Looking to up horsepower via obdII

darinbolson · 10-20-2006, 09:42 PM

I have been trying to find out how to increase the horsepower in any engine with OBDII. As I understand it, there are ways to reprogram your car's computer, bypass fuel economy and get much more hp out of your car than usual. I looked into DashPC, a linux distro that looked promising, but from what I can see, it appears to be geared more towards diagnosis, and using it as a multimedia center for your car of all things. Anybody know of a package that will do this, or a distro aimed towards this?

cs-cam · 10-22-2006, 06:14 AM

Take it to a professional otherwise you can seriously destroy it too. I put Sierra fuel injection on a MkII Escort with a programmable ECU and tried to do it myself. I got cold start working *most* of the time and it running okay but there was a pretty big flat spot I couldn't get rid of.

Take it to your local dyno, they shouldn't charge too much for a quick fiddle but it depends on the computer in your car, some are programmable, some are not.