Author Topic: Dinan Chip? (Read 20667 times)

Seth@AR · « **Reply #15 on:** November 20, 2007, 03:39:07 PM »

Quote from: EN318isPDX;35857

You guys suck! hehe I could only imagine would i could do with race fuel out of the pump!

There are places to get it from locally...

My parents live just outside of Minneapolis and one of their local gas stations sells higher octane gas. Point is, they are around! Just not common.

Seth@AR · « **Reply #16 on:** November 20, 2007, 04:01:03 PM »

Also, I'm a big fan of Dinan chips. They certainly aren't the highest for HP gain ratings, but they always work.

ApocolypseAutoEngineering · « **Reply #17 on:** November 20, 2007, 07:34:44 PM »

Quote from: silverblades181;35868

I have the 93 Octane MarkD chip. I saw a very nice increase when I installed it but then got used to it...then I drove a stock M42...boy was it slow lol. The 91 octane chip is still a very good one.

The M42 is a high reving engine and you won't kill it at 7100rpm, mine has 244 000kms and is track driven and it sees 7100rpm very very often. On the street I'm more conservative but I still beat the shit out of it every once in a while.

Morale of the story, don't let the higher rev limiter scare you and get you to buy a more conservative chip...I think you should go with the MarkD 91 octane chip.

Where in the power band do you see most of the difference?

tony92ic · « **Reply #18 on:** November 21, 2007, 11:52:08 AM »

I'll throw it out there since no one else has mentioned it...Jim Conforti is well known in BMW circles as turning out great chips. You can get them from Turner Motorsports, Bimmerworld and a few other places. Generally slightly more aggressive than a Dinan chip, but still a safe bet. Usually run around $250.
Whatever you do - DON'T BUY A CHIP ON EBAY!!!!

Don't forget to tell us what you get and how you like it.

gearheadE30 · « **Reply #19 on:** November 21, 2007, 12:24:05 PM »

Conforti and Dinan are both good, but Mark's chip is wayyyy better. i got the 93 octane, and the power difference was amazing. I can now pull cleanly in any gear (except may 5th due to the lack of power) from 1000 RPM, where the original tuning was very roulgh that low in the rev range. The midrange is much better as well.

Shift_Now · « **Reply #20 on:** November 21, 2007, 08:32:07 PM »

Has anyone actually had any problems with the "eBay" chips? I bought one last year and I have put over 30,000 kms on with it and I have had no problems and I regularly take it to 6900 RPM. It seems to be fine and I run 91 octane Shell or Esso gas. From my understanding they were just burnt Dinan or similar tuner copies.

gearheadE30 · « **Reply #21 on:** November 22, 2007, 09:23:02 AM »

I actually had a stage 2 ebay chip in it from the previous owner, who is a bit of an ebay addict. The chip wasn't bad as far as improvements for the price go, and the low end was great. The problem is that the chip ran REALLY rich. So rich that a new set of spark plugs went in about 10k miles and the cat died in 2 years. With forced indution or something, the ebay chip might actually work pretty well.

Lukis · « **Reply #22 on:** November 22, 2007, 02:36:53 PM »

I have just put in a 93 octane mark d chip, I ran 95 octane(euro) and I now run 98 octane.
I can not with hand on my heart say that there is a difference, I belive it is, but not much.
But to rev it to 7000 makes a world of differense, and it is strong all the way.
No regrets.

Shift_Now · « **Reply #23 on:** November 22, 2007, 02:47:27 PM »

Quote from: gearheadE30;38152

I actually had a stage 2 ebay chip in it from the previous owner, who is a bit of an ebay addict. The chip wasn't bad as far as improvements for the price go, and the low end was great. The problem is that the chip ran REALLY rich. So rich that a new set of spark plugs went in about 10k miles and the cat died in 2 years. With forced indution or something, the ebay chip might actually work pretty well.

Thats probably one of my only downsides, like at idle and around town I think my car is running a tad ritch, mostly becasue tehre is always block power in my exhaust tip, but it really hasn't hurt my fuel ecconomy. But yea, for the $35 or so odd dollars I paid for the chip, it all seems to be worth it.

tony92ic · « **Reply #24 on:** November 22, 2007, 09:32:38 PM »

The problem with ebay chips is that you don't know what you are getting. Could be a great chip, could be crap. With Dinan, conforti, even independents like Mike D they have to turn out good chips because their business is dependent on it. Ebay sellers can sell and say whatever they want because there are almost no repurcussions. And with a chip unless it screws up your engine how do you know? Ship me the wrong water pump and I'll know the minute I open the box. Ship me a bogus chip and without head to head dyno testing I really don't know what I got.
A buddy of mine paid $50 for a used Dinan chip on ebay. He was disappointed that the car didn't really feel any different. When he took it out after a few months he discovered that it was really a stock chip with a dinan sticker applied to it. Of course by that time the ebay seller had disappeared (or more than likely was selling under a different user name.) Just remember ebay is a buyer beware world.

pwforprez · « **Reply #25 on:** November 26, 2007, 10:55:57 AM »

i have to get 93 octane here 89 is the next best so i dont run it. anyone know how much the markd 93 octane chip helps?

DaveM-sport · « **Reply #26 on:** November 26, 2007, 02:36:00 PM »

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=84078&highlight=chip

Abit of info on chipping the iS and what it can gain:)

jpod999 · « **Reply #27 on:** November 26, 2007, 11:55:11 PM »

Quote from: DaveM-sport;38383

http://www.e30zone.net/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=84078&highlight=chip

Abit of info on chipping the iS and what it can gain:)

"Restricted access".

pwforprez · « **Reply #28 on:** November 27, 2007, 11:15:34 AM »

copy paste my friend.. please

DaveM-sport · « **Reply #29 on:** November 27, 2007, 03:19:47 PM »

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First and foremost many thanks to Arron Green (agreen) for volunteering his low mileage 318iS for the chip testing we are carrying out here at Evolve Autmotive.

The day started with the first dyno run at just under 136 bhp which is bang on the power for one of these.

We then moved onto testing a few chips.

The first test showed an abismal gain of 4 bhp when the quoted chip should have given an amazing + 18 bhp!

Had a look at some other chips we got hold of and compared them on our program and there was little point in trying them out as the ignition timing and fuelling values were pretty much the same and in some cases exactly the same (ie: Copies).

We then went about testing two of other chips which are under the Evolve Brand that had never been tested but the feedback was very high from customers.

We do quote around 7 bhp from one of these so we didn't really expect anything more.

To our surprise the gain was just under 12 bhp.

The second more agressive chip ws a little too agressive and we decided on not dynoing it at all.

Arron was with us all of the time and we done every test in the same way with intake and ambient temps very close to each other.

Graph of Before and after with the Evolve 318iS Chip:

On the road Arron gave the same feedback as others who have used this chip - considerably better part throttle power especially at low rpms, smoother power delivery and a noticeable gain under full load driving.

I'm sure Arron will give his own comments.

taken from E30zone.net

This is a great definite answer to what a good chip does to the M42 instead of all the claims people state.

The low down torque gain is crazy