unichips? are they good?
unichips? are they good?
08-10-2004, 06:33 AM
#2
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Ontario
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Car Info: 02 wrx
Originally Posted by wrxtaxi
are they able to function well on a completley stock wrx/ are they difficult to install/ all your help would be great thanks..
UNICHIP works, but only if you can find someone to tune it for you. Do not go for cookie cutter maps.. I think that is what gave them a bad name to be honest. Mail order tuning is a very iffy concept. Nothing beats getting a custom tune, since every car is different.
08-10-2004, 11:47 AM
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I have one of the first generation Vishnu Unichips (running a custom VF-22 map) and while I have had zero probelms with it, I would not recomend a unichip to anyone right now. Very few places tune them and there are newer Engine Mangement systems with much better support out there (UTEC, AccessPort, ECUTek) that can as much and more than the Unichip can do. Even if you think you'd want to stay with an "off the shelf" map, I would recomend having your ECU re-flashed for what you want and be done with it. If your the type of person who likes to tinker with they're engine management system, go with a UTEC.
08-24-2004, 01:06 PM
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Location: Dallas/Ft. Worth, TX
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Car Info: '02 WRX wagon, COBB clubspec, ACT street clutch and flywheel
Would it be a wise investment to get rid of my unichip from my older COBB clubspec package, for a newer accessport system? I read that the unichips were tuned for that specific set of components (TBE, intake, BOV) and that it should make about 180hp. With the accessport it's not much more, but that COBB stage 2 also does not have an intake right?
-Ben
'02 WRX wagon
-Ben
'02 WRX wagon
08-24-2004, 05:26 PM
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Well i have the old school one and right now its running an sti shortblock stock wrx with no problems but thats coz i have a local tuner who does the custom tunes but ill have to agree i wouldn't recomend it to anyone right now ill be switching to aem ems
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