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Performance chips (usually actually programs these days) can do quite a bit for turbocharged motors. I probably wouldn't bother with it with a naturally aspirated motor though. Any gains will be minimal and geared more toward driveability (throttle remapping for example) than actual power.
If its one of those JET piggy back chips don't bother. Most of those inline "chips" basically just fool the computer into a different running loop by slightly changing the way the main computer gets its readings from the engine sensors.
I have never used any chip or programmer on my vehicles.
Actually it's called a performance module, I shouldn't have said chip. I put one on my cummins diesel and it was great. I was just wondering if there was anything I could put on my hemi that would give me better highway mileage.
I have the bama flash tuner on my 2011 5.0 for over a year now and its been a great performance upgrade, no issues. As for anything to get better gas mileage, I haven't heard of anything.
Actually it's called a performance module, I shouldn't have said chip. I put one on my cummins diesel and it was great. I was just wondering if there was anything I could put on my hemi that would give me better highway mileage.
I'd think if CryCo could have extracted any more MPG they would have done it
I'd think if CryCo could have extracted any more MPG they would have done it
Not really...
Every manufacturer I've ever seen has built their engine to a certain degree... then they dial back the performance a bit in the interest of longevity, horsepower, fuel mileage, and sound levels. This applies to econoboxes to even the exotics.
My car puts out an additional 80hp from stock just by doing a reflash. Other cars run richer than they should for optimum power, so a chip or reflash can make it run a bit leaner, and thus give you better gas mileage. Just depends on the application.
The Jet tuner/programmer one is pretty good I talked to a guy at Autozone that was an OCD tuner type and he got a lot of HP from his old Sirocco, remember those?, and 38MPG, but it took a lot of tweaking.
The 69$ ones are junk. There is another really good $$$ one ? where you have to send you ECU in and they take off the governor. A lot of the Fast and Furious crowd have em.
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