Input on "Superchips" Tuner
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Drifting
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From: Lake Mary Florida
Input on "Superchips" Tuner
A tuner I am working with has recommended the supplier "Superchips" for the re-programmer for my 1998 Coupe. He typically uses the Diablosports Predator but they do not offer a unit for pre-1999 cars. It appears that the unit has almost no user-adustable paramaters. You tell the company your VIN and mods and they provide a "optimized" program for your specific situation.
Can the Forum provide me some input on this product?
Can the Forum provide me some input on this product?
Burning Brakes
Joined: Feb 2002
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From: Texas
A Superchips tuner came with my supercharger kit (they don't anymore). The superchips tuner was a complete waste of money as they did not get the tune anywhere close to correct. Don't waste you time and money with Superchips. The best advice is to get your car wideband dyno-tuned by a professional who has done many cars before and uses LS-1 edit. You will actually get all of the benefit possible from your mods and you will have piece of mind that the tune was dialed in and optimized for your specific car.
--Sean
--Sean
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Drifting
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From: Lake Mary Florida
Got my car back from the installer and completed initial road testing. So far I am very pleased with the Superchips "mail order tune". Everything seems right on- gear scaling, rev limiter, shift points and firmness, no detonation, no DTC codes, etc.. There was an initial issue with speedometer calibration, but Superchips took care of that promptly.
I plan to take it to a tuner in the spring who is a Superchips distributor to check the tune on the dyno. I will be very surprised if changes are required.
I plan to take it to a tuner in the spring who is a Superchips distributor to check the tune on the dyno. I will be very surprised if changes are required.
Team Owner
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There was an initial issue with speedometer calibration, but Superchips took care of that promptly.
Did you also install different heigth trear tires ?
Intermediate
Joined: May 2004
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From: Ca
The tune that comes with the maggie works well on a stock corvette, but if you have other mods you had better make a date with a dyno shop that knows how to tune this system. The magna Charger tune is a little on the safe side and trying to make a pizza cutter tune up that works in the 129 deg Arizona desert as well as -30 deg in Canada and denver Altitude compaired to see level and to keep engines from melting down from from any other things like poor installations, pluged fuel filters, other unknown performance items, well Im not surprized that everone is not happy. I have never heard of anyone blowing up a vette running the supplied micro tuner, only a few that were not happy with the total performance and those cars most likely had other performance mods. Anyway the supplied tune passed all the EPA testing for there EO and it is good enough to drive on untill you get around to getting it on the dyno so I guess its not all that bad.And FYI superchips only supplies the hand held to Magna Chager they do there own tuning.
Last edited by Torque; Nov 28, 2004 at 10:33 AM.
