Porsche 997 Turbo Flash from Norway

VR Tuned ECU Flashing is used worldwide because of the convenience to read and write your performance tuning via the OBDII port as seen here.  One of the most popular ECU flashes is for the Porsche 997.1 Turbo.  This customer in Norway wanted to take full control of his Porsche’s potential so he added a VR Tuned ECU tune.  The 997 Turbo comes stock with 480 horsepower to the crank.  When flashed, it jumps to a very powerful 615 horsepower!  How come this is not like this from the factory?  Porsche has to meet certain regulations for fuel economy, performance, and also have a car built for the everyday driver.  Doing a performance ECU tune does not harm the 3.6L engine at all.  In fact these engines are plenty strong to 800 horsepower!  Tuning the 997TT has changes done to the vehicles maps that retain the sport mode while giving a blast of extra boost.  Reaching your cars full potential is usually done with a high flow exhaust, air filter, and 93 octane gas.  The more the air can flow free without restriction, the happier the Turbo is.  See our power proven dyno sheet and customer review video on the Porsche 997 Turbo Flash Product Here.



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Porsche 997 Turbo Flash from Norway

Porsche 991.2 Carrera S 3.0L Turbo Tuning Boxes Now Available

If you are ready to tune up the 420 horsepower that the new 2016+ Porsche 991.2 Carrera S and 4S comes with, we have the solution for you.  The new Carrera features a 3.0L turbocharged engine that we take from 420 horsepower to 467 horsepower with a plug and play module.  The programmable tuning box utilizes factory sensors clips for easy installation while retaining all factory engine safety controls.  Whether you are running pump gas or race fuel, the VR Tuned Tuning Box can juice up your Porsche safely.  The kit features a stock jumper plug to put your vehicle in stock mode, or for warranty purposes, simply remove the kit.  These new tuning boxes are available at $1500 each and can be ordered online here.

Porsche 991.2 Carrera S 3.0L Turbo Tuning Boxes Now Available

Customer"s VR Tuned Porsche GT3 Earns Best Time Attack

One of our customers, Jason Begalke, earned the best time attack at the NASA Arizona Wild Horse Pass East Track with his VR tuned Porsche GT3. His car features an Agency Power center muffler delete and a VR Tuned ECU flash. Jason tells us, “I didn’t quite break a minute, but the best lap in the morning was a 1:00.6. I had the best time in the time attack though!” We are proud of him and happy to have helped him tune the Porsche.

Check out the photos he sent us of his GT3, and a slip displaying him in first place for the time attack run at the track. Be sure to also watch the first-person video below featuring his run at the racetrack. It doesn’t get more up-close-and-personal than that!

Customer"s VR Tuned Porsche GT3 Earns Best Time Attack

Arizona Scion FRS ECU Flash for Better Driveability

The Scion FRS is one of our more popular ECU flashes as it really changes how the FA20 2.0L engine drives.  The stock car is missing a lot of performance down low and even has a torque dip around 3200rpm.  The VR Tuned ECU Flash for the FRS or BRZ really brings the FA20 to life.  Improving throttle response, smoothing out the torque dip, giving the car harder pull to redline are just some of the characteristics.  With our ECU Flash we can also changes for cars with high flow or catless race pipes.  We can increase the rev limiter and tune for different octanes.  This is one of the cars we did here at our Gilbert, Arizona location.  Check out the pics and to order your VR Tuned for the Scion FRS, go here!

Arizona Scion FRS ECU Flash for Better Driveability

Lord Disick Mercedes AMG GTS Build at Vivid

The Mercedes AMG GT-S coupe is a pretty awesome car.  For the longest time I was more of a BMW fan than Mercedes.  When we got our Project C63 my eyes were awoken to what Mercedes did.  The CLS63 we built was fun but a little to cush.  Our CLA45 is a reminder of the days driving the Mitsubishi EVO and Subaru STI.  But this AMG GT-S is right up Porsche ally and its a monster!  This car is a little special because of the owner.  Personally, it does not matter if you are a celebrity, sports star, or joe schmoe.  What is important is that you are down with cars and get it.  Car guys are car guys.  Scott Disick is a true car guy on the higher end of the car scale.  Having owned cars like the Ferrari 458, Mercedes SLR, Lamborghini Aventador, and even Bugatti Veyron, he is in touch with speed.  Over the years we have talked about different vehicles and finally we got together to make his new AMG GT-S boosted up.

The AMG GT-S was picked up and delivered to our shop in Gilbert, Arizona by our friends at Desert Eagle Auto Transport.  The car had just 3000 miles on the clock and our plan was to give it some more power with Agency Power and VR Tuned.  We wanted to show our capabilities against some of the other well respected Mercedes tuners.  In addition to the performance, we discussed giving the car a new exterior look inspired by some random google searches.  Where the Prior Design Widebody would be awesome, we went a little subtle with a wrap and wheel coating.  The first thing we did was a baseline test to see where the car was at.  We ran the car on our Mustang All Wheel Drive Dyno with 91 octane fuel and outside temperature around 50-60F.  Our baseline test yielded 416 awhp and 430 ft/lbs of torque.  Even though the car was rear wheel drive and we ran it in awd to avoid crazy dash lights with dyno mode, it had trouble keeping traction in 3 gear pulls.

Our first step in this build was to do downpipes.  The new 4.0L V8 engine is very strong and what we have seen from the past with our CLS63 and other turbo cars is that the downpipes give the most performance.  We chose to do catless downpipes which gave the twin turbo M178 engine no restriction and even faster turbo spool then what Mercedes designed with the “hot inside V” configuration”.  Turbocharged engines really don’t need backpressure, however if no restriction, the cars can get very loud.  So our fabrication team with Agency Power begin the develop of building the downpipes off the car and then jigging them up.  Now another part we decided to do for fun would be a straight pipe race exhaust.  Newer cars such as the Mercedes GT-S have a good flowing valved exhaust to be comfortable at cruising speeds yet aggressive when in race mode.  With a straight pipe system, this would be geared towards the track guy or those with #nocare!  It does save a ton of weight off the back end since there is no muffler.  While the downpipes were under way, we also began building this exhaust system to later jig up as well.

With the exhaust system underway, we did some testing of our VR Tuned ECU Flash for the Mercedes GT-S on our dyno.  Typical gains are rated for higher octane such as 93oct or up.  But in Arizona and California we have 91oct so the performance is slightly less.  With a drivetrain loss of 20-25%, we usually guess at around 22% from stock.  However the estimation is not always spot on so we look for what are the gains from our baseline to tuned.  The ECU flash allows us to adjust boost, fuel, and timing, as well as other parameters including that for catless downpipes.  Stock power is rated at 503 HP with 479 lb-ft(600 N-m), where once tuned goes to 615 HP | 585 lb-ft(664 N-m).  Thats a very strong gain and grows even more with the exhaust components.

With the package all put together, we did a final dyno and tests on the car.  The first impression is the insane sound that now comes from the 4.0L V8.  The straight exhaust is intense and makes the Mercedes sound like a mean GT3 race car.  When on the dyno the torque difference is menacing and makes the turbos come on extremely quick.  Our baseline run had the peak torque at 3300rpm making 430ft/lbs where now 3300rpm makes 510ft/lbs and peak torque goes to 526ft/lbs at 3700rpm.  3700rpm has a gain of 100 ft/lbs of torque over stock!  This gain in torque continues which tapers down to redline while still making 60ft/lbs of torque even at 5000rpm.  6100rpm is making around 50ft/lbs.  Horsepower is a very linear increase starting at 3300rpm with 40awhp and climbing up to a peak of 70awhp over stock.  This is about a 90bhp gain on 91octane which is very good.

Thanks to our friends at EAWraps in Scottsdale for this full satin charcoal wrap they did.  Having had cars wrapped by other companies in the past, this is one of the best jobs I have ever seen.  Its flawless and goes great.  Even down to the emblems and center caps were touched.  We also added a little flavor by powdercoating the stock wheels a bronze color to pop out.  Check out the videos and pictures below and let us know what you think!

• VR Tuned ECU Flash Mercedes GT-S


• Agency Power Mercedes GT-S Downpipes


• Agency Power Mercedes GT-S Race Exhaust

 

 

 

 

Lord Disick Mercedes AMG GTS Build at Vivid

Porsche 991, 981, Panamera, Cayenne OBDII Tuning Released

We are super excited to now be able to offer OBDII ECU flashing for all new Porsche models featuring the SDI6, SDI7, SDI8, SDI9 ECU’s!  These can be found in cars like the Porsche 981 Cayman, Boxster, and GT4, Porsche 991 Carrera and Carrera S, Porsche 991 Turbo and Turbo S.  Also no more removing your ECU for the new Porsche Panamera and Cayenne vehicles.  All Panamera V6, S V8, and Turbo from 10-15 can now be done via OBDII along with their matching Cayenne models!  With the OBDII flash we can raise the rev limiter, do decat files for race exhausts, increase throttle sensitivity, change torque limiters, lift vmax if applicable, and of course, tune for more horsepower and torque.  Files are custom written per read out to factor in octane used, elevation, modifications.  We can also do custom tunes for turbo upgrades on the Turbo vehicles.

Right now this is not an end user cable so requires the car to come to us in Gilbert, Arizona or us go to the car!  We expect to have end user cables to be able to perform this process worldwide within 60-90 days as seen here  – www.vrtuned.com/installation.

If you can’t wait and want a tune, contact us to schedule an appointment.  For Clubs or Group Buys, get a discount for scheduling us to come to you to flash the vehicles.  Just cover flight and hotel!  Contact us at tuning@vividracing.com.

Dealers can purchase this tool here to flash cars on side – VR Tuned Professional Tools

• PORSCHE 911 991 3.8 GT3 350KW A175-H38M BOSCH-MED17.1.11 TC1797 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE 911 991 4.0 GT3 RS 368KW H40M BOSCH-MED17.1.11 TC1797 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE 918 918 4.6 V8 Spyder 447KW J623 BOSCH-MED17.1.11 TC1797 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE 911 991 3.4 CARRERA 257Kw Continental SDI9 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE 911 991 3.8 CARRERA S 294Kw Continental SDI9 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE 911 991 3.8 TURBO 383Kw Continental SDI9 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE 911 991 3.8 TURBO S 412Kw Continental SDI9 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE PANAMERA 970 4.8 V8 S 294Kw Continental SDI6 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE PANAMERA 970 4.8 V8 4S 294Kw Continental SDI6 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE PANAMERA 970 4.8 V8 GTS 324Kw Continental SDI6 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE PANAMERA 970 4.8 V8 TURBO 368Kw Continental SDI6 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE PANAMERA 970 4.8 V8 TURBO S 405Kw Continental SDI6 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE PANAMERA 970 3.0 V6 S 309Kw Continental SDI7 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE PANAMERA 970 3.0 V6 4S 309Kw Continental SDI7 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE PANAMERA 970 4.8 V8 TURBO 382Kw Continental SDI8 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE PANAMERA 970 4.8 V8 TURBO S 419Kw Continental SDI8 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE CAYENNE 958 4.8 V8 GTS 309Kw Continental SDI7 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE CAYENNE 958 4.8 V8 S 294Kw Continental SDI7 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE CAYENNE 958 4.8 V8 TURBO 367Kw Continental SDI8 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE CAYENNE 958 4.8 V8 TURBO S 404Kw Continental SDI8 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE BOXSTER 981 3.4 S 232Kw Continental SDI9 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE BOXSTER 981 3.4 GTS 243Kw Continental SDI9 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE BOXSTER 981 3.8 SPYDER 275Kw Continental SDI9 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE CAYMAN 981 3.4 S 239Kw Continental SDI9 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE CAYMAN 981 3.4 GTS 250Kw Continental SDI9 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery


• PORSCHE CAYMAN 981 3.8 GT4 283Kw Continental SDI9 CAN vr/w/chk Recovery

Porsche 991, 981, Panamera, Cayenne OBDII Tuning Released