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      05-17-2010, 08:52 PM   #89
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if the company knows what there doing then it can be raised safely. i have had there tunes on my past 3 M cars and never a problem and that is over 100k miles of driving

i also never had one problem at any BMW dealer with it and they all knew i had the Dinan software in there and on this current one and they still warrantied my car for anything it needed

but yes i agree it is more universal to work on any M3 versus a custom tune etc

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Originally Posted by mixja View Post
Yes and No.

I think the Dinan tune doesn't make as much power or at least claim to make as much power because it is a universal tune - i.e. for 91 Octane + - so it won't be tuned as aggressively as an alternative tune that is tuned for a minimum 93 Octane.

One could argue that raising the rev limit to 8600rpm is potentially more dangerous than any other tuning change that could be made - it certainly raises the possibility of the tune being detected (most conservative folk probably wouldn't want that).
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