RE: Chips

["Glen Powell" <gpowell@acacianet.com>]

>To be fair to all tuners, I think that their products need to evaluated on
>an individual basis. 

Agreed. Also, all tuners should be fair, honest and technically accurate in their claims and advertising. A company named 'superchips'  claiming to provide 'chip upgrades' should be doing exactly that - providing CHIP UPGRADES - not some cheap resistor or zener hack. This is not an issue about HP claimed being achieved/not achieved or about what company's mod is 'best', it's about honesty, truth in advertising and technical accuracy. Personally, I won't deal with any company that is dishonest and/or attempts to mislead potential customers and not delivering what was claimed, advertised and the customer expected to receive in good faith - on principal - I don't care how great the product might be. If they're not honest about something so basic as claiming to 'upgrade chips' but delivering cheap HW hacks, what else would one need to question? I don't want to have to worry about it. I have confidence in products from manufacturers that make honest clamis and deliver what they promise.

Don't change the contents & function of the CHIP - don't claim 'chip upgrades'. It's that simple!

If this one mod is all one ever would  do - well - perhaps OK, you might get away with it. If one is planning other mods and engineering a larger total solution it is CRITICAL to know exactly how these mods work, what is affected and exactly how it all works and is implemented so that a complete, well engineered solution is possible without undesireable side effects, melted pistons, ventilated blocks, etc. If the manufacturer is lying or supplying misleading information about their products how can one possibly engineer a proper, safe  and optimum system? It's tough enough already!

Analogy: Your doctor knows you best and prescribes a specific drug for an illness. He knows the side effects, your health, family history, other maladies and drugs you might be taking. You go to the pharmacy to fill the prescription and the pharmacist substitues something totally different becuase he gets a far higher profit margin on this other drug, afterall, it too can be used to treat the same illness - to bad for you that the cheap substitue has nasty side effects, interacts with something else and you're dead.

Comparing the performance of different mods is a different but no less important issue.

-glen