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Hey guys Finally got my chip in the mail, Installing it tomorrow, I know some of you guys say they don't work but on the manual it says to give it 6 or so car rides. Who knows either way it will stay on so if I did notice something I will let you guys know

What kind and how much?

Did you put in the chip? How did it work? what do you think of chips from gfchips.com. Only $69 - waste of money?

jeffro57 wrote:Did you put in the chip? How did it work? what do you think of chips from gfchips.com. Only $69 - waste of money?

^^^THIS

erick44 wrote:on the manual it says to give it 6 or so car rides.

That's because by the time you've gone for at least 6 drives, you realize what a waste of money it was, but it's too late for you to return it !

Any answer as to how the chips work? Either the $400 ones, or the $69 one from gfchips.com? Have you seen an improvement in performance and mileage?

jeffro57 wrote:Any answer as to how the chips work? Either the $400 ones, or the $69 one from gfchips.com? Have you seen an improvement in performance and mileage?

THEY DO NOT WORK ON THESE CARS! The ECU is too smart and will correct from them. They work by changing the air flow signal (MAF) to the ECU. The ECU in turn will reduce the amount of fuel going in to the engine thus keeping your engine on the lean side. The problem is the ECU also reads the Exhaust A/F (1st O2 sensor) and will adjust the fuel to make it run richer. Now it may take it a few days but it will return where it was before you installed the "chip". These "chips" are nothing but a 10 cent resistor in a $69 package.

Now the $400+ Piggyback systems will work but you'll need to know how to "Tune" them and "Spoof" the ECU.

It hacks me off that Genvibe allows these guys to advertise on this site.

why not a CAI instead.. At least you'd see some real gains.. not much, but some