Car not having correct HP

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Ok. Now I'm annoyed. So, as many of you know, I love RUF BTRs and I love to collect and tune them. A couple weeks back, maybe a month or two ago, I asked a guy to send me a 0/0/0 RUF. Turns out, he had every part purchased. This is not what I had wanted, but hey, I got a RUF BTR. I didn't like the shade of blue it had previously, so I painted it silver and let it sit in my garage. Today, I selected it and painted it a striking shade of green (Sassy Grass Green).

I decided to look at the tuning to make sure I had everything installed since its pointless keeping it stock, or as close to it as possible. I noticed something was very wrong with the horsepower numbers. With every single part installed, oil changed, and the engine repaired, I only make 571 horsepower. I know for a fact that a fully tuned RUF BTR '86 can produce 670 horsepower. Yes, RUFs have difficulty handling very high HP numbers, but what if it happened to a car that needed all the horsepower it can get? What's the deal with this?

EDIT: If this helps somehow, my car has 1,644.3 miles on it. I know the break-in range is 200-300 miles, but it only affects Premiums, right?
 
Hyped
Make sure it has all of it's engine upgrades on, and not just a turbo.
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List of horsepower upgrades purchased:

ECU Tuning
Engine Stages 1, 2, and 3
Sports Intake Manifold
Sports Exhaust Manifold
Sports Exhaust and Titanium Semi-Racing Exhaust (Both not installed)
Titanium Racing Exhaust
Low and Mid RPM Range Turbo Kits (not installed)
High RPM Range Turbo Kit

These are all of the available HP upgrades this car can get.
 
Check the power limiter, maybe he had it knocked down a little to meet some online lobby specs or something.
 
CallmeDan
Did you not read this?
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Dan, on most cars after so many miles, the HP will never come back to what it once was. For example, my Red Bull X2010 on my original account. It has over 600k miles, it had lost over 200HP, and no matter what it will never come back.

GT5 did simulate this, and a good job if I must say.
 
Lock2Lock
Dan, on most cars after so many miles, the HP will never come back to what it once was. For example, my Red Bull X2010 on my original account. It has over 600k miles, it had lost over 200HP, and no matter what it will never come back.

GT5 did simulate this, and a good job if I must say.
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Even then, it's only had 1.5K miles on it and still, if it lost power, it can't possibly lose over 100 HP.

My guess is that it was a hybrid that got reverted to stock and the engine upgrade, while present, no longer work.
 
Gerarghini
Even then, it's only had 1.5K miles on it and still, if it lost power, it can't possibly lose over 100 HP.

My guess is that it was a hybrid that got reverted to stock and the engine upgrade, while present, no longer work.
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Very possible. He wouldn't be the only one that had that happen.
 
C53A 4G63T
You didn't list an intake filter or sports cat. Thats prob not going to give you enough power though.
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Because I can't purchase those for this car. If you try to buy one, there's a yellow circle with an exclamation point next to it and it will say you can't install it on this car.
 

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