[s-cars] Question About Chip Options

[FvAMI at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/21/03 6:10:29 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
MartinGG at aetna.com writes:


> because finding the maps in the boost chip has
> to
> 
> be too complicated for their highly skilled, top-notch (ahem) engineers.
> 
> 

In all fairness to superchips ... I bought their product for the UrS4 in late 
1996 and they do know where the boost maps are ... I think a quick compare 
with some other players could have quickly told them the locations ... As a 
matter of fact I derived my first boost chip for my own consumption in 1997 .... 
ahem ... after evaluating their code and the stock code.

At that time they absolutely did not recommend using a stiffer wastegate 
spring until I called and complained about the lack of horsepower. 

They had a very elegant fuel encryption board ... similar to the one MTM uses 
... but much higher production quality ... and very nice high quality labels 
on the EPROMs.

The good thing about them was that I bought it for $250.00 installed. I ended 
up taking them out and sending them back and got a refund without any issues. 
It did increase the torque but unimpressive on the horsepower. But I fixed 
that and got the best of both worlds at least I thought it was good for that 
time frame.

Superchips is more into building chips for a broad market of cars but it 
would be a little extreme to think they couldn't find the boost maps. Utilizing 
them ineffectively is probably a fair assessment!

Best regards,
Feico van der Laan