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I have a '99 SE and just installed an open air intake and plan on adding an SVT exhaust with the resonator replaced with a Magnaflow. That's the only mods I am planning for this car which has 105k miles.
After that, should I bother getting a chip or no?
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I would get a chip or X-Cal 2, but make sure your getting it from a reputable company that knows what they are doing like brenspeed.com. If you can, put it on a dyno and get a tune. Thats the best way to do it.
Jim Hahn
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Jim, you beat me to it 
Don't chip the car. Tune it on a dyno. It would be like playing video games on an NES cartridge vs. downloading it
Just be absolutely sure that's all you're doing to your car, so you don't have to retune later and compensate for new mods..
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If you're planning to do that, then get on a dyno and get a guy to tune it well. Your total cost for all of this should be around $700 to $800 including dyno time  .
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Originally posted by m4gician:
If you're planning to do that, then get on a dyno and get a guy to tune it well. Your total cost for all of this should be around $700 to $800 including dyno time .
It shouldnt be quite that expensive. With a naturally aspirated engine, it should only take about 5 pulls at the most and should go much quicker than a forced induction setup. My first dyno tune from SCT was a flat rate of $500 and $200 for each additional tune. That included dyno time.
Jim Hahn
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On a similar note, didn't buckshot show a gain of ~15hp with an svt chip on a stock SE? Is there any way to get a chip with a similar tune to a stock svt chip so that you dont have to deal with all that PATS business?
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Originally posted by hotdimmes:
On a similar note, didn't buckshot show a gain of ~15hp with an svt chip on a stock SE? Is there any way to get a chip with a similar tune to a stock svt chip so that you dont have to deal with all that PATS business?
That was cardoc over on FCO. It did gain something like 15 whp. However, the car was running downright awful with the stock programming. The graph looked nasty. The svt pcm did seem to clean things up but Im sure results will vary depending how the car is running to begin with. Id say if the car is running like it should with the stock pcm, then only about a few whp would be gained. Long story short, the stock svt pcm tune is far from perfect.
Jim Hahn
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3.0L swap and Arizona Dyno Chip Turbo Kit
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I have a 99se as well and have the open intake and catback with a small magnaflow res. I put a superchip and and I noticed a difference. I also noticed a difference after I put about 1k miles on it. It started to run rough and had trouble ideling. Take it off and runs good again. I can't keep it on for more then 600-1k miles at a time.
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Originally posted by Troy00690:
I have a 99se as well and have the open intake and catback with a small magnaflow res. I put a superchip and and I noticed a difference. I also noticed a difference after I put about 1k miles on it. It started to run rough and had trouble ideling. Take it off and runs good again. I can't keep it on for more then 600-1k miles at a time.
That's pretty disconcerting.
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