Hello All,
I've spent years with Saabs but have recently acquired a '04 S600 for an extremely reasonable price. These cars are now amazingly good value and, although not cheap to run, give decent fuel consumption. I've been getting 27mpg imp. on the motorway and 21mpg A/B road driving. My car has done lots and lots of motorway miles (140k), one previous owner and has Merc FSH and cost me £7500.
They are conservatively rated at 493bhp but a number of dyno runs conducted in the US suggest they put out closer to 530-540bhp. Being turboed, they respond well to a remap. The best in terms of BHP gains, popularity and quality seemed to be Kleeman and Renntech, but I found the prices off-putting. There are lots of other companies that offer remaps but the claimed bhp gains were either unverified or much smaller than that obtained by the market leaders.
Cutting through all the remapping claims, I managed to find Eurocharged. They recently tuned an otherwise stock S600 that has managed a 12.1 sec 121mph quarter mile and have dynos to prove a 60rwhp gain. That is at least as good as Kleeman/Renntech manage. The remap was also MUCH cheaper. The only problem is that Eurocharged is based in Texas and I didn't trust customs/postal services with my ECU.
I contacted Jerry at Eurocharged and within two days had his loaner OBD ECU flasher in my hands which he had posted to me. Yesterday evening he logged into my computer from Texas, downloaded various files, moved the mouse about quite a lot and finally flashed a new file to the ECU. It was a surreal experience watching all of this going on, sitting on the roadside in Bath while the car was remapped from Texas. The whole process took about 40 minutes.
The car, of course, has gone from very fast to blisteringly fast. It also drives just like stock in normal driving.
Over all, really happy with both the service I got and the tune.
Not sure how many other bi-turbo owners there are here but since I am a bit of a car nut and DIY tuning freak, expect to hear more from me in the future.
Cheers,
Alanb
I've spent years with Saabs but have recently acquired a '04 S600 for an extremely reasonable price. These cars are now amazingly good value and, although not cheap to run, give decent fuel consumption. I've been getting 27mpg imp. on the motorway and 21mpg A/B road driving. My car has done lots and lots of motorway miles (140k), one previous owner and has Merc FSH and cost me £7500.
They are conservatively rated at 493bhp but a number of dyno runs conducted in the US suggest they put out closer to 530-540bhp. Being turboed, they respond well to a remap. The best in terms of BHP gains, popularity and quality seemed to be Kleeman and Renntech, but I found the prices off-putting. There are lots of other companies that offer remaps but the claimed bhp gains were either unverified or much smaller than that obtained by the market leaders.
Cutting through all the remapping claims, I managed to find Eurocharged. They recently tuned an otherwise stock S600 that has managed a 12.1 sec 121mph quarter mile and have dynos to prove a 60rwhp gain. That is at least as good as Kleeman/Renntech manage. The remap was also MUCH cheaper. The only problem is that Eurocharged is based in Texas and I didn't trust customs/postal services with my ECU.
I contacted Jerry at Eurocharged and within two days had his loaner OBD ECU flasher in my hands which he had posted to me. Yesterday evening he logged into my computer from Texas, downloaded various files, moved the mouse about quite a lot and finally flashed a new file to the ECU. It was a surreal experience watching all of this going on, sitting on the roadside in Bath while the car was remapped from Texas. The whole process took about 40 minutes.
The car, of course, has gone from very fast to blisteringly fast. It also drives just like stock in normal driving.
Over all, really happy with both the service I got and the tune.
Not sure how many other bi-turbo owners there are here but since I am a bit of a car nut and DIY tuning freak, expect to hear more from me in the future.
Cheers,
Alanb
Even if technically a tune for a distance is possible, nothing like a real life "hands on" situation to make it happen. Guess I like to see things in order to believe 
