eBay Performance Chips - Mythbusted
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- Опубликовано: 22 апр 2014
- Can you really get an increase of 35 horsepower using a $20 'Performance Chip' from eBay on your car? And how do they work? In this episode of Mighty Car Mods, Marty and Moog find out, with some surprising results...
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$19 ECM performance chip from EBay, WHAT A DEAL!!!! It's just as a great deal as the $5 I paid for the five gallons of blinker fluid I just purchased from EBay.
Frank Gonzalez Throw in a tank of sports air for your tires and your sorted!
+Frank Gonzalez blinker fluid is getting expensive. it costs me like $400 per fill up
+ShamanNoodles You must have some of those new LED blinkers. The fluid for those is way overpriced.
+meteoricthrone can someone tell me what the hell blinker fluid is and why you'd need it
+snowball114 Blinker fluid is coolant for your turn signals, it keeps them from over heating and burning out. Every time your turn signal flashes, a little bit of turn signal fluid is use up. And if you don't refill the blinker fluid tank, your turn signals will burn out.
I love how they always say "vtec yo" with a straight face like they're not even making a joke.
+Sadpants McGee straya!
+Sadpants McGee they are mocking 'vtec'...like one mocks a prius...
J Leonard That's why I love it.
You shouldn't mock Vtec when it's the original variable valve timing tech that is now in a lot of modern day cars.
And besides, it's pretty good tech. Wait, did somebody say they weren't impressed with a *stock* Vtec yo?
Well then unstock it! or buy something else.
+TheNotoriousKRP modern vvt is nothing like hondas proprietary vtec
obviously a Soviet GPS Tracking unit...
No... it's a german one. Obviously Nazis.
Ha,ha...yes, made by a cheap vodka communist drunker.
No definitely north Korean spying unit. No doubt
It's doing 4 things:
Transferring $20
Providing a cool led light
Compromising the integrity of your wiring harness
Compromising your warranty.
Seems like a good idea.
On the upside at least it did no direct harm to the engine.
I have a 97 jeep tj. Got the classic inline 6 engine w a thrush rattler exhaust and a cpə air intake. Im running on a Tamari stage 12 chip. Generally i dont put ebay parts in any of my cars but the jeep is definitely pushing hella more torque with that chip
@@thisnametooktolong Yep, and I even had one. It had 18 k in it when I sold it. I spent far more time under that car working on it than I spent driving the damn thing. A true "street-strip" machine!!
I ran a cold air intake hotter plugs and a stage 5 performance chip from eBay on a 2005 Cadillac STS and that thing is a rocket
@@CranioUomo NO, it is NOT...
You must be an ebay dealer of these scam products... 🤷🏻
Power at the wheels and power at the engine are two different things people - do a google!
Not sure whether to laugh or cry at the fact that people need to be told about this, especially on this channel
WHY DID YOU CUT YOUR HAIR? COME ON M8.
well i did google as you said and i found that on the wheels it has 160kW (214hp) and 190nm, it still more than 177hp your dino showed :)
Vadim Matviichuk There are different versions of the s2000.
RunesLegacy Yeah, there are different versions (like for US, EU, JP) but their power differs only by couple of hp or kW, not by 50hp or 60hp.
stickers + 5 hp
spoilers + 10hp
paint the car black + 100hp
GTA logic
dont forget racing stripes
+Alex Shi your forgetting something they need to special order that paint so its a pearlescent black
Micheal Wright lol black is always faster.
+Alex Shi You forgot this chip. +35hp
25:15 to get to the point
Rene Bueno you’re a life saver
Thank you
Thank youuuu
the real mvp
Yess
You guys should try one of the OBD2 ones that are so prevalent.
But YOU DID get a cool LED light that changes color...
Tony Stark - I have 1 in my car. Even if it does nothing it's a great conversation starter so I keep it.
an enormous dong for a shifter would do the same thing
Skrutinizr -Do you sell those for $5 with free shipping? I need new conversation starters.
it's produced for roughly 35 cent a piece including everything...
Conversation starter.
Oh whats that!!!
A switch that controls a light. Only $20.
So you paid $20 for a light.
Yup. Its a conversation starter.
Dumbass! Pull the car over and let me out. I can’t associate myself with you any longer. But before I go I have some magic beans for sale. Only $100.
Hahaha. Or the dong shifter idea would work.
I get more HP from my No Fat Chicks bumper sticker.
S Biggs every bumper sticker adds horsepower
MAX HORSEPOWER!!!!!!
S Biggs lol
Weight reduction
why do you drive a Honda lmao
Wow, 5 years ago already. Feels like i just watched this for the first time yesterday.
Mikey Flynn 😂
I feel the same way watching some of RCR first videos
I feel this
Hahaha! Brilliant investigative journalism guys. Brave to try it on your own VTEC, and really entertaining, great work
Kit claims to be for the S2000, kit instructions show a VW engine and say to attach chip to a sensor that the S2000 doesn't have. Seems legit.
And they didnt get that from the start..... o my
might even work with a sensor it's designed for
Probably just an evry mod set up
@@ironjudas666 Did you not watch the last minute of the video?
& it was made in Germany hahahaha
It does work by making your wallet lighter of money hence less weight = better gas mileage. :)
you're funny
Would be almost funny if it wasn't for the fact the "chip" also adds weight to your car anyways.
you replace your old chip with ebay one so it doesnt add weight to your car. Indeed better gas mileage, lol
No, that's how some performance chips work but not this one - obviously you didn't watch the video before replying.
But I'm sure it weights much less than a wallet (which you won't need once you won't have no money left)
Can you guys do an updated one with the OBD2 ebay modules now?
funniest part of the video" and listen to that V-Tech" and " im always in race mode its a honda" had me in tear m8
You didn't read carefully the instructions: you should mount this chip on the dyno, not on the car! than the dyno program add 25HP on the result and all it's working ;) LOL!
Gees, now you have to to carry the dyno with you every day.
Lok Tom no, you install tires to the dyno and drive that around.
Those chips really does something powerful folks. It's the technology to collect $$$$$ from fools. When the light flashes it meant SUCKER.
Hella funny
these guys are trolls
its a 20 dollar led light
Joshua Johnson hardly even LED
Joshua Johnson someone is working hard to pay for that only to have their pants pulled down 20 dollars or not..
As for the tip for making it better: measure up the holes and get universal hood vents that fit over them and fit the styling of the car somewhat. Make exact cuts measuring properly and file down the edges. Paint the exposed metal with a silver paint corrector. Get color matched paint from a store, prep, primer, paint and clearcoat the universal hood vents, then use a liquid sealant to fix them in place - after measuring and making sure they are properly aligned.
Wow, really liked how you went the extra mile to figure out the true function of that chip
This is dumb. Why would they title the video 'preformance chips- mythbusted'? Why broadly make the claim that preformance chips dont work work when all they did was test some unknown chip instead of testing a name brand chip like an sct preformance chip from bama or a bully dog chip? Its common sense to know that the $20 ebay chip wont work... Id like to see a test on a chip from a prestigious company.
vzach1 I Agree 100%.
vzach1 Forget about prestige companies. I got a cheap 50 Euro chip from Bulgaria for my 1.8T Audi and even that works perfectly.
Adam Jensen No Adam. No you didn't. In fact, I am going to guess that you're actually selling 50 Euro chips from Bulgaria and don't like videos like this showing that these chip/modules don't actually do anything.
Auxillian Warghost If your half brain will guess that bullshit, then I can also guess that you're some "professional" seller, who scams people of hundreds of cash by providing same or worse services. Guess what: You're completely wrong and stupid to say that. And I'm completely set up with my car for the 50 bucks I paid. Fuck you, shitbag. Go do some work for society instead of trying to fool people.
Adam Jensen Go do some work for society instead of giving 50 bucks to scam artists who are staying in business because of stupid people like you. Next time keep your 50 bucks until you can research mods that actually work. You're the type of guy who send the Nigerian "princes" 50 bucks, which is why they keep spamming the rest of us. Just say no to resistors! lol
Some free tips how to make your car go faster.
1) Remove the paint,no need for that.
2) You can also throw out the back and front seat,spare wheel,cd and the carpets.
3) Lose weight and drive around naked,no need for that extra weight,so off with the clothes..
+MrCheatreporter weight reduction bro
+MrCheatreporter do you even lift bro.
Make sure to take the weights off the wheels too.
Take off your brakes..... No need for those
Lmfao you guys👆😂😭
You both are such creative amazing bosses. and i just have to say that moog you have the most epic personality and sense of humor. ....cheerzzz! love ya 2 marty.... wouldnt be the same without you (= keep it up and never stop uploading your vids!!!!!
Great video guys. Thank you for posting. To me it just looks like a repurposed board used to control an led
Buying a chip is totally different then getting a chip specifically tuned for your car. I got my lsVtec 2000 Si chipped and tuned with a dyno setup for $150. Added around 10-15 hp, 2step, launch control, rev limiter, shift light, IACV adj, kc delete, improved my fuel economy and a whole lot more.
You can definitely tell it's a quality performance chip because the text on it is in Comic Sans xD
Really glad you guys did the electrical analysis at the end -i think we all knew these things don't work, but its really interesting to find out they weren't even trying! -other than trying to fool us that they might be trying with their scrap chips... Cool in depth myth bust!
Nice to see Marty and Moog hanging out with their dad. They're good kids
Nice debunking! Very thorough, detailed and professional! Almost felt like watching "The mythbusters"
What a scam. People that put out garbage like this should be arrested, questioned as to what their true intention for making a device like this is, and then convicted, if guilty, to return all monies back to the people they scammed. Where are the consumer protection agencies in all of this?
they are outside of the US so there is nothing that could be done from our end.
If thats true then there is a serious problem with customs allowing crap like this to come into the country. I am sure theres been huge complaints yet the feds do nothing. The same goes with people who computer hack and send out viruses. I mean really. A whole separate market left for the legal departments to create controversy over so they can rake in the money while the consumer suffers. China syndrome.
ChiefJustice Middleton
I'm sure there *haven't* been huge complaints. As they allude in the video, how many people who buy a $20 chip are going to spend hundreds putting the car on a dyno before and after to check for actual HP gains? Most people who bought this chip will have convinced themselves that it works.
Colin D
I guess it swings both ways eh. Just like china is allowed to make shit quality products and we are almost forced to purchase this crap. Most of the time its got nothing to do with being a dumbass when some advertisements for some of these products boast unreal events. Mostly car adds the completely brainwash people into buying their crap, which most vehicles are just that fuking garbage. As far buying products for vehicles, I believe most are sold by the snakeoil salesman himself. Its mostly bullshit and supported by consumer protection agents who are shills to begin with. Your right, we have to look after ourselves and watch out what we buy, however there is a blatant scam going on here that needs to be addressed.
ChiefJustice Middleton this was bought from some tiny ebay merchant. no country has the resources to handle every single case of fraud, it's not worth it. some things have to be left to the consumers. ebay does have a pretty solid money back guarantee for cases like this, but I'm not sure how they would hold the merchant responsible.
WOW! Thanks, guys! For that extensive research review!
Had to send this to my friend cause he didn't know any better😂thanks for the video guys!
Ohhhh I've been waiting for this one!
This is just about as good as the Fuel Shark, as far as products go.
Now you have seen it!
You guys keep up with MCM? I love you a little more now.
Hey Mr. Regular and Roman I just wanted to say you guys are fucking awesome and I can't wait for your new videos on the NY Auto Show.
Duck Draper
I'm writing it as you type that
If I put 3 of the chips in do I get 100HP extra ? ;-)
hahaha no. But I'm actually thinking about buying a chip for a car I got. srt4 got stage 1, 2, and 3 chips from Mopar that make serious horsepower. Chips like the one in the video are generic and don't work. Real chips have to be tuned for the specific car and costs $200+.
U mean 90....
+Dilix idgaf its good to know simple math when being pedantic... 35 • 3 does not equal 90... he was closer at 100 -_-
BananaGunz wast it 30HP?
+Peter Rafeiner YOU MAKE ALLLLLL THE HORSEPOWERS!!!!
The red Gallant at 1:27 is identical to my first car! I wanted to 4g63 swap it but 20 years ago that was practically impossible without a fab shop and wiring experts now you can get stand alones, adapter harnesses and swap mounts for any combination you ca to dream up. Memories, sweet memories.
haha you guys are awesome love the humor mixed in with all the real info.
gotta love it
I test audio amplifiers for wattage, also busting some myths like those "500w" $20 amps from China...yep, good for 5-12 watts! Also, many eBay and forum posts say old school X amplifier puts out xyz wattage. I can prove or disprove these claims with my "Amp Dyno". Fun stuff. Great video as always, thanks for saving folks 20 bucks!
Fancy seeing you here BigD!! :) Props to OldSchoolStereoReview & MCM! Both you fella's are doing a great job keeping us in the know. Keep up the great work!!
Berringer is famous for fake wattage claims. It's 500 watt PA amp is about 150 RMS @ 8 ohms per channel or 4 ohms bridged. Some of the name brand companies are legit in their power claims at various ohm loads.
Maybe you could tell me why I have a "1000W" name brand PA speaker with integrated amplifier that consumes 25W at all times regardless of how high or low the volume is. Was curious so I hooked up the kill-a-watt meter.
Why not kit it out with like 4 spoilers and 8 body skirts. 100hp easy.
+Aldion Sylkaj With all that rice they could make enough to have a family dinner! 😂
+Aldion Sylkaj www.aliexpress.com/store/1021279
ScantSphinx9 more like a village XD XD
Ricer love
Type R badges add the most shhh its a secret lol
You guys are keeping all these shady part companies in business LOL. Great videos guys
This is really interesting (but not really that surprising) thank you for the huge effort making this vid.
The placebo effect makes most people think it works. But it obviously doesn't.
So im guessing the next mod on the s2k is and ecu and tune?
WOW!!! I LOVE the intro to the video!!! This shit JAMS!!! Y'all be ROCKIN!!! KEEP ROCKIN!!!
Awesome video! Thanks for confirming what we all suspected.
Send this thing to "EEV Blog", he will do a electronic teardown. Thing gets distroyed, but you do know what is was and what is did.
cutting a hole in the floor and flintstoning with Usain Bolt in the vehicle would give the Honda some good figures
Hahahahaha
Lol
VR4OZ hehehehe I think the size of the hole should be discussed and tested. LOL :-)
Yes do a legit chip! I’d love to see that! Thank you for testing this and saving everyone a but ton of money and time lol.
Thanks if you count all the people looking at your video you just not saved them only money but a lot of trouble. Thanks for this eyes opener.
Props for using you're own car....and an expensive car at that.
S2000 is not expensive...
Dude the s2000 is like 10-18k thats pretty expensive
Not for some of us.
Taylor Chong Maybe if your 14? By the time I was 19 and a half I had already bought a 48k Camaro ZL1....
Its called working man, open your own business if you want to make good money.
yeah, im planning to go work at my uncles car mechanic shop when i turn 16, get some money for college and my own personal wants.
I love how serious you guys are during this process :)
Damn you Honda for discontinuing the s2000! Damn you!!!!
Made them even better.
"You ready to go!!" Seems legit
I can't wait till they start on the S2k mods!
That was brilliant! I knew these were useless but I am surprised at just HOW useless they are.
This was fantastic. Great job.
I got to see this 7 years later but was told I'm seeing it live!
Would love to see you guys build a budget rally car.
No spit.. id luv to see that
@@nook5286 the civic… the fuck? Respect. ✊🏿
Remap is better than any add-on chip
Thx for being thorough!
I friggin' love Scott!
Who that face on your thumbnail
There will always be "Snake Oil" as long as people are willing to believe and pay for it. Great video.
true
you guys meet some nice and cool shop guys...jealous i have never met one, they usually talk down to me and laugh at my goals for my cars....
they must be french
no just VW techs
for french cars?
I LOVE this show! I just love it!
The sticker on the chip's font is Comic Sans. +1000HP right there, good find
Very nice "review" - you guys definitely rock. Thanks for being a channel with a good amount of research.
You guys rock! Love watching these mod myths busted!!
Was this the first Haltech vid? Brilliant.
I almost bought something similar online lol. Glad I always look at reviews and do a little research before any purchases.
Great video!!! Thanks mates.
Please make another budget street Cred video.
That chip is just the LED controller.
Why thank you for the TL;DR of the entire episode we just watched.
NO PROB BRO!
AWESOME THANKS FOR ACKNOWLEDGING ME BRAH.
ANY TIME BREH.
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He just said "extra unicorn fart mode" funniest thing I've heard I'm a long time.
Nice work guys!!! I thank you!
such a nice $20 led controller
Make a video on ecu performance chip which we have to install inside the ecu .
Love the content! Such an old video such a goodie tho!
Huh! Who would of thought? Awesome video.
I keep telling people. VTEC is a technology to get an aggressive cam profile to run smooth at low RPM. It's not a technology to make you go faster, it's a technology to make a lumpy cam - which is what makes the car quicker - more tolerable to drive day to day.
For an engine with an aggressive cam, below 4500 is low, yes.
***** For a car that goes to 9k, yup
***** Yes, at 75mph an S2K will rev at 4K RPM in 6th. Actually, i normally change gears between 4K to 5K... And the engine running below 3K will actually bog...And still does 23mpg...
Luis Ribeiro You've got a long 6th. My Integra sits at 4100rpm at about 100km/h in 5th (62 mph).
Vtec is variable valve timing, vtec changes the lift and duration on the cam.. so yes, it makes your car faster
MCM sticker gives more hp than that chip lol
Hello there. I have a project jeep. 1997 tj w inline 6, Flowmaster exhaust and k&n air intake. Its running with a 45.00 tamari stage 12 tuner chip and honest too god it works. Definitely recommend them.
Performance chip ad showing while watching this video. Thanks for the video though yo!
Hey guys!
Could you please do a test with a real chip? I mean the ones who cost 200$+?
Agreed, granted though I don't think it will help but buying a cheap/fake chip from eBay just doesn't cut it for me. I wanna know if the real expensive ones really do help.
Better yet, with their access to a dyno and a proper critical "dyno-yoda", a comparison between several chips from ebay, local tuners etc would be very interesting. Let's find out if the myth about chips will actually be busted.
Glad to see that I'm not the only one annoyed by calling some 'IAT sensor fooling device' a performance chip.. Let's start calling things as they are, and for the more serious petrolhead those IAT devices were already in the same performance bracket as turbonators, homemade C(H)AIs, etc.
Unafraidworm I think they do. Unfortunately, mine for example makes power at around 6500 rpm. When do I drive at those levels? Never.
Thanks for the support guys, maybe MCM will see this message!
I believe that S2000 is making as much it can and I don't think there is a much room left on program level even that it is using old MAP sensor and not more accurate MAF sensor.
I was personally very surprised that MX5 had just switch style TP sensor. I laughed.
On real chips you are paying programming and not "chips" because chips just cost 2 to 8 dollars a piece (not to mention those which need some logic chip making talking between ecu). Today OBD programming / Flash so not anymore chips either (OBD flash tools are costly thou).
I think this dyno yoda is not making chips. Because they are selling they own ecu system.
Made in Germany my ass! They just put that on so it sells better!
nrdesign1991 Correct. China isn't known for quality, and Germany isn't known for selling a useless piece of plastic and wires for 50 Euro. I think the stickers got mixed up somewhere.
+Auxillian Warghost Moog said it came from ukraine, something like that with the codes scratched off i expect is just a made scamming on ebay. And hes put a sticker that says its made in Germany as the Germans and a high rep for good quality produce.
+nrdesign1991 Like the clean diesel on VW cars, hahaha Grüße aus Deutschland
Diesel never was clean, it's a complete lie in itself.
nrdesign1991 I know. And now everybody know.
Good job, nice debunk!
I appreciate you guys for exposing all the gimmick products
The tall expert, looks kinda like the tall bad guy from Home Alone 1 & 2, doesn`t he??? LOL
YEAH OMG LOL WOOT
I love it "You've let the smoke out" I work at an electrical plant and we all know everything operates on smoke. Once you let the smoke out, its dead
glad they got the real report at the end !
Good job guys keep it up
lol LED color changer for 20 dollars, and you only get two colors
Do more ebay DIY parts show
AGAIN GUYS IT IS THE TYPE OF THING I WOULD HAVE BOUGHT TO SPEED UP MY OLD CAR WHEN I WAS A YOUNG MAN THANK YOU FOR SAVING YOUNG GUYS MONEY KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
Amazing!
Blessed
Great, superb, extracting video! God Bless
The power of Ebay
***** LOL OMG WOOT
I've got a Cold-Air intake and a full Cat-back exhaust setup off of ebay and they both work wonderfully. I do believe there are different levels of ebay products. Some are scam products designed to feed off the ignorant and some are made off of a brand name products line, but sold under a generic name. Possible brand name rejects due to not meeting specific tolerances and just sold under a generic name to help cover production costs.
autobotguy Cold air intake and sport exhaust systems with luck you have 10hp more.
Also using performance chips on a n/a doesn't do a lot.
The fun starts when you turbo-charge, forced induction, good exhaust system, custom ecu plus other crank, mod the vtec timing... so basically spend around 10k on it and you might double the horse power - but then it's not VTec what kicked in ;)
Orku5 Wallet kicked in yo!
(DISCLAIMER, this post has already been discussed enough, I don't need 10 more people to tell me how i'm arrogant and this video really is a big help to morons) .....This is stupid, there is no myth behind chipping. If you order mystery shit off of ebay, of course it's going to be a scam. In the real world that the rest of us live in, cars with non-flashable or programmable computers have to have the "chip" that controls the car replaced in order to change the tune of the car, and there is nothing mysterious or fake about it. What's next, a 30 minute video explaining why i shouldn't order chinese paint with lead in it off of ebay, to paint an infant's crib? Anyone with common sense doesn't need this video.
Hey, Im genuinely not trying to sound argumentative, bit this video isn't meant for people like you, and I. This is meant for the 17 year old, that finds a "performance" chip promising 60+hp and tq gains, and 200 mpg. I can't even tell you how many young guys on my BMW forums, and 5series get their hands on a car, or even want to chip their parents car, and they're always asking "is this true?" " will I really be able to make 350 whp in my dads E60 525i?" Lol. Its ok of funny. These guys need someone to explain it to them. I can't stand answering their questions, only to have them argue with me afterwards because they can't stand the fact that the I hopes for 60 whp gain and 30 mpg after a $20 "upgrade" from China. Yeah, because some guy in China knows some secret the engineers didnt what he soldered a small capacitor on some other shit lmfao. Have a good one.
EvilDave83 You're right, i've probably underestimated how many dummies there are there. Maybe i was having an optimistic day and didn't think humanity was that collectively stupid.
hzuiel lmao exactly
Lassi Kinnunen No one is arguing that at all, in the video they said that real aftermarket ECU can make changes.
The whole point of this video is be informative and make for an interesting show. If the title had been, lets test this fake chip off eBay to see if it is fake, then it would be boring.
By making the show about saying, look, I bought a cheap chip off ebay, it claims this and as we have the tools available to us, we are going to test it to show you once and for all if it does what it promises us.
As they said at the end, if a mate had bought and fitted one, just driving around, they will never be able to quantify any gains, and wishful thinking might have people thinking that it actually did something too.
Lassi Kinnunen Yeah, I dont know if it was all that clear in my comment, but I know cars pretty well. Im a full on gear head myself. Im familiar with the theory, so no need to explain. My problem with this subject is that people confuse the idea of chipping a car, and reprogramming, or replacing an ECU. They dont seem to understand that you can buy a performance "chip" thats been engineered for your vehicle but, a $20 chip on craigslist cant delivered on these extreme promises of huge power and fuel gains.
Fantastic content!
This is probably the best episode lol
Lol the "V-Tec, yo"s.
25:50 my questions answered exactly. You could of figured that out without touching your car with simple point to point testing on the trick chip.
Those connectors are make before breaks to stop you from interrupting signals for input/output
As for figuring if they have connected just run a continuity test (all multimeters have the option) from the pre existing line to the new spliced line
12:10 "When you're in fuel saving mode, I don't know why you'd use that"
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