how much to retard timing

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if the only reason you are getting a JWT ecu is so you can go faster than 120, you are paying way too much. Take wire cutters, cut the right wire, and no more speed cut. Thought everyone knew that by now.

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andrave wrote:if the only reason you are getting a JWT ecu is so you can go faster than 120, you are paying way too much. Take wire cutters, cut the right wire, and no more speed cut. Thought everyone knew that by now.
I do now about that trick but im not cutting my harness and installing an AutoZone glow switch on my 98 dash man!

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Fuel is essential. No skimp on your fuel delivery system, unless you want a leaned-out, blown up motor.

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Altiman94 wrote:Fuel is essential. No skimp on your fuel delivery system, unless you want a leaned-out, blown up motor.


Yup! I plan to spend no less than 700 dollars on a fuel system and i only want 275 at the wheels. Im doing this to make my motor last longer.

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I am Technoman wrote:I would really like to go faster than 120MPH


Me too... just to see how fast my car can go... but as andrave said, if your getting the JWT ECU just for that then it's a waste of money IMO.

I'm still trying to hack my ECU, but if things come to be I'll splice the speed sensor wire to the ECU to see how fast I can take my car... just once at least.

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an autozone glow switch? wtf?I don't know what you are talking about.All you do is snip a wire. If you don't like it or if you sell a car just splice the damn thing back together.its your money, just 300 bucks you could spend on something else.

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andrave wrote:an autozone glow switch? wtf?I don't know what you are talking about.All you do is snip a wire. If you don't like it or if you sell a car just splice the damn thing back together.its your money, just 300 bucks you could spend on something else.


On a 98 240 if I snip the wire i will lose my speedo So i would have to place a switch in line with that wire to turn it off or on but I would never see how fast I was going because my speedo would not work.

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How can you not know what an autozone glow switch is? I thought everyone had seen those. I for one think you SHOULD do the switch method, but use one of those toggle switches with the red covers like they use on nitrous. That way everyone will THINK you have nawwws!

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HHHAAAA and when he flips the switch at 115-119 to break 120 the person watching the spedo will have a heart attack because the speedo will die and for an instant he will think everything just went to Shyt:rotflmao (that is if the passenger is the average joe not an understanding performance nut)

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I've had my car on D from unleaded :-)The JWT retune removes that pesky speed limiter.

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yea but not cheap and the down time.....

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I dunno i will just live with the 120HPH cut and be happy!i mean how fast do i really need to go?:D

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Would the MSD DIS-2 work? 24E


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