bathspray

I have a 1995 Sti V2 Impreza

Can anyone tell me if a chip off a 1996 Sti, will be suitable for my 1995.

Apparently the chip plugs into the spare socket in your ecu and remaps the fueling,ignition,boost,speed limiter and allows the use of superunleaded without octane booster.it raises boost to 1.1 bar and remaps everything to suit. A guy called .scott at polar performance helped develope these chips.

Cheers all


Neil

mean machine

hi neil as long as your ecu as the spare socket to put the chip on to it should be ok

Tidgy

wouldn't use generic maps if you paid. none of the top tuners use them.

dan83590

Here we go again.!!

Some chips are better than others, you get what you pay for. Don't be put off by the 'All chips will kill you' clan. Top tuners probably don't use them because they want to fine tune each component or upgrade and they wouldn't be a tuner if they just plugged in a chip would they!

For the road, some of the chips on the market are great. But if you are racing around a track all day then you will want to look at something different.

Bloody mapping snobbery!

the invisible dog

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Has your ECU already got the spare socket fitted?
Get in contact with Scott, he's on here or at PolarPerformance.co.uk
Bought one from him last year and he was great helping me with the socket and fitting, and it is working fine

mit

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Hi, i've got a chip supplied by scott at polar performance.And it's one of the best you can buy from the plug and play range. He's very helpfull,and a member on hear,so look him up and ask him.He does all the maps to each model.

Mit

mit

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Two answers in the same minute! damn you invisible dog!

Tidgy

y is it snobery?

i know several tuning companies who fit generic maps to most cars, they can map 20-30 evo's in a day if they want to. But when it comes to scoobs they wont do it, they custom map each one. i've seen identicle maps run on same spec cars and run different results and in some cases dangerous fueling.

you pays your money you takes your risk, but i stand by the comment top tuners wont do it.

financialy it makes more sence to use generic maps but they don't, costs couple of grand max to make a good one, then £200 pr car, do 50 cars and you've made a fortune. there isn't a huge proffit to be made in custom mapping unlike generic

dan83590

Like I say, here we go again..

myblackwrx

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Fight ,fight

To the OP what do you want to do to your car?

A simple power hike or more mods (bigger turbo,fmic,etc)?

The modding bug on these cars is quite hard to resist so a standalone chip will be of no use to you as it's limited whereas a fully remappable solution gives you a lot more scope of further mods.

i was going down the 'more power' route but have decided to go down the 'improve the handling' route to get the most out of the power i have at the moment.

Tidgy

pmsl, i think we'll all agree that you can never go to far

jd5217

whats to far?

NUTTYNICK

There are good number of people who use these Polar Performance chips. I bought one second hand and have had no problems at all, very happy in fact. I did however, do a fair bit of research on here first.

Beware of copies from Ebay, some may be fine, others are blatantly wrong. Do some research and then ask lots of questions.

I fitted mine to a MY95 wrx that had the Z4 ECU fitted as standard, which is deemed pretty good as early ECU's go. I still noticed subtle differences in driving, fuel economy and top end power.

As a cheaper method of ecu upgrade prior to all out ECU mapping, I'm pretty pleased with this. The chips map was set up for a basic exhaust and intake mod, and is also set up for specific models of impreza.

mit

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And £125 instead of a £700 ecu swop and map,it's a good starting point untill you know what you want from your car.Good chance you could sell it later too.

Mit

myblackwrx

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Definately

Glowplug

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Got 1 fitted in a Z5 on MY93 WRX, fueling, boosting no probs, very happy. Thanx Scott