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Great comments Swordfish. I think perhaps not many of us have tried out the cheap go-fast options that are out there so can't really comment too much, hence my interest I would be quite willing to put my car up and setup a thorough chip evaluation trial and the results get published for all to see on this website and other sites, car mag's even, they would all love this sort of info since its always discussed, as you say, provided its setup properly. If some chip manufacturers were approached to see if they would like to put their chips on the line so to speak and we also line up with a local dyno company who would receive the kudos for their involvement, setup an evaluation protocol, it would resolve the impasse once and for all, eh! Its just an opinion though. A thing like this would take a bit to organise and may need a few guys with some influence to crank it up but I would put my hat in.

Ok then, now we have some comments flying in. Swordfish and I are wanting to wind up the power in our cars, in particular my sluggish Z3, I don't want to spend heaps of dollars and forever running into a dyno to keep it running right. I would like to increase the 0-100km from 8.6s to the early 7s. What is available to us ? so we look on the web and we see all these neat follow the instructions plug ins, chips, mods for the air intake, brilliant for the DIY kiwi and its all very tempting. Also I don't mind if I blow the thing up trying a few gizzmo's, its all a lot of fun but I would prefer not to do that if someone out there with a z3 has wound the power up who wouldn't mind telling me what he did. I have to 'man-up' the z3 somehow, its a chicks car.

I have seen the same article, and I was wondering the same. I've got a Z3 1.9L that is in serious need of a power lift. These chips you just follow the instructions and you've got a 40-50hp leap for a few hundred dollars, take it to a dyno and you have a grand spent already.