Gstar chips ????????

[bulk66]

Hi any one had one of the gstar chips are they any good and are they easy to fit......

[takethefifth]

Haha co-incidence! I fitted one yesterday.... The trickiest part of fitting was getting the screws out of the ecu. Its easy enough to take out but mine was a sod to open as all the screws and rusted into place. One was drilled out and the head snapped off another. Be careful getting the old chip out though, its very easy to scratch the board or hurt a resistor. 

I may have gotten the wrong one unfortunately, this one was for the Bosch ecu. I thought there was only bosch but apparently after taking it off mine is a T/A ecu.

Put the chip in and my car suffered, felt rich and boggy and ilde was all over the shop. When i was i driving i got done by a saxo!!!  :embarassed: Sooo ashamed! Anyway swapped back to the original tonight and its loads better again. that saxo would have gotten a piece i tell you....

So i have emailed the man asked about the difference in ECUs and anything else i might have missed and will withhold judgement until i have had chance to chat to him about it.

[shaft69]

How much was the chip?

[takethefifth]

£35 - worth a gamble!

[...joe]

i've got one and its wicked, sorted out a few fuelling problems so i'm more than happy with it.

tt5th, you might have to clear your ecu after installing the chip. i wouldn't write it off just yet.

[takethefifth]

Yeh giving it the benefit of the doubt for now thinking theres probably something i haven't done.

I did the old remove blue temp sensor, block pcv pipe and rev above 3000 3 times thing but it didn't seem to make any difference.

Did yours just drop in and work straight away? And did you notice if your ecu had a Bosch sticker on it?

 

[...joe]

mine is definately a bosch ecu, if you have a read of the last few entries in my project section it explains all about my 'chip' findings. i had a knackered ecu originally (a bosch one) and i got a triumph/adler (what you have) as a replacement but opened it up and it was nothing like the bosch one. so i got another bosch one and it was fine, dropped straight in and needed no adjustment really but i gave it a few tweaks anyway.
on the triumph/adler one i wasn't sure which chip to replace as there are two identical looking ones. it might be that you replaced the wrong one....?

[takethefifth]

Hey Joe, definately replaced the right chip and put it in the right way round.  My ecu was very similar inside to how the bosch one on the fitting instructions looked. Given that it stated in big letters "FOR BOSCH ECU" I am thinking its the wrong one!  Ah well, you live you learn as they say..... 
Cheers.
John.

[shaft69]

I've got superchip not fitted it yet.Some say the chips aren't any good with modified engines as mine is. Any of your car engines modded?

[...joe]

yeah mine is modded, which is why the chip has helped out. my idle was a bit erratic due to a lairy cam and on the rolling road my fueling graph was all over the place, so this has sorted things out. i get a much smoother power delivery now.