Being an old-school type of guy, and experience in seeing electronics go "belly-up", its kind of disconcerting when you actually start thinking how much is controlled by your PCM\EEC nowadays.... I guess the "future is now"...
Anyways, the info that I'm seeing posted backs up my original idea that an aftermarket chip can certainly do more for you if you run an automatic tranny.... as much of the good stuff (but certainly not all) is removed when using a manual transmission.
I could see where a chip and some 3.73s could "wake up" an auto GT.
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