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be careful!
Be VERY VERY careful with performance chips. Ask if they custom make chips based on your specific car, do NOT just send in for a chip that's "calibrated to your car model's specs".
Every engine on every model car will run a little bit differently. A car running in Colorado will behave differently from a car in massachusetts, be it temperature, altitude, or humidity.
Even cars in the same area will run differently, most ecu's learn based on how the driver drives, and things like timing and fuel management vary from car to car. That's the point of an ecu, it adjusts randomly to always give the best performance and reliability.
A generically calibrated performance chip cannot gauge how your individual car performs just because it worked well with their test model. Your car should be taken into whatever chip upgrading shop you choose and be dyno tested to optimize performance.
I've read too many articles and forum posts where people have tested so called performance chips and actually found out that they LOST performance instead of gaining!
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