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Over the past year we’ve been developing our in-house European ECU tuning capabilities. While there are a lot of companies offering ‘tunes’ for European cars, only a handful actually develop their own tunes from scratch. Most companies just resell generic tuning files and have no experience or knowledge of how to calibrate an engine. AMS has been tuning cars on the dyno, at the track, and at rally stages for well over 10 years now. The knowledge we’ve gained from in depth stand alone ECU engine tuning and also what we’ve learned from our own engine development programs now gets translated in our new line of European tuning. A great example of this is tuning philosophy shows in the recent tune we did for a 2004 Bentley Continental GT.

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Recently, there have been a couple of poor attempts at copying our AMS cast widemouth design. A lot of honest people are being duped by receiving a seemingly lower cost item, but in the end could pay even more in replacements and labor time.

It’s for this reason that we wanted to shed some light on the positive attributes of our pipe vs. the competition.

This post only pertains to the downpipes pictured. We are sure there are other quality units out there, but these two are copies (albeit bad ones) of the AMS piece. We are only comparing one of the competitors units because the two non-AMS copies are identical to each other.

We understand that at $469.95, our downpipe is one of the most expensive on the market…. We have also proven that it’s the best made and most well designed through our rigorous testing and results.

The largest and most obvious difference in our pipe vs. the copy pipe is the fact that our pieces are 100% cast as they join to the flex section. Both AMS ends are cast because it provides unmatched performance, reliability and strength. Could we have cut down on costs by making it like the copy pipe? Sure, but we would be cutting corners resulting in a poorly designed pipe providing inferior results. We pride ourselves on providing the best product possible to our customers!

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A little while ago Leo contacted AMS to upgrade his bolt on turbo stock engine GT-R to an ALPHA 10 Package.  Leo's car has been in several online videos advertised as an ALPHA 9 but in actuality he was running a turbo smaller then we use for our ALPHA 9 kit. None the less it was time for an upgrade and he went BIG!

In addition to our FULL ALPHA 10 package Leo wanted a little bump in power. Rather than pulling the trigger on an ALPHA 12 he added our ported throttle bodies and our prototype intake manifold. The results were AWESOME! In fact it's the highest HP ALPHA 10 TO DATE!!!!

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Recently AMS was contacted by Tomei to ask permission to distribute our products in Japan.  Coming from such a great tuner we were honored for the opportunity.  Now thanks to Garage G-Force (http://www.gf-eng.co.jp/) you can now source AMS and ALPHA GT-R parts in Japan.

Here are some images from the Tokyo Auto Salon where AMS products were on display

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AMS recently had a good friend and customer of ours ask us to look into some performance upgrades for his V10 R8 to help shrink the gap between his ALPHA 10 GT-R. The first stage was to measure stock HP and to do a custom AMS tune.

Thankfully we had just invested a great deal of time and money so we can do in house custom ECU tuning on just about every European car on the market.

The results on a totally stock car were impressive to say the least! Read more…