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Sep 14, 2006 | 08:07 PM

Tenax1970

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Speed chips

Has anyone purchased and installed one of the many available chips that increase HP? Are they crap or do they really work?

Sep 14, 2006 | 08:12 PM

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If you mean the eBay ones, they're total garbage.

Sep 14, 2006 | 08:16 PM

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Other than the crap on eBay what other brands are decent - if you happen to know of any.

Sep 14, 2006 | 08:25 PM

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Those "speed chips" are nothing more than resisters. If you want incredible horsepower for cheap, go to Radioshack and buy the resistor with the highest Ohm rating and plug that between your MAF and your ECU and let the good times roll.

If you want a real speed chip, you're going to have to pay some good money. Also, you're not going to find any speed chips for the tC.