you've seen the adds on ebay for those resistor chips that add 10-15 horses. the resistor is placed on an intake sensor that fools the car to think that it is taking in colder air. this resistor chip is on 4-5 dollars on ebay. i was wondering does this work and has anyone tried it yet. please let me know cause i'm thinking about buying on and tyring it out.
here's an example of a ad http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...&rd=1


Modified by bleeedawg at 1:53 AM 11/13/2003

 

.10 for the resistor at radio shack............and no it doesn;t work.

 

[QUOTE=bleeedawg]you've seen the adds on ebay for those resistor chips that add 10-15 horses. the resistor is placed on an intake sensor that fools the car to think that it is taking in colder air. this resistor chip is on 4-5 dollars on ebay. i was wondering does this work and has anyone tried it yet. please let me know cause i'm thinking about buying on and tyring it out.
here's an example of a ad http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors...&rd=1

get it try it and let us know...there always a need for test dummiez...

 

Maybe we should make a resistor chip that fools the car into thinking it's got a turbo blowing 200psi. That should make some power! Hell, fool it into thinking it's going downhill with with a 200mph tail wind!

I'll go talk to my electrical engineering friend right now.

 

In some cases this will work in some cases no it wont. It all depends on how the vehicle was tuned from the factory. When the IAT reads colder it will add fuel and on when it reads hotter it will lean the fuel out. Some cars which can be beneficial to this are cars where the IAT is located actually in the intake manifold itself due to heat transfer from the manifold to the sensor itself. A good test of this is strap your car on a dyno remove the IAT from the manifold and plug it off do a power run did your power go up. If it did than your car can benefit from this. All of this however can be fixed with a FPR or in some circumstances Honda has tuned for this. One vehicle where you can benefit from this is in the V6 Accord. Take the sensor out of the manifold and I guarantee you will add at least 4 horsepower.