Chim ECU in V8s?
Chim ECU in V8s?
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V8ish

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370 posts

228 months

Friday 23rd May 2008
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I read somewhere the last of the V8s's had the chim ecu which gave better performance or at least a better power delivery.

Does anyone know if there would be any benefit to a swap?

trackcar

6,453 posts

255 months

Friday 23rd May 2008
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I suspect it was a chim ecu because basically it was a catalyst chim spec engine fitted to the last V8S models (like mine), so unless you have a cat car there's no point using the chim ecu, and if you do have a cat car there's also no point changing as you have that ecu already.

grahamw48

9,944 posts

267 months

Friday 13th June 2008
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trackcar said:
I suspect it was a chim ecu because basically it was a catalyst chim spec engine fitted to the last V8S models (like mine), so unless you have a cat car there's no point using the chim ecu, and if you do have a cat car there's also no point changing as you have that ecu already.
Is there a difference between the cat spec Chim engine and the non- cat (apart from tuner colour, or whatever it's called, in the ECU ) ?

Mine is a '95 Chim HC engine, pre-serp, with typhoon cam, originally cat spec fitted into 400SE without cats of course, but using matching chim ECU tuned for non cat.