Thread: Jdm stage 3

Is the jdm stage 3 chip worth the money? I have a friend who is offering me one for a hundred dollars.

Would it be worth 50?

So basically it's a little box of horse crap?

Alright thanks

Sounds like your friend got took and is now trying to take you to get some of his money back.

Are there any decent plug and play programmers for under 200?

Originally Posted by GTPgasm

Are there any decent plug and play programmers for under 200?

I don't know exactly why, but there are NO chips for any 3800's that work. Period.

Originally Posted by darkhorizon

Jet had one years ago.. it bumped shift pressure and did a few other random and probably pointless things but it did what it advertised

Not really. It installed between the ECU and the harness and just modified signals going to the ECU to fool the computer into reacting differently. SCT (Superchips) and other tuners plug into the ODBII port and actually modified the how the data is used like HPT or DHP does, but only with a few predetermined tunes instead of full control.

Originally Posted by industrialfish

Not really. It installed between the ECU and the harness and just modified signals going to the ECU to fool the computer into reacting differently. SCT (Superchips) and other tuners plug into the ODBII port and actually modified the how the data is used like HPT or DHP does, but only with a few predetermined tunes instead of full control.

That sounds a lot like the "Venom chip" or whatever that a few people were putting into their 3000GT's/Stealth's. All it did was trick the ECU into thinking you were giving it more throttle than you actually were. IE at 25% throttle the ECU now read 50% throttle, or at 75% throttle the ECU read 100%/WOT (not sure on how much it actually affected it, just an example)

There were several people that tried to say it made their car faster, even after trying to explain that all it did was waste fuel, and that you can't go more than 100% throttle. LOL

nope you need a tune not a chip. chips are for rice

Yup not much of a friends he's trying to get over on you. No those stupid ass chips don't work for our cars with have a PCM.

Alright thanks again guys.

shoulda known right off our cars arent jdm at all lol