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Reflashing???

TK95Contour

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When i bought my car it came with a superchip that I never installed because the previous owner said it needing reflashing. I dont know anything about superchips and flashing/reflashing them..
 
When i bought my car it came with a superchip that I never installed because the previous owner said it needing reflashing. I dont know anything about superchips and flashing/reflashing them..

It means he bought a chip that was burnt for another car. If it's blue it's a paper weight. Sell it on Ebay for $50. If it's a red chip you could find a local tuner to dyno tune your car and burn the new program on that chip. Honestly unless you have an engine swap or some type of forced induction it will be a waste of money to get a tune at the moment.
 
If it's blue it's a paper weight. Sell it on Ebay for $50.

Why would you say that? I have a blue SCT chip in my Cougar that I think is the same as the old superchips. I had it reflashed by Nautilus and got a multi position switch for it at the same time.

Mine looks like this:
SSPX0164.jpg
 
Why would you say that? I have a blue SCT chip in my Cougar that I think is the same as the old superchips. I had it reflashed by Nautilus and got a multi position switch for it at the same time.

Mine looks like this:
SSPX0164.jpg

That's not the blue chip I was talking about. The normal blue chips as shown below either can't be reflashed or aren't capable of being flashed with the new superchips software. Is that chip above superchips? I know diablo chips looked like that but I wasn't sure if SCT/Superchips offered a bare board version other than maybe the multiposition they sell.

superchip.jpg


Here is the red one:

redchip.JPG
 
superchip.jpg


Thats the one... So its no good huh? I figured it wasnt worth putting in my stock SE.. I just wanted to find out what it was/if it was worth anything

thanks
 
Thats the one... So its no good huh? I figured it wasnt worth putting in my stock SE.. I just wanted to find out what it was/if it was worth anything

thanks

You can contact SCT to see what they say about that chip but I'd recommend selling it and sticking with bolt on mods until you do a 3L swap or a supercharger/turbo where a tune would be useful.
 
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