first of, let me say that the people at speedinovations are first class, top notch people. i was 45 minutes late because i got a little lost and because of the rain. after razzing me a little bit, it was forgiven, but wasn't right on my part, i got a free set of high quality material and was late, so my apologies.

jesse, jose, and the guy at the dyno shop were great people. i only spoke to jose on the phone and we worked out some of the drama on this forum that was basically uncalled for, they were willing to back up their claims and did so, far beyond my skeptical expectations.

so i rolled up to the shop at 11:45 am, and the first thing i see is a brand new, bright orange Lamborghini (that the shop actually owns), a cls63, m5, beautiful 350z and a bunch of other great cars. i instantly felt like i was out of place financially, and out of line in the way i questioned the business to begin with. these people work with high dollar, high power vehicles, we are talking 6-700 horsepower, 100k-300k vehicles that frankly kick ***.

the shop was pristine, had the hottest collection of wheels i have ever seen and seemed to run very smoothly. the guys there are pretty young, probably a little older than me (24) but definitely know there stuff. jesse is something of a prodigy at constantly outwits and outworks tuners like upsolute, apr, evosport, renntech, etc. he told me they are in a gti shootout with apr and are up 10 whp with just their chip alone. he also has made 344 whp on a c32 with chip, pulley and exhaust, a kit that cost of third of the competitors.

so he tells me to follow him after i sign a couple of waivers and he hops in his dead sexy cls63 (which he is going to twin turbo to the tune of 600 plus whp, and it currently makes over 400 whp). we take about a 15 minute drive to the dyno shop which was in an industrial area in some city i have never been to before.

the shop is loaded with cool cars, including a gtr 35 turbo equipped s2k that is capable of putting out 600whp. picture a fast in the furious headquarter, lol, supercharged integras, all sorts of s2k's, cool stuff.

so anyway enough rhetoric, lets get to the meat.

so i explain to him the problem with the dyno, the fact we can't rev past 5,000 rpm. he is surprised to hear it, and even more surprised when i tell him our ridiculous remedy. jesse tells me he has a feeling he can fix the problem easily, to which i scoff, because of all the b.s. i have heard about our ecu's. we take a baseline run, and come back at 197 whp. i was beyond surprised to be making that much power, and they were fairly surprised also. this is on a dynapack, so on a dyno with rollers that equated to about 185 whp or a little more. he takes out my ecu, goes to his "magic table" and laptop, comes back five minutes later, and BOOM, instantly 6,300 rpm dynos.

he tunes the car, come back at 206, and three following runs are the same. he goes back to his magic table, works on my ecu some more (his laptop has over 30 maps for our car)
puts it back in, and we make 207. then 208. then 209. then 210. then 211.

time for more of jesse's magic. another twenty minutes, back on the dyno. 212, 213, 215,
217.

back to the magic table. twenty minutes, back to the dyno.

218, 219, 220 whp, 243 torque. subtract for the dynopack adjustment, you are looking at probably 207-210 whp (the guy who owns the shop dynoed his stock s2k on the dynapack, ran 212 whp, then ran on a roller dyno and got 200 whp, so im assuming about a 12 whp difference).

we shake hands, i bow down to jesse, tell him he is the man, GUARANTEE him some business, if you guys don't buy these your not worthy of this car, and hope in my car.

no for in car impressions, i pull onto a long straight away, rev to 4k, drop the clutch, punch it, and leave about a 15 foot long patch of tire tracks. hit second, right into third, and in a stopwatch 5.5 seconds later im at 60. on the highway, the torque difference if fu#kin instance, i mean this is about 260 ft lbs. crank torque here.

so, the group buy price is 450 for 30 member, go tell your friends, go tell your neighbors, tell strangers you see with this car, tell anyone who will listen. the throttle is smoother, the car yanks your head into the backrest, and the experience is amazing. i love speed innovations, they are my best friends now.


p.s. keep your eyes open for headers, me and jesse are screaming...