I do a lot of Ks so I really do have a good feel for how my Tri goes but how I may explain it will be a bit different. So I have lived with the (EDITED – THE OTHER BRAND) since about the 18,000k mark and hated driving the car when I had to remove it for service reasons. So I am a fan, oooops, I mean was a fan . I got my Chip It package today and hurried home to open it up: 1 heavy black box, noticeably heavier than (THE OTHER BRAND and a fair bit of connectors – 1 for common rail, 1 for map sensor and 1 for power and earth. Basically, I have this pretty down pat because of the (THE OTHER BRAND) and had the Chip It Module installed in under 5 minutes, I spent more time coiling up the extra cable which I have no idea what to do with now than anything else. I have not installed the map sensor and am unsure if I ever will. Turned the car “on” and saw that I successfully had a red flashing light, awesome. I know I know, you think I am dawdling here, don’t care, I am tired OK . So I started up the Tri and backed her out of the driveway, hmmmm, can’t be. Did I push the accelerator a bit too much in angst? Hmmmmm. I backed around and pointed the Tri up the hill of my street and seen that the street was clear so I give the throttle a squirt just as I do every other day and “woofter”, the Mickey Ts are individually picking rocks out of the tar like nothing else. This is wrong, I know it! So I stopped and tried this again, this thing absolutely leaps off the line, talk about push you back, is this torque or what? The Turbo has just leapt into life with no hesitation whatsoever. Before, if I wanted to get off the line this quick I would have to ride the brake and time it good, now I can’t wait to get to the lights to test this thing out (Jeremy, James and Richard – “thou shall never drive slow” ). This is a bloody Auto mind ya. This ain’t right! This is not suppose to be … and 265 tyres too. I had to drive into town on 60k to 80k roads this arvo. A few sets of lights on the way so a bit of stop/start. Well I laughed, and my son says to me as we are going to soccer practise “Dad, what you laughin’ at?” I says “You know that this is the fastest Tri around” He goes: “Huh, whatever” and I go “feel this”, I plants my foot and the thing just instantly leaps forward, revs hard and you feel the torque/power/turbo. I have no friggin’ idea what’s in this Diesel chip… just moves this Tri along like never before. Seriously, I had a Territory with 6spd box which flew before this, I sold it because I needed to slow down, it did not have the punch that this has got. I am sure it is the torque. It’s like a 450 four stroke dirt bike compared to my revy 250cc. Everything “Sierra” has been saying about his Triton with the Chip It Module in his is true. Just one thing though, he does not want to come up against a 3.2 with Chip It! I can honestly say I think that even though I would’ve loved a manual again, now I don’t because in a manual with this thing you would be changing gears too quickly. It suits the auto perfectly I reckon, the auto has changed characteristics, it is not sluggish anymore, the Tri just punches through the changes. What’s is going on here? I have no idea, seriously either I have a faulty (THE OTHER BRAND) Chip or this is exactly what Chip It say it is, with no crap glossing over stuff. One thing I do need to do is sell my (EDITED) sticker as I think I am going to give the site a bad rep around Newcastle, or I might call it (EDITED) Hoon.com. I seriously wish I had some 0-100km times up my sleeve to compare to, because I reckon it will be “seconds” quicker. I also have no doubt that this thing will leave any Navara, Ranger, BT50 manual or auto for dead. I have no doubt about this. Diesels just aren’t suppose to drive this way. I will report back on the “race” results as they come in. Economy wise, I have filled the tank up and will see what happens, my only problem is I will be secretly egging people on to see who I can bait for a drag. Hmmmm I think I might go and get one of those Transformer badges for the back now, ….. and a sticker that says, ” sit down, shut up and hang on” . I am tired and excited at the same time, hence my rambling. I will calm down over the upcoming months I think thou, so that should be good. I just have these weird scenarios going through my head – about to snatch a vehicle out of a bog and the Tri rips off the frontend of the other vehicle, do I need to have to upgrade my 3rd party insurance or do I just refuse to recover any other vehicles! Do I have concerns? “yes”, can the drive-train/transmission handle this much torque. I have no doubt this has 150+kw and 500+ torque. Do I have concerns that I may not sell my (THE OTHER BRAND) Chip on eBay for a good price? “No”, unless they read this website, then I am cactus! Do I have concerns that other Tritons will be as powerful as mine? “No”. Because mine is a RED One and it just ain’t possible. Bloody hell, I have just thought that I am going to have to save money for new tyres soon, frig no. Whether I exaggerate or not or if your Tri does get the gains that I got, who knows. All I know is what I have said above and felt through my own Dyno Bum analysis, I am Excited. Well done Chip Tuning. Cya,
