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Old 12-31-2010, 09:02 AM
Christian Vance Christian Vance is offline
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Default Need advice for a Performance Chip!...

I have a 2003 4.0. Looking for a good quality chip that is not too expensive. Has anybody gotten one? Nice improvement? Or not worth it? I appreciate anybody's feed back
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Old 12-31-2010, 10:05 AM
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Default Re: Need advice for a Performance Chip!...

Most mods that promise "plug and play" enhancements are a rip off, including chips. To get any real performance improvements on any engine, you have to spend some real money and put some labor into removing, modifying, and installing parts. Most modifications would be to the heads and crank case, then you could start looking at intakes and exhausts. That is when parts like intakes and exhausts start to show their real potential.
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Old 12-31-2010, 04:51 PM
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Default Re: Need advice for a Performance Chip!...

I just got a jet performance tuner where it actually changes shift timings and stuff like that and it dropped my 0-60 2 seconds so im really happy it also has a scanner on it to check for trouble codes. My recomendation by far. But like the above post said othr nods before this will help pull out more power
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