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> Placement on automotive CPUs has measurably increased engine horsepower. How is this even legal? It's not like the metal box doesn't do anything at all.
by consp 2y ago
> Placement on automotive CPUs has measurably increased engine horsepower.
How is this even legal? It's not like the metal box doesn't do anything at all.
- rtkwe 2y agoBecause the FTC is budgetarily starved intentionally and doesn't have the time to go after every minor false claim out there. It's also a somewhat losing game because all they really have to do is have a single measurement showing a car did produce more horse power after placing the slab on the chip, which is extremely doable because measuring generated horsepower is far from a perfectly repeatable measurement, and they could slip out of any case brought by the FTC or winnow it down to a minor fine for less than the profits from their sales.
- olyjohn 2y agoThey have dyno charts on their website! It made between 2.7 and 3hp on the two vehicles they tested, which is pretty much the amount of variation you'd expect between two dyno runs. Total rubbish.
- rtkwe 2y agoI didn't scroll far enough to see those but that's exactly what I'd expect. Minute "improvements" that are really just statistical noise from a dyno due to tiny variations even if the test(s) were genuine.