I don't have many mods. stock exhaust manifolds with 2.5 inch flowmaster exhaust. 180 thermo, iroc air intake replacing that silly one with the 90 degree bends. drilled some holes where it sucks in the air. TB coolant bypass. Should I go for the hypertech roadrunner? Thermomaster? or the Jet chip for my car? If Jet, stage 1 or 2?

 

niether chip, alls they do is advance the ignition timming pretty much, u can do that urself for free with a timing light

 

Hey man did you do all those mods your self?

IMO there are 2 things you could do, to make your car fully tuneable
and get tons of power and potential.

BUILD a MEGASQUIRT

its cheap as one of those chips, but fully customizable, ****, you can run
it with a laptop while you are driving and tune it to perfection,

or

check out that post in the DIY PROM forum
titles V6 owners LOOK

or somthing like that.

you take an old 4 banger s-10 computer, or TPI Fbody computer,

and with some random other peices and hacking, you have basically
somthing as tuneable as a megasquirt.

if you are a prom pro (which i can safely assume you arent, since you want a hypertech) you could probably work the stock comp over.

Theres 2 other add on chips for your stocker that mayybbeeee you should consider,

FASTCHIP look em up, I was in talks with them and they told me 8-10 HP over stock with their chip.

Theres somthing called a venom chip, I saw it on summitracing, it works with any kind of stock or modded computer, and intercepts some of the signals, tweaking them to fool the computer into making more power.


Honestly, megasquirt is the way to go, and once I
get my head out of my atving hobby again, thats the route I am going
with my 2.8 V6 maro.

Going to get pace setter headers, bigger injectores, have a spare set of intake manifolds to P&P, go electronic ignition, all this no problem for megasquirt.

 

another option would be an apexi safc they can be wired into these cars ecms

 

What's that?

 

Not only will it advance my timing to take advantage of some plus gas, but it would also kick my ecm controlled fan on at 180 instead of 230, which would really help my over-heating problem. My fan doesn't kick on until the cars about to over-heat. Unless I use the ac, which sucks a lot of gas. I just wanted to know the differance between the 4 chips. (Jet Stage 1 & 2 - Hypertech Thermo vs roadrunner) - There isn't alot of info about this. My car isn't my full-time hobby. I'm more of a video game/comics reading indoor type of guy. I know a few things about cars is all. I do my own tune-ups and oil changes etc. I don't really want to get into programming my own ecm. I already use 89 to keep everything clean so the timing advance is welcome.

 

Well you don't need to program your ecm (I have several pre-tuned bins on moate's website) but it's always worthwhile. All you do is repin the harness, put together a memcal and plug it up. Well within the abilities of anyone who can solder. Looks like another chance to toot my horn so here ya go . -> Click here.