E30 Zone

HAS ANY ONE BROUGHT OR TRYED THE CHEAP ECU CHIPS ANY GOOD WORTH A PUNT FOR THE PRICE ???


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-E30-325i- ... 2c7105aa35

TYPING WITH CAPS LOCK MAKES YOU LOOK RETARDED!!!!

Buy a chip off speedtouch/Maurice on here, 35 quid posted and they give good noticeable gains

speedtouch is the man.

Read the ad. carefully. Read what it says, not what you want it to say.
When you've increased the capacity to 2.8, when you've fitted your camshaft upgrade and when you've fitted the tubular exhaust manifold, you might well get your 12 bhp and 11 lb ft.
A lot of these cheap chips also rely on the likely fact that they are being fitted to less than well maintained cars, whose injectors are long past their rebuild date, and whose flow rates are well down on what they should be. Simply setting the chip to produce a richer mixture than standard will crudely compensate to a degree for the worn injectors and produce an increase in power.
There are small gains to be had from a well designed 'chip' fitted to an otherwise standard engine in good condition by restricting the range of operating conditions that the car was designed to run in (are you likely to want to run your car at 20,000 ft. on 85 RON petrol?), but in general, ask yourself this question: " if it's that simple, why didn't BMW do it as standard?"