After market Computer Chips

Written by Omega

Sample Chip installation:

http://www.mustang50magazine.com/howto/33701/

When you purchase a stock vehicle, the ECU in the car is programmed only to control the current specification setup of the car along with environmental and other regulations. When adding modifications to the car, the ECU may need to be reprogrammed to account for the new setup in order to achieve optimum performance.

An after market chip allows the owner to personally reprogram the vehicle’s ECU to:

1. Adjust Air/Fuel ratio

2. Advance/retard timing,

3. Remap the transmission shift points (in automatic transmissions)

4. Increase rev limiter

5. Increase speed governor

6. Turn off the Malfunction Indicator Lamp (MIL)

7. Turn off traction control

8. Calibrate speedometer

9. etc.

Code’s Info

By far, SCT is the best software out there. They utilize the Ford software that allows the EEC/ECU/PCM (they’re all abbreviations for the same thing) to automatically correct itself and optimize the a/f ratio. The result is a safer and higher horsepower vehicle with the ability to learn when you modify it. As you mod the car, the EEC will learn what mod you did and adjust the a/f to gain maximum horsepower. Also, I recommend tuners over chips since they’re much easier to install and do the exact same thing.