Anyone help a poor Griff owner obtain a Mark Adams chip ?

[The Moosehunter]

Hi Compadres

Once I get my engine back after a particualrily nasty No 1 piston blow out I am due for a Mark adams rolling road session very soon and speaking to him yesterday he says he is happy to tweak an existing chip if I can get one secondhand

Anybody able to help ?

(Anything to help the dwindling funds)

Cheers

Your freindly Griff owner

Moose

[scotty_d]

No back to the dark side and take your chest wig with you.

No sorry can't help just find it funny you grifter come crawling to the big boys of the tvr world for help.

[RichB]

Perhaps he thought one of you lot had bought one but found it to scary!

[scotty_d]

RichB said:

Perhaps he thought one of you lot had bought one but found it to scary!

Not one of my lot any more i moved on to very scary

[RichB]

scotty_d said:

Not one of my lot any more i moved on to very scary

Oh yes...

[SILICONE KID]

You would think he would give you a chip ,they only cost about 50 pence especialy if your going to pay him another £700 to £1000 for the remap..There is a recession on you know..Don`t i know it..!..Add all that together and that costs more than purchasing all the Megasquirt stuff and having a full install and rolling road and fully mapped...

http://www.dyno-tech.co.uk/services.php#mega_squir...

Edited by SILICONE KID on Wednesday 16th February 16:07

[Alexdaredevilz]

SILICONE KID said:

You would think he would give you a chip ,they only cost about 50 pence especialy if your going to pay him another £700 to £1000 for the remap..There is a recession on you know..Don`t i know it..!..Add all that together and that costs more than purchasing all the Megasquirt stuff and having a full install and rolling road and fully mapped...

http://www.dyno-tech.co.uk/services.php#mega_squir...

Edited by SILICONE KID on Wednesday 16th February 16:07

I spoke to him this week, and the price is £750 ish for chip, map and rolling road,

[SILICONE KID]

Dropped his prices then!You had to buy a best guess map at £400 ish then the full map and rolling road up to 1k..So thats about £1400.!

[Alexdaredevilz]

SILICONE KID said:

Dropped his prices then!You had to buy a best guess map at £400 ish then the full map and rolling road up to 1k..So thats about £1400.!

Probaly doesn't like plumbers

[SILICONE KID]

Don`t think he as anything against plumbers !maybe the work as dropped off abit ..Better than being on the dole.

Edited by SILICONE KID on Wednesday 16th February 17:08

[RichB]

SILICONE KID said:

..Better than being on the doll.

I shudder to think or do you mean on the dole

[SILICONE KID]

sorry about that but at one time you had to buy the chip then pay for the remap..thats a good deal..I tried for months trying to get hold of him thats why i went down the Megasquirt route. On the Doll

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/V8-EFi-Tornado-ECU-Chip-Morg...

Edited by SILICONE KID on Wednesday 16th February 19:44

[spend]

Is Daz's girlfriend a bit plastic or something ?

[Ribol]

SILICONE KID said:

You had to buy a best guess map at £400 ish then the full map and rolling road up to 1k..So thats about £1400.

Alexdaredevilz said:

I spoke to him this week, and the price is £750 ish for chip, map and rolling road

I tell you what that Mark Adams is no fool

[markreilly]

spend said:

Is Daz's girlfriend a bit plastic or something ?

I saw him over on the Bike forum giving out about the cost of puncture repair kits ! i always thought he had a fast Chimaera,he who talks to much perhaps !

[blitzracing]

I have to admire Mark for his marketing skills, as Daz says the hardware is worth about £1, but by adding a trade in value it keeps its "commodity" value high. The daft thing is you already have a TVR map that simply needs modifying by putting in more fuel (assuming lean running is the basis of your woes), but once Mark modify's it, its scrambled and effectively it is copyrighted by him, so the price goes up accordingly. If it is lean running you could just boost the fuel pressure to start with, and monitor the lambda outputs to see whats going on, the 14CUX is remarkably adaptable at pulling the fueling straight in closed loop.

[Simon says]

Quinny said:

I think MA does a little bit more than " if its rich" he leans it out, and "if it's weak" he richness it up a bit...

OK so he cleans up the over-fueling when cold too

[The Moosehunter]

scotty_d said:

find it funny you grifter come crawling to the big boys of the tvr world for help

Nice ! Just what a fella with a fecked motor needs, a welcoming kick in the plums from a caring sharing fellow TVR owner ..... Cheers

Mark has explained his up front costs direct to me and the fact that he's quite prepared to chuck away potential profit by allowing folks to supply a previously owned chip for re-working seems fair enough to me

So back to the question in hand ... Anyone got one ?

Cheers

[Ribol]

blitzracing said:

I have to admire Mark for his marketing skills, as Daz says the hardware is worth about £1, but by adding a trade in value it keeps its "commodity" value high. The daft thing is you already have a TVR map that simply needs modifying by putting in more fuel (assuming lean running is the basis of your woes), but once Mark modify's it, its scrambled and effectively it is copyrighted by him, so the price goes up accordingly. If it is lean running you could just boost the fuel pressure to start with, and monitor the lambda outputs to see whats going on, the 14CUX is remarkably adaptable at pulling the fueling straight in closed loop.

Surely it is a little more than marketing skills, from my understanding he can provide a service that others can't, isn't that the case?

[Simon says]

Ribol said:

Surely it is a little more than marketing skills, from my understanding he can provide a service that others can't, isn't that the case?

Maybe Ivan but charged accordingly not knocking the man though before anyone starts his obviously very good at what he provides