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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Elite Pete on 27 January 2007, 18:25:34
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Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.
The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car :y :y :y :y
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How Much? How easy to fit?
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Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.
The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car :y :y :y :y
Only good for pre facelift?
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I paid £125 but that was in the sale which ended on the 15th of January but the normal price is £150 and it took about 10 minutes to fit and you just take the ECU out of the fuse/relay box at the side of the battery, undo the cable clip and disconnect the cable, prise back the cover tags and pull the chip out and push the new one in and reverse the process to put everything back.
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Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.
The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car :y :y :y :y
Only good for pre facelift?
Yes I can confirm this I Have already e-mailed MTEK last year about, and none for facelifts.
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Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.
The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car :y :y :y :y
Only good for pre facelift?
Should be good for yours STMO, yours is a 2.5 so same engine as pre-facelift.
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Yep, has to be said, they are well worth the money. :)
I am getting one for the MV6 once little things like the MOT are out the way! ;)
I am going to be very interested to see what effect they have with a manual box! :D
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Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.
The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car :y :y :y :y
Only good for pre facelift?
Yes I can confirm this I Have already e-mailed MTEK last year about, and none for facelifts.
Not quite correct mate, chips are available for ANY Omega with the following engines:
2.5 / 3.0
Not available for:
2.0 / 2.2 / 2.6 / 3.2
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Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.
The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car :y :y :y :y
Only good for pre facelift?
Yes I can confirm this I Have already e-mailed MTEK last year about, and none for facelifts.
Not quite correct mate, chips are available for ANY Omega with the following engines:
2.5 / 3.0
Not available for:
2.0 / 2.2 / 2.6 / 3.2
Mine is 2.6, stand corected :y
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Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.
The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car :y :y :y :y
Only good for pre facelift?
Should be good for yours STMO, yours is a 2.5 so same engine as pre-facelift.
Thanks Tunnie. I might just treat myself, esp now that Pete has said how easy they sre to fit :y
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Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.
The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car :y :y :y :y
Only good for pre facelift?
Yes I can confirm this I Have already e-mailed MTEK last year about, and none for facelifts.
Not quite correct mate, chips are available for ANY Omega with the following engines:
2.5 / 3.0
Not available for:
2.0 / 2.2 / 2.6 / 3.2
Mine is 2.6, stand corected :y
Its something to do with the newer engines which makes them much less 'chip able' i think Vaux got the most out of them really (2.2 2.6 3.2) although i think this is one for MarksDTM to reply to really...
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Well, fitted the chip this afternoon and all I can say is BUY ONE.
The car feels so much quicker off the mark and the traction control is having to work hard infact ive got face ache from smiling so much even the wife asked what have you done to the car :y :y :y :y
Only good for pre facelift?
Should be good for yours STMO, yours is a 2.5 so same engine as pre-facelift.
Thanks Tunnie. I might just treat myself, esp now that Pete has said how easy they sre to fit :y
No problem, i am condering chipping the Senator too, although I need to de-cat it for that :-/
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Tunnie, you don't need to de-cat the Senator to chip it. We didn't and the difference was impressive (especially over 4krpm!)
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Tunnie, you don't need to de-cat the Senator to chip it. We didn't and the difference was impressive (especially over 4krpm!)
I thought the chips where designed to run without the cats?
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Its something to do with the newer engines which makes them much less 'chip able' i think Vaux got the most out of them really (2.2 2.6 3.2) although i think this is one for MarksDTM to reply to really...
It's probably more to do with the newer chips being surface mounted rather than socketed, as it's more reliable and cheaper to manufacture. It will have a flashable EEPROM instead that can probably be reprogrammed through the diag socket. So just as "chippable", except you don't do it with a chip ;). In addition to having the appropriate hardware to do remaps, there are almost certainly some additional obstacles to overcome such as checksums etc. Hence why it's much more common to find replacement chips for socketed ECUs than remaps for EEPROM ones.
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Its something to do with the newer engines which makes them much less 'chip able' i think Vaux got the most out of them really (2.2 2.6 3.2) although i think this is one for MarksDTM to reply to really...
It's probably more to do with the newer chips being surface mounted rather than socketed, as it's more reliable and cheaper to manufacture. It will have a flashable EEPROM instead that can probably be reprogrammed through the diag socket. So just as "chippable", except you don't do it with a chip ;). In addition to having the appropriate hardware to do remaps, there are almost certainly some additional obstacles to overcome such as checksums etc. Hence why it's much more common to find replacement chips for socketed ECUs than remaps for EEPROM ones.
Exactly what i said, 'less chip able' ;) ;D ;D
Cheers for that Paul, you chipped yours?
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I thought the chips where designed to run without the cats?
They are. For maximum effect get rid of the cats, but there will be an improvement even if you don't remove them.
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Hi Pete,
We're glad you like the chip :D
I need to ask you a favour - will drop you a PM :y
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Does anyone know if there are insurance implications in fitting these chip? I was always lead to believe that if a car was modded in any way, you have to notify your insurer otherwise your cover might be void. :-?
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Does anyone know if there are insurance implications in fitting these chip? I was always lead to believe that if a car was modded in any way, you have to notify your insurer otherwise your cover might be void. :-?
By law you should notify your insurance company of any modifications to your car.
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I suppose to be by the book you should tell your insurance but I haven't and it only takes 10 minutes to change it back to the original chip;)
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This sounds like a plan .. in the not too distant future 8-)
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Exactly what i said, 'less chip able' ;) ;D ;D
Cheers for that Paul, you chipped yours?
Not yet. I've thought about it cos it would be nice to have some extra poke but I'm not sure how it would fit in with the dual-fuel system. I think with that being a sequential gas injection system it probably piggybacks on the main ECU for the injection timings etc, and I really don't know enough about it all to know how a chip will affect things. One thing though is that it's almost certainly advancing the ignition timing which works quite well on dual-fuel cars due to the much higher octane rating of propane (around 110 IIRC!). So I dunno, might be worth a try.
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someone on here runs a dual fuel system and one of our chips.
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Is it an SGI system? It makes a big difference as the older systems don't rely on the main ECU for fuelling, they just have a simple closed loop system running off the lambda sensors (or more likely just one lambda sensor with the hasty assumption that both banks are the same, they can't adjust fuelling for individual banks anyway).
It would be interesting to discuss the results with said member if it is an SGI system they're running.