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Old 10-20-04, 09:51 AM
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We Need S5 Rtek Chip!!!

like the title says

i have a s5 turboll and would like the rtek 1.7 chip but they havent made any chips for the S5.

i would like any and all s5 turboll owners to post saying they need a s5 chip.

hopefully they will r&d the s5 and start helping out the s5 turboll owners..


so come on s5 guys.........POST!!!!
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I would think that the return on investment from making a Rtek chip would be worth the cost of the car alone. I mean you can get a descent S5 turboII for $3500.00. To break even on the cost of the car alone they would only need to sell 35 chips at $100.00 each. Anything after that is gravy!

With the S5 most would be happy if they just removed the MOP CEL! Then they could sell to N/A and Turbo II.
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I couldn't see even making it for how few S5 Turbos are still on the road, and how few people would buy the chip.
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It would be nice. The S5 TIIs are notorious for pinging on a cool humid night with just exhaust upgrades.

An S5 Rtek chip would help solve that and keep the a/f correct and allow running slightly larger injectors with 8-10 PSI of boost on the stock setup.

I think the chips are the same, but the actual PROM (code) is probably different. They would have to re-code the chips and probably do a few dyno runs to determine the best timing, a/f, and boost levels to run first.
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I think the S5 do not have a removable PROM, which could be a problem.
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Originally Posted by Parastie
I think the S5 do not have a removable PROM, which could be a problem.
Neither do the S4 models, you just unsolder the old chip, solder a socket in, and plug the new (or old) chip into the new socket.
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On the website it looked like they were going to make chips for all FC models.
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Originally Posted by Kingofl337
I mean you can get a descent S5 turboII for $3500.00. To break even on the cost of the car alone they would only need to sell 35 chips at $100.00 each. Anything after that is gravy!
Ummm...not really. You have to remember that the chips cost money, as does the burner. And the programming takes time. I don't know his exact costs, but I would say he would have to probably sell closer to 70 at $100 each (probably around $3500 profit there) to pay for test car. 70 units is alot for the cheapo FC owners to buy. Alot of people say they will buy them now...I bet 75% of them never buy one once its available. So you can see its not really that easy for him to just grab an S5 and start hacking away at the ECU.

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they need to be paid for R&D as well. Not just labor and parts cost. It would be nice though to have one for s5 t2s. I agree on getting rid of the CEL for the electric OMP.
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we need S4 N/A CHIP
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Originally Posted by Agent_D
we need S4 N/A CHIP
yep
Old 10-22-04, 07:10 AM
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well we need all chips, but the s5 tll guys are hurtin.

the 1.7 chip would be nice in my car.....

please, at least by the spring??
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S5s get the cool stuff like HKS VPC and APEX PFC among others.
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Those are relatively expensive and more difficult to find EMS's. There are only a few Power FCs in the US I believe and I dont know one person with an hks vpc.
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No chips for S5s? More reason to quit trying to band-aid mazdas shitty EFI system and go with a standalone.
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No kidding. I've been holding my breath for that chip. And I really want one. It would be nice if they could go as far as they did with the 1g DSM and have the datalogger. But one step at a time. I WANT A CHIP FOR MY S5!!
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I bought an ecu from japan that let me run 15psi with a front mount IC. I turned the boost up to 18psi after i bought a fuel pump and pressure regulator.

I ran like that since last September. My motor went down last week because I turned down the pressure regulator to save gas and forgot to turn it back up before a race. What a stupid mistake.

I think I've got a sh$#@ty video of my dynoing at 20psi with the modded ecu and pressure regulator turned up. My boost controller failed halfway through the run so I only made 200hp but 270lb-ft of torque by 4500rpm. I'll try to post it (video and dyno).
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i would love to pick up one of these chips , i think alot of people would buy these up
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http://tooyoungto.servebeer.com/vide...boost_fail.wmv
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very true

Originally Posted by rosey
No chips for S5s? More reason to quit trying to band-aid mazdas shitty EFI system and go with a standalone.





i want to get EMS, but not at this particular time.
i would rather biuld up a fresh engine large turbo etc. when going with the EMS.

but for now all i want is alittle safety with my near stock set-up which i will be keeping until i have the $$ to go with all the big stuff.

na mean.........

i want s5 chip
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Originally Posted by Arpus
I bought an ecu from japan that let me run 15psi with a front mount IC. I turned the boost up to 18psi after i bought a fuel pump and pressure regulator.

I ran like that since last September. My motor went down last week because I turned down the pressure regulator to save gas and forgot to turn it back up before a race. What a stupid mistake.

I think I've got a sh$#@ty video of my dynoing at 20psi with the modded ecu and pressure regulator turned up. My boost controller failed halfway through the run so I only made 200hp but 270lb-ft of torque by 4500rpm. I'll try to post it (video and dyno).





i have that j-spec ecu in my s5.

and your boost isnt failing............once the boost creep has died off it shows its running at 7 psi (i think cause the camera started to move around alot at the end)



can anybody back me up on this or give a better explanation......cause im no expert
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I wasn't running a stock turbo or the stock boost control solenoid. It's a t3/t4 with a hks external wastegate on the hks manifold. The controller was an HKS EVC I.
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I would like to have a S4 chip as well.. What improvements could be made to a S4 ecu?? Have a Good Day,

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Originally Posted by ilike2eatricers
Those are relatively expensive and more difficult to find EMS's. There are only a few Power FCs in the US I believe and I dont know one person with an hks vpc.
I've never even seen a vpc for a s5 until one popped up on ebay a few days ago

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...spagename=WDVW
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Originally Posted by OverDriven
Ummm...not really. You have to remember that the chips cost money, as does the burner. And the programming takes time. I don't know his exact costs, but I would say he would have to probably sell closer to 70 at $100 each (probably around $3500 profit there) to pay for test car. 70 units is alot for the cheapo FC owners to buy. Alot of people say they will buy them now...I bet 75% of them never buy one once its available. So you can see its not really that easy for him to just grab an S5 and start hacking away at the ECU.

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The guys at R-Tek have a burner and chips. They also don't sell them for $100.00 its more like 175.00. Either way it wouldn't take many chips for them to hit break even. Also if they figure out a turbo ECU program an N/A MOP shut off would be easy.


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