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JamesL
01-27-2010, 01:58 PM
As you consider your options for engine management in your Turbo Mopar, it’s important to remember the many benefits of an FWD Performance Computer and Calibration. Those benefits start long before you actually pick the phone up or click the mouse. First, consider that you are doing business with the company whose technology was first to the market by several years. Beyond Chrysler’s engineering work, FWD Performance took the ECU calibration to the next level. For some applications that has meant relatively small performance and economy gains in a stock platform. In other applications, modifications such as larger turbos, intercoolers, head work, manifold work and the desire to push more boost, required significant changes in the code. Being the first to provide base calibrations scaled to these changes gives FWD Performance an experience edge over any competitor seeking to copy or imitate our performance and quality gains. As such, we can offer a range of staged updates to meet your needs as your configuration changes, increasing performance and economy while maintaining some original drivability aspects.

Our calibration database has expanded to well over 300 different versions. For example, our famous Stage 5 calibrations have over 25 versions. These calibrations have powered several cars into the 10 second qtr mile world and others to 300, 400 and 500 HP. Our process begins with the setup information from the customer where we apply the best fit in terms of calibration. If the calibration needs tweaking, with the data provided by the customer, we make the changes to dial it in. Again, we were the first to the market on many platforms, 91-93 R/T 3BAR Calibrations, 92 SBEC II Calibrations and 3BAR VNT Calibrations. Our 10+ years of experience is unmatched. And, when you consider the fleet of Turbo Mopars we own, build, race or support through our automotive shop, combined with our in house Dynocom Eddy Current Chassis Dyno, you can rest assured that you are dealing with a solid company, delivering a superior product you can trust.

Secondly, it’s important to remember that from FWD Performance you are not just buying an expertly devised calibration developed to your setup, you are also buying an important piece of computer hardware for your car. As such, FWD Performance goes to great expense to see that all the computers we take in as cores are combed over by the same experts that build the computers for Chrysler. This third party, with the use of sophisticated proprietary Chrysler equipment and multiple testing techniques ensure the hardware we start with is the best possible. Cores that do not or cannot meet these high standards are taken out of circulation. After a thorough QA process a machined pin socket is professionally installed. This allows us or you to easily remove and replace a chip for later upgrades. Additionally, our chips are new. We have sourced the very valuable, and in some cases obsolete chips, to make sure there is a steady supply.

Price and convenience are other points to consider. Our core process is designed to insure that your downtime is zero or at worst minimized. The customer is charged a core charge up front. Once they receive our ECU and indicate their satisfaction with it, they have 30 days to send back their ECU core for a refund. This way the customer’s vehicle is not down while they wait. On top of that, if you are the original owner, and make changes to your car that require a new calibration, you can send in your FWD Performance computer and we will make the appropriate changes for your new set up free of charge one time. So if your car is only ready for a stage 3 now, but later you add a bigger IC, turbo, head work or what have you, you don’t have to pay twice for your calibration!

The decision is clearly yours. You can do your own if you’re up to it. You can buy a more risky competitor’s product or you can take advantage of the many benefits buying from FWD Performance brings to the table. While you’re at it browse our catalog which contains over a thousand items for Turbo Mopars. If you like, give us a call and let’s see if we can put a package deal together that save you even more.