[s-cars] S8 ECU repair/modification

[ron kirkham]

Tim,

As Paul suggests, the MTM ECU mod removes the limiter.  I just had to check
it out once, and ran out of "safe" road, and nads, around 162.  She still
had legs.

I'd be happy to sell you the modded ECU........with the car attached.  I
need the garage space.

Ron
'97 A8 with many S8 parts, including deleted speed limiter (FOR SALE, CHEAP)
'95.5 S6A
'93 S4


On 1/3/08, pkrasusky at ups.com <pkrasusky at ups.com> wrote:
>
>
> Tim, er, "troubleshot":
>
> <<<Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 10:26:45 -0500
> From: "Tim Leonard" <nard1 at cablespeed.com>
> Subject: [s-cars] S8 ECU repair/modification
>
> My '02 S8 computer has a problem when the speed reaches 155. I need to
> repair this. Is there a recommendation as to who could fix this problem?
> Thanks,
> Tim Leonard
> ESCARGO
> Michigan>>>
>
>
>
> HAhahahaahahahahaaaa
>
> ahahahaha
>
> ahaha
>
> haha
>
> _FUNNIEST_POST_OF_THE_YEAR_(FPotY)!!!  Course, the year *is* only 3 daze
> old 8-).
>
> TIM!  Few things...
>
> 1) GREAT to see you're still around.  I'd been sorta wundrin' what
> happened to you.  Good to hear from you.  Missed you @ the last
> //SFest...  whattaya live in like MICHIGAN or something???  Hop / skip /
> jump 8-)
>
> B) You gots an '02 //S8!?!?!?  Who knew!  Nice!  Kudos.  Color?  What I
> really dig is how so many of the "gamers" here (come clean, Studebaker)
> ended up in these things (Alumibitch).  Good fer you!
>
> III)  155...  gee, how'd ya find that ahem "problem"???  HA!  Nutball!
> //S8s are friggin governed at friggin 155 - which for me is likely a
> good thing otherwise I'd be off ahem 'exploring' all too often.  The
> only way I've heard of removing said limiter is to buy the MTM chip
> which also alleges to give like 15hp IIRC(???).  Nope, no simple C4
> "remedy" and pulling the red shorted plug, uh uh, it's in the ECU
> programming.  The chip's hugely pricey though, like $1100 beans, again,
> IIRC(???!!!???).  No one I know in my circles of //S8dom has bothered.
>
> Four)  Tim, you should hop on over to (gasp) Audi World and join the
> handful of us here that have these that pollute / corrupt the D2 board
> there.  It's a great forum of mostly mature professional dudes (very
> un-C4 forum there) and a great resource of valuable info for these
> things.
>
> Anywhoze...  HTH, er sumptin'.
>
> And stuff and things, I think.
>
> Hope yer schwell out there in MI land...
>
> -Paul
>
>
>
> ps.  der 930 owner's manual suggests top speed is 158 (gotta love a
> manual which notes such), which I found oddly low but figured it was
> "limited" by the 4spd.  Speedo reads to 170.  I buried it and there was
> still like 1500+ to go on der tach.  Er um uhhhhhh...  allegedly,
> mutters Schultz...
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