Your Thoughts On Cheap Performance Chips
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Racer
Joined: Jul 2001
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From: Poughkeepsie NY
Your Thoughts On Cheap Performance Chips
How can an 8 dollar chip give you 35 extra HP? Has anyone had experience with any product like this? They claim to lean the mixture out a bit. I wonder if these wonder chips void the warrantee??? Here's an example on ebay. 200086265456
Melting Slicks
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hey you know there is this bridge in NYC you can buy with the $ you can make in tolls you can buy a zo6! those chips along with the toronado intake piece and special carburators that get 100 mpg are snake oil.
Le Mans Master
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From: Thousand Oaks California
Since the PCM does not contain a removable "chip", just send the $35 to me. You will realize exactly the same performance gain as sending your money to the e-Bay guy, but you will be helping a fellow Forum member take his wife to dinner at McDonalds.
Safety Car
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From: North Strand, NMB, SC; Retired x 2 (US Army: 70-90 AD) (US Army: 91-16 DAC); yea, I'm old.
Two phrases come to my mind:
You get what you pay for...
and
If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is...
Don't waste your $$$ on CRAZY EDDIE-type claims of improved this, faster that or anything else like that unless you can get conclusive, proven test results corraborating the claimed improvement.
JMHO...
You get what you pay for...
and
If it sounds to good to be true, it probably is...
Don't waste your $$$ on CRAZY EDDIE-type claims of improved this, faster that or anything else like that unless you can get conclusive, proven test results corraborating the claimed improvement.
JMHO...
Race Director
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From: Bergen County, NJ
I wonder where this chip is supposed to install, maybe in the glove compartment.
Drifting
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From: Cranford NJ
If you are looking to improve the tune on your car the only real way is with a custom tune that requires re-flashing the ECU.
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I've got two words. "Flux Capacitor" all you need to know when it comes to performance. Horsepower is nothing when compared to time travel.