Originally posted by Nicholas B.:
Hello everyone,
I took a little trip yesterday to highlandville, mo, me and my friend were intrested in what we would get from a superchip, or anyother chip out there, because at that shop there is one friggen kool dyno, Heres what he said to us, he said if you buy a chip for your car dont come back to my shop, because I dont like to see my customers waste their money, HE showed us all the print outs, on almost every car/truck(he even had a svt and a zetec contour) that put a chip on it lost 1-3 horse on the bottom end and gained 4-5 horse on top end, he said the only reason to buy one is if you want to lose your revlimter or govner of speed. He said if you want to spend that much money he told us to buy UDPulleys, or a new cam and cam gears.
I just thought I would pass this on to you CEG's, b/c I was really close to buying one, and a guy with a dyno that has done a lot of cars tells me not to Then I am not.
One more thing, I thought this was pretty cool, on average the cars/trucks with superchargers they only gained 40-50 horse, he said its not any where near what they clamied to be.
Thanks for you time, Nick
You can take this however you want, but I did belive him.
Nick
Nick,
If you ever get to St. Louis give me a shout.
The chip is nailed pretty close by your friend. You may give up a little at the bottom end for some top end performance.
The only exception I would take with that is with an automatic transaxle. Since shifting is also computer controlled, the chip can give firmer shifts. So while that may not make any more power on the dyno, it will show up on the clock.
As far as the supercharger goes.
I saw with my own eyes what Sam's SVT did in KC, before it was tuned properly. He did 250HP at the wheels, which means about 290 at the crank. I think he's pulled even more now that some of the bugs were worked out.
For comparison. My 98 SVT E0 (Sam's was also a 98 E0), put down 159.x at the wheels so right on par for the 195 at the crank SVT advertises for the first SVT Contours.
But that is peak power.
The nice thing about the supercharger is the really flat torque curve. The power isn't brute force down low, but it builds up much faster, but manageable.
HTH
TB
