Tuners and/or chips for manuals?

[DieselandChrome93]

With a manual trans does a chip or tuner really do much for you? Can you chip or have a tuner on a 1995, it's a 1995 1/2? Also is one better than the other?

[Six0~Stroker]

uhh......yeah!

It adds power to your truck to make it run like a raped ape

[terryknight]

yes they still change the tuning on the engine.

[Cml390]

For a 1994 do you need the computer reflashed with the obdII compliant program before you can chip or tune it? Or does is depend on the programmer?

[terryknight]

the ts ships plug into the PCM and do not require a reflash

[Cml390]

Ok, i was leaning towards the Ts chip.

[TOW RIG]

how does the chip differ from the programmable tuner?
whats the best bang for the buck.
im looking for more low end power,
and to build boost sooner.

[Patrick Feeley]

Chips have the ability to change programs on-the-fly. Tuners usually require uploading old and downloading new for a program change. Cheers!

[atvrider93]

Chip, no question. The question is which tunes do you want and from who

[85_305]

Originally Posted by TOW RIG

how does the chip differ from the programmable tuner?
whats the best bang for the buck.
im looking for more low end power,
and to build boost sooner.

As I told you in the last thread, a 1.0 housing will start boost WAY earlier. A good chip will also toss more fuel at it earlier, causing it to boost earlier. A programmer sucks and doesn't have the power/mpg gains as a custom chip.

Originally Posted by atvrider93

Chip, no question. The question is which tunes do you want and from who

Answer: Beans tunes, then TW if you cant afford beans.