Blast from the past

[turbottime]

GNVenom the anti theft setting on your Ultrachip saved my car from being stolen in 1994, just cranked and cranked after some idiot broke the steering column. Still have the car , and the chip somewhere.

 

[Red Sector 7]

A guy once posted a neat pic of the old chips, I saved it.

 

[GNVYUS 1]

I got the Ultrachip AFTER my GN got stolen mainly because of that feature but also 8 chips in 1 was a killer idea.

The early chip days must have been really fun since the idea that anyone could open a ECU, drop in a chip and some race gas could really fly was so new. I can only imagine how many chips the average GN guy had back then, 3 seems almost too low due to the different makers and always thinking this chip will do x y etc. .

 

[GNVenom]

Back in 1991, I was running a special trade-up sale on the Ultrachip and offered a discount of $10 for each old unwanted chip sent in with the order (I think there was a limit of 4 or 5 per customer). The deal lasted for a month, I believe was the month of December.

By the time it ended, I wound up with dozens of chips, some stock, most aftermarket, and put them in a big pile. Took a picture of it. I lost the picture over time - this was before everything went digital - boy I wish I still had that image. Used it in an ad, where the Ultrachip was at the top of the heap. It was a pile about 6 in. high and about a foot in diameter!

Gee, I'll have to look to see if I still have that negative....

 

[Red Sector 7]

I got the Ultrachip AFTER my GN got stolen mainly because of that feature but also 8 chips in 1 was a killer idea.

The early chip days must have been really fun since the idea that anyone could open a ECU, drop in a chip and some race gas could really fly was so new. I can only imagine how many chips the average GN guy had back then, 3 seems almost too low due to the different makers and always thinking this chip will do x y etc. .

You can actually run really quick with the stock chip as well. We had some local guys back in the day run very quick for a stock car, I recall one guy in particular ran in the 11.90s on the stock chip with boost in the mid-20 lb range, C16 fuel, fuel pump, slicks and open dump tube. A hard launch on slicks and good 60' time makes it happen. Stock chip actually had a gnarly timing table, 22* generally speaking and upwards of 26* at the 2800 RPM torque peak of the stock engine. That's why the cars worked so well in stock form, its just a really well engineered package all around. Today's oxygenated pump gas doesn't allow that kind of timing obviously, with around 18* being optimal on 92 octane, a little more perhaps on Chevron 94. Back in the early-late 1990s a mildly modded GN was 'the' car to own and was so much fun on the good gasoline we had back then.

 

[TurboTGuy]

I had an old Eastern Performance chip in my '86 when it was stolen.

With a crushed down FPR, dump pipe, and a Spearco intercooler it ran 12.80's, pretty nice for those days.

I miss that car, the pile of headaches it was... It was just a magnet for stupid, bad stuff to happen to and for me to experience, again and again... until one day, it was just gone...

 

[JayC]

I had a lot of guys running low 10s with my chips. Might have been a couple of 9s but its been a long time so Im not 100% on that one.

 

[Chuck Leeper]

Gee, I'll have to look to see if I still have that negative....

John, that's a real "timestamp"!

 

[Red Sector 7]

I had an old Eastern Performance chip in my '86 when it was stolen.

With a crushed down FPR, dump pipe, and a Spearco intercooler it ran 12.80's, pretty nice for those days.

I miss that car, the pile of headaches it was... It was just a magnet for stupid, bad stuff to happen to and for me to experience, again and again... until one day, it was just gone...

If I'm not mistaken, Eastern used Don Kiger's chips and renamed them. Eastern's "Street Lethal" was Kiger's "GNX Hi-Flow", and the race "Blaster" chip was Kiger's "Max Overdrive" race chip. The Hi-Flow had like 26* timing and the Overdrive had 32*-34*. I used the Street Lethal myself but on Shell 92 it had audible knock even on 90's gasoline. Good fuel was the order of the day back then, as all we had at the time were stock turbos which like a lot of timing. So octane was key.