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#1 ·
What do you guys thing is the best chip you can get for a cav????
 
#8 ·
Do you do the EDS XE chips? A guy on club calibra from Norway said they definatly give a good improvement. He said they claim 15bhp at the top end with 25 bhp midrange which i think is very hard to believe. If you do stock them, how much and what gains can be got?
I find it slightly strange that you stock superchips when it is claimed by most, even on here that they do next to nothing for the XE. What is your veiw on them?
 
#9 ·
sid16v said:
Do you do the EDS XE chips? A guy on club calibra from Norway said they definatly give a good improvement. He said they claim 15bhp at the top end with 25 bhp midrange which i think is very hard to believe. If you do stock them, how much and what gains can be got?
I find it slightly strange that you stock superchips when it is claimed by most, even on here that they do next to nothing for the XE. What is your veiw on them?
I'm with you Sid. 25bhp on an XE? Takes it to 182bhp. If only.
 
#10 ·
EDS Chips

Yes, these are the ones that I sell for the XE's.

Gains are - as you say - 15BHP top end and about 25BHP throughout the drive.

Price for these is £249

I am not actually a superchip dealer, the work is sub contracted to a dealer in scotland. TBH, I don't rate them very well at all hence I try to stay with specialists.

Gavin Wallace
01467 643954
 
#12 ·
Re-phrase

I'll re-phrase that for you oddball,

The chip will give an OVERALL increase of about 25BHP throughout the rev range meaning at various positions at max load giving the overall sum an increase of about 25BHP.

Hope that explains things,

Gavin
 
#13 ·
its just a little confusing, you get more power from increasing fuel and air. a chip cant increase air, the only way it could gain anything is to optimise fuelling across the rev range. I dont see how anything could claim to do this without making it unique to each engine, in which case it has to be a "best guess"

a 40 quid fuel pressure regulator would do the same.
 
#16 ·
The later 1.8i Cavs, after 92 have the 18 CNZ engine. If there is a chip for it its probably not worth doing.
 
#19 ·
its just a little confusing, you get more power from increasing fuel and air. a chip cant increase air, the only way it could gain anything is to optimise fuelling across the rev range. I dont see how anything could claim to do this without making it unique to each engine, in which case it has to be a "best guess"
The chip also has control of spark timing, so with a high grade petrol, it's map may have slightly more ign advance.

What vinegar do they recommend you use with these chips?

I'm totally against the plug-and-play chip TBH. The cost of an EPROM is nothing, gains are v.minimal, and they still charge 200+ obsurd!

that 25bhp gain sentence is a v.poor use of English BTW!
 
#20 ·
its just a little confusing, you get more power from increasing fuel and air. a chip cant increase air, the only way it could gain anything is to optimise fuelling across the rev range. I dont see how anything could claim to do this without making it unique to each engine, in which case it has to be a "best guess"
Fuel pressure IS raised on these upgrade kits.

Gavin
 
#23 ·
Now this would be VERY interesting.

Weekenny is a knockhill regular and im sure he would let you plug a chip in for a few laps and tell you the difference. He knows how to drive so would give you goodfeedback.

Would be worth doing, i would deffo come down to be an offical iducator.
 
#24 ·
Hi,

I'm very interesting in this chip also, Gavin does that price above include the fuel pressure regulator?

Would the chip also work well with my other mods? SBD Type A Manifold, Magnex system and one day mayeb the powercap thing?

I'd like to hear the results of the feed back before I commit though!

Cheers
Garrie
 
#26 ·
I was speaking to Not Normal yesterday about a customer of V-Tuning. He had a superchip on his C20XE and changed it for an EDS chip. The owner is extremely impressed with it, even though he had already had a Superchip on it. Over standard there would be a greaterimprovment.

If I had a standard C20XE I would certainly go with this chip over any other at the moment.

It would be good to have a few other try it out though.
 
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