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Jan 25, 2008 | 02:08 PM

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Unichip anyone?

Anybody running a Unichip?

How about a review?

http://www.autopartsway.ca/Acc/Parts.cfm?id=100_514

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Jan 25, 2008 | 02:10 PM

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That is not cheap...

Jan 25, 2008 | 02:21 PM

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If you go to Unichip's website they are sellig for $792.44

Funny thing is, if you check the dyno for stock & the one with the mods added to the car they are identical.

Unichip is claiming 18hp....

http://www.unichip.us/search_results...dies_model=145

Jan 25, 2008 | 02:40 PM

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.........the dyno for stock & the one with the mods added to the car they are identical.............

Things that make ya go Hhhmmmmm.....

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Jan 25, 2008 | 02:44 PM

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Insanity!

Jan 25, 2008 | 02:49 PM

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they are not that far from me. petit was going to test it with their system but never did. several people have tried it over the years. its about equal to emangle blue. maybe slightly better. i know one of the PR guys was using it some time ago. taka also used it many years ago.

not much of an alternative for na with flashing available now /soon. could be an alternative for fi- just hasn't been utilized. they DO have a nice plug and play loom

http://www.unichip.us/unichip_features.asp

unable to be tuned by the enthusiast- only be unichip retailers

Jan 25, 2008 | 02:54 PM

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their charts show gains

Jan 25, 2008 | 03:01 PM

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their charts show gains

But not from white to blue......(stock to modded)

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Jan 25, 2008 | 03:19 PM

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unable to be tuned by the enthusiast- only be unichip retailers

And that's the downfall

Jan 25, 2008 | 03:41 PM

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for $1300 it better be tunable
eghhh...

Jan 25, 2008 | 04:05 PM

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Takahashi ran one a couple of years ago. He had a good write up on it. It can be found on his website.

http://myrx8.spaces.live.com/blog/cn...D2E2!153.entry
https://www.rx8club.com/showthread.p...ad.php?t=43917

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Jan 25, 2008 | 06:31 PM

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Taka's review is from 11/2004 and there have been a few flashes to come out for our car so I wonder if the results would be better?

zoom44,

I had no idea they were next to us. Do you know of anyone local that has installed it? I'm not really interested (waiting on Cobb) but just curious.

Jan 25, 2008 | 07:13 PM

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yeah they're out in hillsboro. no one i know has installed it. although i remember that corksport installed one on their company 8. pineapple is a dealer so Rob could do the tuning. he might have done one that i dont know about