[s-cars] RE: S4 Chip

[Joseph Pizzimenti]

Good, now Davie can stop picking on Mihnea for at
least a day or so.

Joe
--- Richard Tanimura <richard at tanimuras.com> wrote:
> 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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