wild chip

[diamondblacke28]

hello.

i am considering buying a wild chip from the e30zone shop for my 1989 diamond black 325i coupe,manual.

is there any one thats purchased the chip.

what do you think.

what improvement in performance did you get.

have you had it on a dyno, if so what bhp/torque gains.

thanks for any replys.

[ianeire]

I had one on the last sport and it improved throttle response, not by much, but noticable to me anyway. Also raised the rev limit a bit.

[Cotty]

I have the mild chip as I have an auto, been rolling roaded before and will be doing a after session in october.

Even the mild chip improves the midrange power

[diamondblacke28]

come on lads.

any more replys.

i want some opinions please.

[Herrity]

Cotty180, why did you pick mild and not wild for your auto ?

[pnd]

I've got to be honest I dont really rate the wild chip for the post facelift cars I had one for an early car and it was a big improvement but on the later car not a lot of change as it seemed to me. I have heard from people who do bespoke remapping that these cars dont give a lot even with hours orf dyno time to get the chip spot on. I hope my experience is not typical.

[doughboy]

I've got the wild fitted along with the bigger bore throttle body...

There's a definite increase around 4k or so..

I fitted the TB before the chip so can't comment on the chip alone.

[diamondblacke28]

pnd are you shaw the later car was'nt already remapped or chip changed.

you prob would have noticed if the ecu had been opened up before.
but you would'nt have nown if it had been remapped

[pnd]

Diamond black Iam damm near certain it was unaltered given the state/history of the car and the ecu looked untouched. I'm not trying to run down these chips as I said the first one I had was good just airing my experience. Really this is one for Ant to comment on as he makes the chips and will know how they perform on a variety of different cars.

[diamondblacke28]

pnd i wasnt picking at what you said mate.
i was just wonder weather you had considered what i said.

diamond black

[Ant]

Hmm, almost negative feedback on a wild chip, new one on me

I have had two occasions where the new chip did not alter any settings within the ECU, this I can only assume was caused by the ECU itself having a permemnt "memory" of the original map , and as such even though new sooftware was added ( chip) the ECU would not " look " at that data and carry that accross into volatile memory, swopping ECU for another with the same chip did alter the characteristics, 380's are worse for some reason.

anyone with a chip issue should contact me directly, contact detail are sent with every one( yep, that slip you all binned )

HTH

[graham_cab]

Ant I have a 380 ECU why are they harder to chip? The reason I'm asking is I had my car chipped at gaydon and it went wrong after 5 days, is this common?

[Cotty]

Cotty180, why did you pick mild and not wild for your auto ?

I was told it would suit the auto better, I wanted midrange grunt which it does very well. See three cars on a straight road, lead foot goes down and its . Ant can why its better suited

anyone with a chip issue should contact me directly, contact detail are sent with every one( yep, that slip you all binned )

I framed mine , not really it went into my 12" thick history file

[diamondblacke28]

Ant

i will have to check my ecu before i buy the chip.

my car is a 1989 325ise manual.

if it were to be the 380 ecu what ecu could i replace it with?

[Ant]

I had my car chipped at gaydon and it went wrong after 5 days, is this common?

nope, the software change should not have any adverse effects.

who did the chipping ? you were aware the zone chips were available on the day ?

380 ECU's were an update on the 173, same basic unit with some changes to protect the Idle control valve control circuit, strangly never had a duff 173, but thrown many 380's in the skip

[Speedtouch]

Recently fitted a mild ('driveability upgrade') chip in my facelift '88 325iSE (with 173 ECU) - it gave a major improvement in overall torque, with noticeably more shove at low revs; it brought my 0-60 time down from 7.3 to 6.7 sec! Makes the car more easy-going and flexible for normal driving - not quite so all or nothing as before. It idles smoother; with the standard chip it kangaroo'd a bit from cold starts. Rev limit is raised from the standard 6,250 up to around 6,950 so you can really make the engine wail if you want Economy is slightly improved overall, and the car passed the MOT without any emissions issues. Only other engine mod on mine is a K&N air filter element. Overall, I'm well impressed

[Steviec]

380 ECU's were an update on the 173, same basic unit with some changes to protect the Idle control valve control circuit, strangly never had a duff 173, but thrown many 380's in the skip

That explains a few things, although when I fitted my wild chip in my 380 ECU I thought it made a bit of a difference, I was never over impressed and the car would sometimes stutter (id stick my toe down the revs would start to pick up then... nothing, as if someone had switched the ignition off, then all would be fine again?!). I thought I was just expecting too much from a £60 mod and put it down to that, however, I now have a 173 ECU with a superchip and the difference is amazing.

It would be very interesting to try a wild chip in the 173 ECU to see if it was the ECU at fault.

[oguz327]

I had a zone wild chip fitted in my pre face lift 325 early in the new year and have never looked back.
Made quite a big difference, flat spots gone, higher rev limit, more crisp response and good fuel consumption.
Would recomend this and a bbtb any day

I never had my sport dyno'd before hand and still havnt been to a RR but i recon there were deffo gains.

[garyp_E30_325i]

I've just fitted a Wild Chip to my car, been in ~1 1/2 weeks, noticeably better throttle response (I also have a BBTB, 273cam, 6-branch, PBV, lightened flywheel...), slightly improved midrange, rev limiter increased to 6900~7000 (can't quite tell which though it's a pity it's not the 7200 I had asked for). Haven't had her on a RR yet, but will do once I've got the BMC CDA fitted