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First of all, I would like to thank, publicly (I know that good service is hard to find these days, so praise is due), Scott Hart and Jerrad Irsch at IPD...They answered (esp. Jerrad) all of my questions, went out of their way to send me lots of material which helped me make up my mind and go with IPD when I was ready to go another direction. They both also made me feel comfortable since I was a bit nervous doing something this drastic to my car...
Well, here is what I have experienced, so far: WOW!
Without being too dramatic and without having any dyno printouts/results to add to my comments, I must say that the difference is...well, DRAMATIC!!! I did not know what to expect, exactly. I have driven customers' cars that have been upgraded by IPD (1998 C70, 1998 S70 t-5, etc.) so I had a basic idea, but this is something else!
After driving the car for about a mile or so at normal speeds in order for the engine to warm up, I started to push it progressively. Did rolling starts, starts from standstill, acceleration in all gears at different speeds and I can sum it up in this: 1st gear is SCARY, 2nd & 3rd gears are UNBELIEVABLE, 4th gear feels like the old 3rd but wound up and ready to go so you can imagine, and 5th gear is very impressive (accelerates like a 4th, feels like the car neds a 6th gear now!). What impressed me the most was the fact that the acceleration is more even that what it used to be, it is available at any time and in a tremendously more impressive way and the GOBS (I cannot emphasize the amount of torque that my car has all of a sudden) is torrid but not overwhelming. Torque steer is slightly more noticeable in the 2nd gear. In the 1st gear, you 've got to watch as the tires will light up in an instant. In 2nd gear, if you keep pushing it, STC will keep activating, and on wet pavement STC activated when I pushed it full throttle on 3rd gear!!!
Overall, even at normal driving speeds, the car has CRISP power available and you can choose how much to use. I am looking forward to enjoying it even more this weekend, the car feels like it got a new life! 0-60 MUST BE at extremely low 6 secs.
No codes, no messages generated, just plugged the ECU and started up right up!
That's all, for now!
Yannis
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2001 V70 T-5M SR, Classic Red/Graphite Lthr., ipd ME7 ECU Upgrade, Cold Weather, Dolby Surr. Sound, Rear Spoiler, 17' 'Tethys' alloys
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Yannis,
Wow, I leave you alone for a few months and this is what you do?! I'm getting upset now about selling my T5(M). :-( Anyone want to buy my C280 instead?
But seriously folks, just with my little old 236 hp T5, I find first almost unusable during hard accelaration. I've always said if I could have this in AWD, WOWOWOWO!!!
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Adam - V70 T5M - **FOR SALE** Click for Pictures
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Yannis, please update us on your gas mileage. Also, why didn't you go with the exhaust upgrade?
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Brian M. - 1998 S70GLT, 1998 S70, 1991 Maxima SE
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Yannis,
I'm confused, you mentioned 5th gear....your car doesn't have fifth gear...
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Regardless of manual or Geartronic transmission. And, as "derspi" pointed out below, my car has a 5-speed manual transmission.
Yannis
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2001 V70 T-5M SR, Classic Red/Graphite Lthr., ipd ME7 ECU Upgrade, K&N Air Filter, Cold Weather, Dolby Surr. Sound, Rear Spoiler, 17' 'Tethys' alloys
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Thanks Yannis,
My brain is back in '94 with the car I own....
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posted by
someone claiming to be derspi
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Mon Feb 4 00:49 CST 2002 [ RELATED]
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Funny, I think Yannis would know his car has a fifth gear - go figure. Let me point you to his sig line at the bottom of his post: 2001 V70 T5M, 5-speed manual is my guess...
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Yannis.
I have a low pressure turbo (2000 S70 GLT SE). Do you have any idea if the upgrade is quite as dramatic versus stock in this case?
Thanks.
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Oh, I have not idea as I have not driven, yet, any other car besides mine that has had an ME7 Motronic upgrade. I have driven cars that had a Motronic 4.4 upgrade (1998 models) but not any later models. IPD says that the GLT engine would increase in HP from 190 to 230 or 233. You can go to www.swedespeed.com, they have a related article on a link in their front page where all models are listed as far as HP and torque gains.
Yannis
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2001 V70 T-5M SR, Classic Red/Graphite Lthr., ipd ME7 ECU Upgrade, Cold Weather, Dolby Surr. Sound, Rear Spoiler, 17' 'Tethys' alloys
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posted by
someone claiming to be Oscar
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Sat Feb 2 05:05 CST 2002 [ RELATED]
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As you must know, the Vadis cart can totally erase all software from those ECUs if there's ever a reason to do a reload and although somewhat rare, it can and does happen at times for various reasons.
I can pretty much guess at Volvos opinion, response on it but what will IPD do for those who've spent $900 for software if their new performance software is ever erased while at a dealership for repairs? Will they reflash it for free being that the Vadis cart can't (yet) save or re-add that IPD software? Sooner or later this will become an issue for someone, somewhere.
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This had been one of my FIRST questions when I was contacting the companies I was researching..."will it be erased if it is connected to VADIS"? IPD and another company that uses flash technology (the rest use soldering which I eventually dismissed due to codes generated, etc.) assured me that the only way my new program would be erased is if the car had to go in for a major ECU software recall, something that has a tremendously remote chance. And I would definitely know if something like this would ever have to take place. Even then, they would reflash it at no extra charge. They have that in writing.
Yannis
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2001 V70 T-5M SR, Classic Red/Graphite Lthr., ipd ME7 ECU Upgrade, Cold Weather, Dolby Surr. Sound, Rear Spoiler, 17' 'Tethys' alloys
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posted by
someone claiming to be Oscar
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Sat Feb 2 17:51 CST 2002 [ RELATED]
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That's good to know as I'm sure it'll happen to someone, someday.
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