would this do me any good? im puttin the hotcam in, and people have said i wont hit its potential without a better intake and chip. i plan on gettting intake soon, but would the hypertech stage 2 chip help me at all?
thanks
chris

 

Hey, welcome to the boards!

Well, I will be the first to let you in on a little secret... thoes hypertech chips and jet chips and whatever... they are 100% crap. Thoes companies do very little to the chips. They usualy just advance timming near WOT and thats it.. A custom made PROM is what you want if your gunna get the max out of an intake/cam swap. Now, I have not yet dipped into this part of modding, but Im gunna have to soon as I want to max out my head/cam/exhaust/intake swap this summer. People say its easy to learn how and very cheap. For about the price of a hypercrap chip, you can get your very own set up. Im sure tons of othere people are gunna come in here and tell you the same thing. Good luck and happy modding!!
Alex
aka Big Al

EDIT: wait a frickin min!!! i know that sig!!! ahhh a fellow chaos member... didnt i tell you they were crap on chaos?

 

Agreed. Save your money and get into eprom burning instead. It is easy, and the money you would have spent on a Hypercrap chip will go a long way for paying for the equipment.

 

If DIY is not for you try Ed Wright at www.fastchip.com. A better chip then the ones mentioned. I am usinf the fastchip stage ll.

 

And here's the first 175lbs of those tons. Yes, definitely learn how to do your own.

I've looked at those "Hypercrap" chips on my Tuner software and Alex is absolutely correct. They only fiddle around with WOT a little because that's the only way to keep it smog legal.

When you do your own chip, you can get it exactly the way you like it. Granted it'll take a little time to learn it all, but in the end you'll be way ahead.

 

oooo never had someone call me by my real name on line!! hehehe... i have a question for you. Pro-T, when it comes time for inspection, could i put in a custom PROM in that will de-tune my car for lower emissions? ill prob. ask this or it prob. has been asked... ill do a search, but i would like to lower my fuel pressure to like 35, set timing at whatever, and have everything lean so i dont fail... just in case...

 

whats up al, yeh i think u did tell me those chips were crap, anyaway ill prob get the **** to do my self, thanks!

 

I'm sure it will help. Simply lean out the mixture a little as well as reduce ignition timing at idle and 2500 rpm. This will lower your CO, HC, and NOx output. In California, these are the two operating conditions they inspect at.

However, make sure you set your base timing (at the distributor) to the factory 6° BTDC and fuel pressure at 35 psi, and make all of your adjustments in the ECM.

 

Where can i get the software and everything else i need to burn my own chips?

 

https://www.thirdgen.org/newdesign/tech/promintro.shtml

Read this!!! It has just about everything you will need to know to get started. Also check out the DIY Prom board, do searches and ask questions. Good luck