I know Hypertech chips are crap, but can they hurt performance? I put one in my car when I first got it (did not know any better) and now I have just left it in there figuring that even if it does not help much that it cant hurt it either. It was stock then, now it has a Crane 2032 cam, AFPR, LT headers, 24# inj. and the free mods.

 

Can it hurt it? Not likely. Can it help it. Not too much there either.

 

it depends on how much they really did to it.
generally they lower fan temps & turn up fuel & advance ignition timing which is not always a good thing.

a customer where i work at went through 4 or 5 hypercrap chips & each one had problems. he then tried jet chips & got no better, the next to last chip jet sent him had the fan on temps turned down, huge amounts of timing added everywhere & VATS turned off. he got a lot of spark knock even with 93 gas from it, i feel he was lucky he didn't damage his motor.
the last chip only had fan on temps turned down & they set the timing to less than what a stock chip runs.

with the mods you have done, i feel you should get into burning your own chips. even on a stock motor you can pick up a little performance just by fine tuning the chip by using what Grumpy says, "give the motor what it wants".