does anyone know of having a diode put somewhere in the engine compartment to put it in performance mode at all times.

 

On some vehicles, you can put a resistor across the intake air temp sensor. The ECU is programmed to think "The higher the resistance, the colder the air temp; so the higher the fuel requirement". Injecting more fuel will make a little more power.

 

can u do that on gsl-se,s too so i can tell my friend too. and how many resistors are u putting in there

 

No car I know of has a " performance mode", and even if it did this is a pretty fanciful method of finding it. If you want your car to go faster you'll have to spend actual money modifying it.

No it won't, quite the opposite in fact. Richer mixtures make less power. This nasty old hack used to be done to get more fuel if the mixtures were too lean. It is a bad idea...

 

I always thought n/a's ran a bit rich anyway?

 

Hey ed, come over to my houe and sit in my car for 15 minutes at idle.. I had it so rich tonite that it was making me cry... haha ahh.. ahem, anyhow, I did get idle up to about 500 by adjusting this screwy thing on the TB that set open the top TB plates a tad...

 

All of that cheap crap will degrade something else.
If you stuff a resistor on the coolant temp sensor, the car will eat more fuel all the time - your gas mileage will suffer significantly.
If you want more performance, drop the money for a fuel computer.
Power is not cheap.
Cheap will usually break something.



-Ted