method starts giving us headaches. as far as tuner experience I have been in this game for a LOOOONG time going back to my first turbo car in 1987 a shelby charger glhs. we have been seriously tuning forced induction engine management for well over the last decade including AEM EMS(factory trained),Autronic, Motec,factory engine management systems. piggybacks from a basic AFC to the "standalone like" Attache and simple extra injection controllers such as paxtamap fuelers. we have tuned 100's of cars many of which were hard to do projects like the Helix Mini TurboKompressor. Generally speaking and people that know us from the Audi Realm is that we are usually way ahead of the curve(performance wise) when it comes to modifying a new platform achieving performance levels YEARS before the competition in many cases.
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