Hey guys, so yesterday a new customer brings in a modded turbo that he picked up and says the car is stuttering (not plugs), surging and stalling under any type of load. He said the previous owner had it chipped so we started digging around in the back and found a really sweet rats nest



Basically what you see here is a piggy back system spliced into the factory harness with two boxes. The small ones is basically a boost controller of sorts. The entire unit forces the factory boost pressure sensor into reading only .6bar but upon measuring it manually ourselves it was running more like 1.2bar and on 91 etc... From what we could tell the car would run on a stock map until it sensed anything abover 4000rpms and full boost at which time the "piggback" would take over and force the car to do things that when tuned the way it was were not exactly safe.

PS Guys be careful who does the wiring because as you can see there are wires loose, shorted and generally left in quite a mess.

 

Thanks for not putting a "NSFW" on the title... you just made me lose my lunch.

 

looks like a tumor, or one of those 1.5 headed cats from Chernobl...
Joe

 

Freaking dirty bastards!!! How did the customer react... I cant imagine him being a happy camper!

 

LOL! But in all seriousness that car could have been in for a world of hurt

 

Dastek, I have heard of them, they are something to do with Unichip!

 

hey alex, well here's a pic from last night when we were still looking at it. Unfortuntately he was just a regular guy that didn't know too much about cars and got sort of taken for a ride. After it got fixed, codes cleared/addressed and the stage II kit installed he was a happy camper again...

 

Please tell us who the previous "tuner" was for the car so we can rip on them mercilessly. Please please, this could be so fun.

Find anything else interesting?

 

Luckily for everyone it's somebody that I don't believe is around anymore so we're all safe I know mistakes can and _do_ happen but this was just lazy. Nevermind that the Piggyback system doesn't work right but the application was very shoddy in this instance....

 

Yikes,

I surprised it didnt self-ignite.

MK

 

that is just gross!

-Suman

 

Alex,

I keep telling you again and again!

We need a SharkWerks here in the Northeast. Long Island, NY if you don't mind.

Those pics are truly horrifying.

 

No kidding... at least James got to use his super-duper-crazy soldering kit I bought him for his b'day tho

 

Nice repair work!!!!
I cant figure out what some people are thinking. Why would somebody leave a TT with crap like that? If it was a Vette I might understand

 

Friends dont let friends install UC....