512M performance upgrades

Koenig (D) did a lot of work for 512TR/M including chips and I think a turbo fit.

 

All the chips for the 512TR also work with the M. The best chips will give you an extra 35 BHP. Advantages of test pipes are increased BHP and louder. Diasadvantages are - too loud in a lot of cases. Koenig will provide your M with a 1000 BHP turbocharged engine conversion all for £50,000 UK POUNDS.

 

I have a set of chips for the M and it is the difference between day and night. PM me and I will give you the number of the chips and the manufacturer. The manufacturer claimed 50 hp increase if you had a TUBI currently on the car.

 

Just for your information the highest performance chip you can buy for your 512 is from the following company (+35 BHP increase) http://www.hs-elektronik.com/automarken/ferrari-d.html

 

You can add Brembo F50 brakes, lighter wheels, Penske shocks which will make it handle much better.

As far as the engine, apart from the chip just insulating the intake tubes over the wheels will give you a few cheap hp

Of course you can do turbos but you have to be careful or you'll blow the trans

 

It will have a nice sound to it, very F1

I have X-Ost on mine and thats insanely loud, especially since its topless
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I tried a TAP1 chip upgrade on my 512TR and it lost horsepower. I had my car on the dyno, did a test run in stock mode, the car produced a very nice hp and torque curve. (I have x-ost and test pipes)

we then let the car cool down, and removed the 2 ecu's and we installed the upgraded chips. We did two runs, and the car lost about 5 hp, and the hp curve was not smooth at all.

i went back to the stock ECU.

end of my story.

here is a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XFyRoZdIms

 

i am pretty sure the TR test pipes will not fit on 512TR. the TR and 512TR are two completely different exhaust systems.


it will be much louder with the test tubes. but not as loud as x-ost + test pipes. I met another 512TR owner with test pipes and tubi, and he immediately noticed my car was louder.

the x-ost has a more high end rasp at high rpms. its loud... especially when you do drive bys. i love it

i think x-ost also makes a "race" version muffler, which is probably even louder. i would probably get that one if i had to do it over again.

 

I experimented with different sports exhausts for a 512TR over a course of 5 years and even designed and built my own system and can tell you for 100% that test pipes for a TR and 512TR will also fit on an M. They are exactly the same for all three cars. Check this with any well known Ferrari exhaust dealer and they will confirm what I say. Also MannyGMT2 is wrong - Early Testarossa exhaust systems have no catalytic converters. Later versions do though (POST 1990 and onwards to 92). On the later versions of the Testarossa the exhaust system is identical to the one a 512TR/M. It is a cat exhaust system only. Any good sports exhaust alone is capable of giving you an extra 10 to 12 BHP. Fitting a pair of test pipes should give you another 20 BHP. The TAP1 performance chip is the cheapest priced chip available on the market at around £500. I'm glad MannyGMT2 came forward to reveal it is crap. If I were him I'd be pretty p1ssed off about it and be demanding a refund. On the other hand if I were you and I wanted a guaranteed power increase performance chip that works, I would be safe and purchase the one that Koenig Specials are selling for your car. These guys are the best in the business. Shame about the price though. H-S ELEKTRONIK do have dyno evidence on their website that their chip does work and does provide a 35 BHP increase.

 

For local customers we developed a piggyback tuning solution that allows custom tuning.

 

Do you have any test figures for the ones that you have done ?

 

Unfortunately you need to get it direct from H-S in Germany. Importing isn't a problem though. Should arrive with you in 5 days or so. If you have no luck with them there's always Koenig Specials. Their chip will give you a guaranteed 30 BHP increase. I just can't believe the nerve of TAP1 with their Cowboy chip. What a bloody con.

 

I personally wouldn't bother fitting a chip. By the time you are finished with all these upgrades your car should hit 60 MPH in 4 seconds (no less) which is still no where as fast as the latest cars i.e. 458 Italia etc. They're just going to get quicker and quicker every couple of years. If I were you I'd just be happy with the exciting experience and look of your 512 with a loud sports exhaust. People everywhere are still going to be turning there heads and staring at it no matter whether you fit the chip or not.

 

Ok, I am looking at my dyno sheets report

this was done on a Mustang Dynamometer for AWD cars (if that makes a difference?). Hp figures on this dyno are REALLY low.

anyway, the final figures were

Unchipped (with X-OST and test pipes) = 326hp Torque = 292ft-lbs
Chipped (with X-OST and test pipes)= 319hp Torque = 286 ft-lbs

also note, I only ran the car to 7000rpm for the test runs, since previously my car had an engine out and I only drove it about 1000miles before the dyno run.

The chip did flatten out the torque curve a bit, and max HP was also sooner than in stock mode. I will scan the files and put them up so anyone else can give a better interpretation of the results.

 

I did get a refund from Tap1 no questions asked. as for the difference between TR, and 512TR I thought they were different because Ferrari list different part numbers, and I was just looking at my TR vs 512TR parts diagrams, and the systems look different.

 

This was because the TR exhaust system you saw on the diagrams was most probably an early (PRE 1990) system which was different to the 512TR exhaust. TR exhausts after 1990 up to 1992 when production on that car ended were exactly the same as the one on the 512TR.