cheap chips on ebay
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I haven't tried one, but I believe that most of these sort of things tend to relie on raising the rev limit which will put additional stress on the engine (which is 20 years old to start with, don't forget). I think that chips work best on turbos, by increasing boost pressure.
I may be wrong about this. Perhaps some better breathing would be a more reliable, and cheaper alternative e.g. a K&N filter should give you 3 to 5 bhp and look quite smart too for a few quid.
Other alternatives involve various sections of the exhaust, for variously increasing costs.
This might be mostly rubbish, but no doubt someone will come along and put you on the right track shortly.
Getting your suspension sorted means that you will be able to go round corners quicker, which are more fun that the straights anyway. Anyone can go fast in a straight line!
I may be wrong about this. Perhaps some better breathing would be a more reliable, and cheaper alternative e.g. a K&N filter should give you 3 to 5 bhp and look quite smart too for a few quid.
Other alternatives involve various sections of the exhaust, for variously increasing costs.
This might be mostly rubbish, but no doubt someone will come along and put you on the right track shortly.
Getting your suspension sorted means that you will be able to go round corners quicker, which are more fun that the straights anyway. Anyone can go fast in a straight line!
Dave Wilkinson
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The two that are advertised are pretty common on eBay. The AccelRacing chip promises +20bhp and raises the rev limit by 300rpm. The TopPerform1 chip makes a variety of claims and seems to confuse the issue claiming a different chip for 88-89 3.6 litre cars and 90-92 and 93-95 cars. The bhp claims also seem all over the place and the rev limit is raised 500rpm..
Personally I think you are likely to be disappointed if you expect to get anything like they promise in terms of power output. It's possible you may find SOME running improvement, perhaps at the cost of a worse fuel consumption, but I'd be surprised if the seat-of-the-pants dyno could distinguish any difference.
As I'm sure you'll appreciate, the ONLY way to get any proven benefit from an ECU remap is to have it done dynamically on a dyno with a company who know what they are doing. Some companies, such as Steve Wong at Chip Wizards are very good at what they do but the dyno route is the only way to give you any proof of what you are paying for.
Personally I've got a ProMax chip in mine - which WASN'T done on a dyno - but I tried it as an experiment and it improved the idle and pick-up significantly so I kept it. I severely doubt it releases any more power though.
As with most things in this World, rarely do you get something for nothing (or, even cheap) so don't expect too much. I've seen a few mentions of the AccelRacing chip being used and there have been some problems with it on Tiptronic cars I believe, but I have never seen the TopPerform1 chip mentioned before and I would be very dubious given the strange write up.
Regards
Dave
Personally I think you are likely to be disappointed if you expect to get anything like they promise in terms of power output. It's possible you may find SOME running improvement, perhaps at the cost of a worse fuel consumption, but I'd be surprised if the seat-of-the-pants dyno could distinguish any difference.
As I'm sure you'll appreciate, the ONLY way to get any proven benefit from an ECU remap is to have it done dynamically on a dyno with a company who know what they are doing. Some companies, such as Steve Wong at Chip Wizards are very good at what they do but the dyno route is the only way to give you any proof of what you are paying for.
Personally I've got a ProMax chip in mine - which WASN'T done on a dyno - but I tried it as an experiment and it improved the idle and pick-up significantly so I kept it. I severely doubt it releases any more power though.
As with most things in this World, rarely do you get something for nothing (or, even cheap) so don't expect too much. I've seen a few mentions of the AccelRacing chip being used and there have been some problems with it on Tiptronic cars I believe, but I have never seen the TopPerform1 chip mentioned before and I would be very dubious given the strange write up.
Regards
Dave
I no where your coming from as on a nat/asp car big gains are hard to find without major work but it would be an interesting exercise i think and at only £80 if there claims are even half wright it would be a lot of bang for your bucks.I might bite the bullet just to see what if any gain or fuel benifit is made.I best ask them if and what it will do for my car ,i will let you no then if its a load of bull and only one of us has parted with there £££££.
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