86 951 Driver

I didn't want this thread to be about stand alone's really because any of the standalone options are not for your newbie Turbo people.

Chris White

The Autothority actually has a ton of timing advance at off boost – over 40 degrees of advance. I believe they were trying to get the turbo to spool up faster with a very aggressive timing setting – in reality there are better ways to get a turbo up to speed.

Chris White

I won’t high jack your thread…but I do have to say that standalones can work quite well for ‘newbies’, if they really understand what they want to do with their cars. Most newbies buy chips, then a wastegate, then a MAF then a piggyback, then some better chips, then some larger injectors…and some more chips. By the time they have exhausted the original DME options they have spent more than a good stand alone system. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen the same scenario repeated.

All that being said – the Vitesse chips and his support have worked the best in customers cars I have worked on.

slap929

Thats what I was asking about, but as chris has said, not trying to hijack this. So..... what he said.

86 951 Driver

I could see where what Rouge Ant could be beneficial from a money standpoint since you can just retune for the new mods. If there was an easy way to learn how to tune I would say to hell with all these chips and just go with the option to tune yourself. It most likely will be a better way to do it.

CPR

There is.....Chris White with the TEC systems, or Dave McGrath with the Link systems, or Vic Pauer with the ViPEC systems.

piperporsche180944

Oh boy, Ill be banned if I open my mouth regarding chips.....

spanky

Not sure if I still am a newbie, I am still learing each day more and more as to what it takes to make these cars run. In the past I have had the Guru chips/ stage 2/ 18 psi maf with piggy back , Weltmeister chips, Stock chips, & Authorty chips, and as of last Friday I installed Russel Berry chips, Scivision maf, 3 bar F/Reg, Tial 38 WG set @ 15 PSI by Accuboost MBC, with the stock intake/ filter setup. Did 400 miles of road testing in the Santa Cruz mountains this past wkend and am very very happy, pulls hard and was easy ti install I have no idea what the HP gains were, The car behaves so smothly without any stumble what so ever. The best chip is most likely the one in your car right now up until you replace it with the next best one. At the time that I had each of the above in my car( except the stock chip) I thought they were the best. The cycle will never end. Thats what makes this so much fun. Buying new stuff and running it.

alxdgr8

I started with Authority Stage 2, switched to Guru (which was much better), but have since switched to Vitesse. Can't comment yet as the car isn't running, but I'm sure it's better. Will probably switch to standalone next year though.