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Old Mar 3, 2013 | 07:28 AM
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Whats going on guys, i have a quick question, i have a 1997 honda accord ex v6 and wanted to put a chip in, i need help in deciding which brand is the best because i dont want to put anything in my car to mess up the cpu. Thanks and i appreciate the feed back
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Old Mar 3, 2013 | 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Kevin2890
Whats going on guys, i have a quick question, i have a 1997 honda accord ex v6 and wanted to put a chip in, i need help in deciding which brand is the best because i dont want to put anything in my car to mess up the cpu. Thanks and i appreciate the feed back
There really aren't any chips that will do you any good, at least nothing you will feel. At least not for our cars, you could try getting a chipped ECU with a stock basemap (I presume your car is stock).
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Old Mar 3, 2013 | 01:26 PM
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These plug and play chips that are being advertised are worthless.

Where you are running a V6... There aren't any OEM V6 ECU's that can be chipped and tuned. You will require an aftermarket engine management system/ ECU.
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Old Mar 3, 2013 | 01:37 PM
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For any safe performance gains your car would have to be tuned. If your ecu can't be chipped it's best to stay stock.
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Old Mar 3, 2013 | 01:58 PM
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Originally Posted by redhatch 1964
For any safe performance gains your car would have to be tuned. If your ecu can't be chipped it's best to stay stock.
That's somewhat silly reasoning. I don't know of many OBDII Honda ECU's that can be tuned, there's no reason a '96 Accord should stay 'stock' because of it.

Downgrading to OBDI isn't too difficult and opens up the availability of using OBDI chipped and tunable ECU's
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Old Mar 3, 2013 | 02:49 PM
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Originally Posted by NZXTInerTia
There really aren't any chips that will do you any good, at least nothing you will feel. At least not for our cars, you could try getting a chipped ECU with a stock basemap (I presume your car is stock).
Thanks for the input, knowing that i'll probably keep it stock
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Old Mar 3, 2013 | 02:51 PM
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Originally Posted by redhatch 1964
For any safe performance gains your car would have to be tuned. If your ecu can't be chipped it's best to stay stock.
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