If your car is already running well, a chip probably won't give you big gains. I went through three chips and two MAF meters on FrankenRanger (see sig.) before I got it dyno tuned. My goal was to cure driveability problems with the Kenne-Bell blower, but with the chip, we were able to find an additional 96 horsepower in the truck. But without the dyno, we would not have been able to do this. My JMS chip (which I tossed) ran the truck OK, but didn't make any power I could feel.
I'm of the opinion that a chip is wasted money until you have substantial modifications that start to affect driveabililty. And at that point, you should get it tuned properly on a dyno, since it's basically shooting in the dark to try to program a chip via mail-order. For your money, there are better upgrades that will make more power.
Hope this helps.
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Matt Harwood
Harwood Performance Engineering
Cleveland, OH
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