GorillaCHIPZ Horsepower Enhancer performance chip

[Crucifix]

Anybody try this chip? They are caliming a 40 Horsepower increase. Bogus if you ask me.

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Peter

 

[SPANISHVETTS]

I haven’t tried this one or any of the other super chips but you can bet your booties that the 40HP gain is bogus. If a bit of silicon could give you 40 ponies GM would have offered it as a $1500 option.:L

Until you do some serious mods there is no reason to change the chip. The stock one will work ok with headers a mild cam and cleaned up intake. After that you need a new chip and again the super chips are worthless. You need a custom chip burnt for your setup. I do not know anybody who was lucky enough to get a chip burnt right the first time either. It took 3 times to get Thunder’s right.:W

 

[Hrtbeat1]

It took 3 times to get Thunder’s right.:W

ONLY 3 .... WOW that is some tuner you have. I would be proud of that. The ones I've done have been upwards of 30 to get close. Of course I only change one thing at a time.

My TPIS chip felt like 50 seat of the pants HP, not very accurate, but better than stock for sure. I had to modify some of the settings on it also ... it was running super rich.

 

[SPANISHVETTS]

ONLY 3 .... WOW that is some tuner you have. I would be proud of that. The ones I've done have been upwards of 30 to get close. Of course I only change one thing at a time.

My TPIS chip felt like 50 seat of the pants HP, not very accurate, but better than stock for sure. I had to modify some of the settings on it also ... it was running super rich.

Frankie has been building SBCs for over 25 years and Thunder’s 383 is pretty much his off the shelf motor so he had a head start on the first burn. After that it was just logging data and tweaking.

The only thing that could be improved now is the closed-loop Temp. This was Frankie’s first time with Evans Waterless Coolant… nobody will believe that it takes a Vette 20 min. in 90º weather to come up to operating temperature so on short trips the beast stays in open-loop and burns lots of gas. I would like to see closed-loop kick in at 130º but the motor might not be hot enough to support it. I guess that I have the only frigid C4 on the road.

 

[maxrevs85]

I havent tried it yet , but I heard the heated O2 senser will help getting into closed loop quicker. Is that true or :confused ?