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Old 07-12-05, 12:50 PM
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HKS Twinpower

I just installed the HKS Twinpower this weekend. The red LED on the side barely lights up and I have to cup my hands over it to notice it during the day. Is this normal?

Also, does anyone know what kind of diagnostics tests I can do to make sure the thing is working properly? The car feels exactly the same as before but I'm not surprised about that because it was just tuned recently.
Old 07-12-05, 01:44 PM
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light is normal..I had bad breakup in the higher rpms @WOT..It cleared that up.. Don't know if you could tell if you never had a prob. Before.. I dynoed w/ and w/ out. W/ netted 22rwhp...
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Agreed, it's faint but that's the norm.

My before and after runs showed gains across the board. max was 8 rwhp but 19 ft/lbs.

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Originally Posted by G's 3rd Gen
light is normal..I had bad breakup in the higher rpms @WOT..It cleared that up.. Don't know if you could tell if you never had a prob. Before.. I dynoed w/ and w/ out. W/ netted 22rwhp...
i netted 23 rwhp too. i had same scenario. car had break up and the hks twin power fixed that, so i ultimately made more power.
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Originally Posted by G's 3rd Gen
light is normal..I had bad breakup in the higher rpms @WOT..It cleared that up.. Don't know if you could tell if you never had a prob. Before.. I dynoed w/ and w/ out. W/ netted 22rwhp...
At same boost level ?

I should be getting my HKS TP this weekend and it was on my wishlist for over a year. I have horrible breakup over 6000k RPM at 13psi. So I figured that having all these mods and running only 10psi is not enough

I hope it clears the top end and I will head to the dyno to see it in numbers.
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Originally Posted by matty
i netted 23 rwhp too. i had same scenario. car had break up and the hks twin power fixed that, so i ultimately made more power.
Same here... I switched in the Twin Power on the dyno and it smoothed out and increased the HP. IIRC, I think it was a difference of about 15-20rwhp.
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with those power increases are we talking the stock twins here???
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well most led wont blind you during daylight.... the red led is actually pretty bright when its dark out
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Originally Posted by ORX705
with those power increases are we talking the stock twins here???
yes.




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