My engine chipping experience so far

[krypto]

I have recently had my CHIP IT installed and custom tuned. The figures are amazing! Power increase 32.7%, Torque increase 34.1%. Drives so much better and very minimal lag from stationary.
I also found that my fuel economy according to my Scan Gauge had improved from around 10.7l/100km to 7.5l however I will wait until my next fill before getting too excited on that.

Compliments again to Robert and Chip It for the excellent service and prompt attention.

What tune level are you running?

[bfranzen]

did you do full exhaust as well?

I have recently had my CHIP IT installed and custom tuned. The figures are amazing! Power increase 32.7%, Torque increase 34.1%. Drives so much better and very minimal lag from stationary.
I also found that my fuel economy according to my Scan Gauge had improved from around 10.7l/100km to 7.5l however I will wait until my next fill before getting too excited on that.

Compliments again to Robert and Chip It for the excellent service and prompt attention.

[malenymac]

I have recently had my CHIP IT installed and custom tuned. The figures are amazing! Power increase 32.7%, Torque increase 34.1%. Drives so much better and very minimal lag from stationary.
I also found that my fuel economy according to my Scan Gauge had improved from around 10.7l/100km to 7.5l however I will wait until my next fill before getting too excited on that.

Compliments again to Robert and Chip It for the excellent service and prompt attention.

[sbclover]

At least he will have clean teeth like the Oral B man.....
Sean

[Chip It]

Lol

[REV]

and thanks for trusting us with your car CQ_Prado. I promise you will have a smile from ear to ear.

I reckon that the grin will be that big, that the top of his head will nearly fall off.

[Chip It]

and thanks for trusting us with your car CQ_Prado. I promise you will have a smile from ear to ear.

[Chip It]

thanks Sean

[sbclover]

not fuelling up till next friday but will let you know the REAL figures

Sean

[CQ_Prado]

nice short review krypto you've sold me.. Chip it it is.

[krypto]

I fitted the Chipit about 3 weeks ago and I've been running it on tune 5. I recently did a round trip north with the chip installed that I've done previously without the chip

Without chip; 1275kms using 135l = 10.6 l/100km (indicated 9.8l/100km on dash)
With chip; 1270kms using 131l = 10.3 l/100km (indicated 8.8l/100km on dash)

I drove a bit harder and a did bit more dirt work with the chip installed so I'm guessing the chip gave about 5% better fuel economy.

Observations on the ChipIt:
- Much smoother power delivery
- Noticeably better overtaking
- Makes the Prado much nicer to drive
- Gives a ridiculously low fuel consumption reading on the display, mine was already about 10% low before the chip and now its about 25% out.

Its been running trouble free with no starting problems. The only problem was that some wires were crossed on the chip harness when I first received it and which made for some terrible engine noises on the first start-up. ChipIt fixed the wiring harness and no problems since.

[DieselSmart]

good point rbet,

I always ask our customers to tell me what fuel their using by calculating as opposed to those displays on the dash. Those displays always seem to be wrong.

One of our customers had a competitors chip (for those wondering, no it was not a chip it) on his car and it was reading 7.9L per hundred but his actual fuel usage was 13.2.. Very interesting observation. Then fitting our module he went down to 11.4 but his reading on the dash went up to 9.8 or something along those lines.

[rbert]

sbclover
The better fuel consumption on your 1200km trip was that based on actual fuel used or what the dash display was telling you.

Since fitting the chip on mine I got sucked into thinking my fuel economy was better as the reading from the dash display tells me i'm getting 7.7l/100 where my actual fuel usage is 9.9lt/100. The reading before fitting chip would display 9.2lt/100

I found that the higher the tune I tried the better the fuel economy shown on the dash display

[Chip It]

they do come in a weather proof zippy bag but the one you are talking about is for the next model. Not finished yet. Still a while to go

[berniebgf]

I recall discussions about ChipIT new packaging (more water proofing), has this happened yet?

bernie