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OK, I don't have much mechanical knowledge. So I'm going to risk bringing great shame onto my family by posing this question right into the lion's den...

Is this eBay ad for chipping an mx5 bullshit??

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/MAZDA-MX-5-P ... 234aca84cd

Thanks

YES!

Thanks Taminga. I can sleep in peace now.

If anyone else has an opinion, I'm keen to hear it.

I'll up the bidding and go with HELL YES!

A box with a couple of wires is always going to be bad news.'

Good on you for doing the "Hang on, best check this out" thing - that makes you one of the smart learner car people.

Keep this up, and you'll go far. We like people like you.

I note from the link that it also works with diesel MX-5s. That's very handy!

Most of these chips work by basically fooling the car into running a little bit richer, or advancing the timing.

They are often just a resistor, the same as is available at Jaycar for about $0.50, only they tart it up in a plug and add some dollars to the price.


Performance gains are negligible, and often it's a performance drop.

Absolutely do nothing at all.

Are you guys telling me The Energy Polariser doesn't work either?
I was sure you had to add crystals and a magnet to align the molecules of the car to make it more awesome…..

MY car could do with some more unicorns yo.

Forget this shite, all the cool kidz know that it's all about "Sticker-watts", definitely the best "bang for buck" hard-parkin' mod out there!

Ha! Thanks for your emphatic responses everyone. I might give the wonder Chip a miss! Sounds like they are right up there with Big Foot and The Lochness Monster.

Just for fun, I asked them a question. Their reply was:

"Hi
chip connects to ECU AIR sensor under the hood, usually work fine 30 hp are max all depends on engine condition and already installed mods !
thx"

The highlighted parts are mine. It obviously contains all the usual bullshitter's get-out clauses.

I'd hoped they'd put a copy of the question and the reply on eBay but, not surprisingly, the listing page still says, wrongly, that no questions have been asked.

The next question will be whether adding 10 of these will give an extra 300bhp.

Or maybe we could all just report the listing, thus saving all potential suckers some money?

davekmoore wrote:Or maybe we could all just report the listing, thus saving all potential suckers some money?

But what would you report it for?

The claim of "up to" 30hp isn't actually a lie, by fooling the ECU into thinking the incoming air is colder, or warmer, the AFRs can be slightly adjusted to be richer or leaner.

If they were not ideal from the start it could make a couple of HP (ie: mx5's are rich from factory, so running slightly leaner may make a tiny bit more power)



The claims there aren't that different to the MX5 Mania website where it used to say their intake could gain up to 15kw or something.