I was lookin around on ebay a few months ago and this guy was selling performance "chips" for your car. He said the chip would work on any model or any make as long as it was feul injected. He claimed it would make up to 15% incress. Hard to belive I thought so I checked his feedback. He had a few people sayin it worked! but he also had a few -ve's that said it was a rip off and all it was was a little resister. So I never bought one. How ever the other day it was freezing cold out side and I started thinking, The ECU manages the amount of feul to be injected in to the engine, it does this by geting a reading from the air tempature sensor. So when the air is cold it allows for more feul becuase the air is more dense. I then realized this must be what the guy on ebay is doing, trickin the ECU into thinking its cold out side when it realy is not. So heres my idea, If I take the air tempature senser out of the airbox, then put it in the freezer for 1/2 hour. Then I would take it out and do a reading of the resistance, then once I have the resistance I could go to radio shack and buy the correct resister. I could replace the tempature sensor with the resister. This should give it a bit more power in the summer time, but it wouldn't make a differance when its cold out side. Do you think this would work? or am I way off?

 

Scam

http://search.ebay.com/chip-20_eBay-...sortpropertyZ1

it wastes gas. scam just like the tornado.

 

what you're saying is with less dense air, you're tricking your car into puting MORE gas in.... is that actually better? there's a point when you have too much gas/air ratio.

this kid i know was telling me you actually want a little less gas, then it burns more efficiently, and hotter. in a way i believe him, but i also know he's a flake and says one thing then does the opposite.

but yeah, it's just a resistor, iu just don't know what part it affects or where you put it.

 

it would be better to add a little more gas and a medium amount of more air... that's what happens when you get an intake after your ECU resets.

you don't get better performance from that alone but it opens doors rather.

don't buy it.

 

Technosquare

 

Peice of crap. Don't waste your money and time

 

trick the car into thinking it's getting colder, denser air into the engine...

... so that it will try to compensate by adding more fuel, which will only make your car run rich because the stoich isn't right anymore, then you kill your O2 sensors, foul plugs, kill cat, etc.

In other words, if you don't believe the people above, here's another person telling you that IT IS CRAP