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Old Jul 12, 2005 | 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.
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Old Jul 12, 2005 | 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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Old Jul 12, 2005 | 01:49 PM
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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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Old Jul 12, 2005 | 02:23 PM
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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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Old Jul 12, 2005 | 02:26 PM
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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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Old Jul 12, 2005 | 05:26 PM
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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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Old Jul 12, 2005 | 10:48 PM
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with those power increases are we talking the stock twins here???
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Old Jul 12, 2005 | 10:52 PM
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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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Old Jul 13, 2005 | 07:24 AM
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with those power increases are we talking the stock twins here???
yes.
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