Anyone?? if not does anyone know of the best awd tuner in wa

 

Go see Aaron or Lucas from English Racing.

tell em Tephra sent you...

they will probably dump the zchip thou

 

My advise on the z chip is to throw it in the trash. For real.

 

what happened with that guy who advertised it as a21 century miracle?
I cant remember even his name or shop name today LOL

 

you mean Scott @ TTP.

dunno what happened to him, but I was just talking to another guy about this same question. That Z-chip always seemed like it was too good to be true. Anyone care to share the REAL story behind it and their advertised gains?

 

im sure at the time it wasn't bad.

but now the tuning community has moved on...

 

A couple years agoI dyno'd with one and made 333whp on ttps mustang dyno, then went to a dynojet and made 260 then removed the zchip and made 250... Those are facts and I am not trying to bash anyone. I believe I have the dyno charts somewhere. Oh and I forgot to add. After all that, jestr tuned my car and I couldn't have been happier.

 

i was the one that brought up in a regional thread. the zchip was one of the first things offered for the X and came before the cobb AP and before (at least in my area) many tuners were doing much tuning on the X's. i'm glad i didn't make the mistake of buying one for myself though.

TTP jammed it down the throats of forums and managed to have a daily back and forth argument with the people at cobb about how the zchip reigned supreme. i wonder if one could be found on ebay along with an original rubix cube.

 

mine is in my garage if anyone wants it.

 

you should sell it on ebay and see if you get bites on it.

in a day of fully tuneabe ecu's, 3 port, 3-4 bars and a wide aftermarket of bolt-ons the zchip is obsolete. it's probably safe to say that it was DOA given that a few months later the market really opened up for modding X's

 

if you're on the east side and can't get over to the west side, i can take care of you.

 

Did you have a V1 or V2 chip? I read that the V2 firmware was a free upgrade and was a nice improvement in performance over the first batch. I would guess that you never upgraded your chip to the latest firmware.

There are a few guys here in Deltona that got them and they all seem to be happy with their results. I drove in Evil_Evo_X's car and it definitely was a big improvement over stock. Its easy to knock it now, but back when it came out a few years ago, reflashing really wasnt available. Technology is always evolving. We see it in aircooled ceramic ball bearing turbos from PTE, speed density on factory ecus, tephramods for the X recently released. Everything has a place in time.

 

im not sure when was a time to Zchip LOL