[s-cars] RE: S4 Chip

[Richard Tanimura]

Fair question but pretty simplistic.

A chip resides in an environment. That environment may or may not be working
well. A performance chip invariable exposes the weaknesses in the rest of
the system because you are demanding more of all the parts. Since they first
show up when you put the chip in, your first response is to turn to the chip
tuner. More often than not, the problems prove to be mechanical. But you
need the tuner to help you discover if they are or aren't. Tuning is about
iteration. It is not a question of a "project" but rather a process. That is
where support comes in.

E.g. I got my chip from Mihnea plus a 2.5 bar PT. I put it in and thought it
was a big improvement. But Mihnea asked me how much boost I was getting. I
told him 1.1-1.3 bar. He told me I had a leak in my boost system. He talked
me through finding it. He then had me go out and do test runs. He suggested
that I tighten down the WG spring and things got even better.

So far, none of the problems were in the chip. It was just the chip tuner
that help me sort them.

Rich

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Forgie [mailto:forgied at direct.ca]
Sent: den 16 juli 2003 07:54
To: richard at tanimuras.com; s-cars
Subject: S4 Chip


Mike and Rich: If a chip is "good" (or great) why does it need support?
Isn't it "sorted" before you spend your $$$ on it?  Unless you are doing
something out of the ordinary (say K26/Garrett hybrid), then I might
understand the need for 'support', otherwise, I  wouldn't want to buy or
recommend anybody's "science project".

Dave F.
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