Chipped ECU's off Ebay

Sup yall, just thought id drop a line on a little info i have here about Ebay ECU’s with so called " Aftermarket Chips".

I purchased a Chipped p28 off of ebay a while back for my lsvtec i was building. It came with 2 chips, a skunk2 chip, and a mugen chip.

They were garbage. The Skunk2 chip moved the redline to 8,800 and kicked vtec engagement to 4800. There was a noticeable differnce in high end power, but the car ran EXTREMLEY rich, i mean BAD, plus the vtec engagement was so early and it was just horrible, the kick in was soo abrubt, and it felt like crap.

The mugen chip raised vtec from 5500( roughly stock) to about 6,600 and moved the redline to 10,000. It wouldnt even run properly, it spit and sputtered like crazy.

The ECU, however, is in perfect working condition, and thats really all i payed for in the end.

Ive searched thru a few forums here and there, and havent really had a good HIT on what i just covered here, i had to piece all my info together to give a good review.

My advice, is go thru a company DEDICATED to working and programming ECU’s to your exact specs. or a VFAC 8P.

But anyhow, hope this helps some of you out, that ebay shit is just a scam, your only paying for the ecu really, and thats it.

P.S. Back to my P61 untill i can send it out for the real deal.

good to know. thanks

how much did u end up paying for it though?

Someone else I know bought a so-called ‘chip’ off eBay, and when he installed it, it didn’t start.

After removing the chip, and installing the stock one back in; his car would idle erratically, and now wouldn’t allow revving past 3000rpm.

He ended up needing a new 90 ECU…

The ecu and chip came together as a combo type deal.
The ECU itself is in great shape, but the program on those chips is GARBAGE.

Its pretty much nothing but excecssive gas , and it smells SO horrible and runs like SHIT.

I took it out, put the old p61 back in, and now i run just fine.

Was like 120.00$

The ECU comes with a sticker on it from the actual company that made the chips, its www.vtecrom.com

Hmm… its looks like vtecrom.com is total bullshit seeing as they could not even pay for the website traffic… da da dumb…

http://www.phearable.net/chippedecus.html
I like what they have to offer.

those chips wont work for everyones application. It even says so in the info that is given. You put one chip in 2 diffrent vehicles and they both will act to the chip diffrently. If you had a afc then that would help a little but I suggest going to a dyno and chipping it that way. I too was going to try out one of those chips but it would be a waste. I can’t get over spending 20 bucks and making decent hp.