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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 09:42 AM
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these chips are all over ebay? are they safe to use or are they gonna screw the engine check it out!

cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/SPOON-Honda-Accord-LX-DX-Racing-Chip-94-95-P0B-POB-ECU_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ33597QQitemZ8013632 117

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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 09:46 AM
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stay away

stay sway
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 09:46 AM
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Yes they will f up your engine. It's a 3 ohm resistor (20 cents at RadioShack) that tricks the computer into thinking its 30 degrees outside and cause the car to run pig rich.
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 09:48 AM
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so even the P0A chips which you wire in to the computer are bad? i know there are alot of reisitors for sale and they can mess uo you engine what wha about the chips are are solde onto the ecu
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 09:50 AM
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i know the resistors are bad but what about this one

cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/94-95-Honda-Accord-EX-2-2L-Performance-P0A-ECU-Chip_W0QQitemZ8015038210QQcategoryZ33597QQssPageNa meZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 10:24 AM
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hmm.. it says it will only fit p0a computers, for both manual and automatic.. i believe p0a is a manual ecu???
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 10:52 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by darklimits &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i know the resistors are bad but what about this one

cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/94-95-Honda-Accord-EX-2-2L-Performance-P0A-ECU-Chip_W0QQitemZ8015038210QQcategoryZ33597QQssPageNa meZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem</TD></TR></TABLE>

i would still stay away from it...there is no way to tune it at all...
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 10:53 AM
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POA is the manual ECU. Those chips are not bad... I run the "Mugen" programmed chip in mine
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 10:56 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by cambopheonix56 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">hmm.. it says it will only fit p0a computers, for both manual and automatic.. i believe p0a is a manual ecu???</TD></TR></TABLE>


they are the same ecu, it may say for AT or MT but you can use ethier ecu in the car. what they use that is diff is AT cars have a ATCS, auto trans controll sys it looks like the ecu but smaller
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 10:58 AM
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if you want to chip the accord buy a 92-95 civic si ecu and have it rechipped

you can check out accordinglydone.com for more info
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 11:00 AM
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<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by THEROPE &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">if you want to chip the accord buy a 92-95 civic si ecu and have it rechipped

you can check out accordinglydone.com for more info</TD></TR></TABLE>

Better site to learn about tuning... http://www.pgmfi.org
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Old Nov 15, 2005 | 11:05 AM
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there are so many chips out there like this one

cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/SPOON-Honda-Chip-94-95-Accord-LX-P0B-ecu_W0QQitemZ8013233683QQcategoryZ33597QQrdZ1QQcmd ZViewItem

but which one would be teh rest to get most performance without messing the engine plus i don't have alot of cash either
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