Superchips finishes new Lightning Chip!
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Superchips finishes new Lightning Chip!
Just a quick note to all owners of the new Lightning: Superchips has finished the tuning on the current performance program for the new Lightning!
The higher boost program is still under development, and will be a free upgrade to all Lightning Superchip owners when it is available. The current performance program is the program that reduced 1/4 mile times by .8 seconds (eight tenths of a second) at the Ford World Challenge in Joliet a couple months ago. They have finished it's development thanks to Lightning owners who brought their vehicles to the development facility, for precise tuning with real-time data gear in place, to insure proper A/F ratios, EGT, etc.
It is still the Flip-Chip, which stores 2 programs; the first program is the factory program, which is to be used as a "fall-back", or "conservative" program in areas where fuel quality may be spotty, and the second program is the performance program. Selecting either program is as easy as flipping the switch!
Our special F150online discount of course applies to this product as well!
All interested parties chould double-check their computer code (so far they are all CUX1), and then contact us via email or phone for details and ordering.
Enjoy,
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Mike Troyer
Performance Products, Inc.
National Distributor of Superchips
(540) 862-9515
Email: mtroyer@compuserve.com
The higher boost program is still under development, and will be a free upgrade to all Lightning Superchip owners when it is available. The current performance program is the program that reduced 1/4 mile times by .8 seconds (eight tenths of a second) at the Ford World Challenge in Joliet a couple months ago. They have finished it's development thanks to Lightning owners who brought their vehicles to the development facility, for precise tuning with real-time data gear in place, to insure proper A/F ratios, EGT, etc.
It is still the Flip-Chip, which stores 2 programs; the first program is the factory program, which is to be used as a "fall-back", or "conservative" program in areas where fuel quality may be spotty, and the second program is the performance program. Selecting either program is as easy as flipping the switch!
Our special F150online discount of course applies to this product as well!
All interested parties chould double-check their computer code (so far they are all CUX1), and then contact us via email or phone for details and ordering.
Enjoy,
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Mike Troyer
Performance Products, Inc.
National Distributor of Superchips
(540) 862-9515
Email: mtroyer@compuserve.com
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When did you buy a Lightning, Fast?
Back when the Lightning was under development, and for a short time after the first vehicles were delivered, it was thought that for the first time ever on a positive-displacement type blower, that there was an external piece of hardware linked to the program in the ECU that served to bleed off boost. When that information was originally pumped into the "pipeline",(several entities are credited with starting that silly rumor) Mike Short @ Superchips and I discussed this. Mike told me at that time that if this was the case, we would find it (whatever was limiting the boost)and make another performance program for whatever additional level of boost could be supported by pump premium, and that this further development would be a free upgrade to anyone who had purchased the Lightning Superchip Flip Chip. It was always questionable as to whether or not pump premium could support significantly higher boost levels without having to compromise overall driveability terribly by having to reduce spark advance drastically to compensate for the increased boost, with no increase in fuel quality, you see. Supercharged motors are a bit finicky when you start cranking up the boost on pump gas, you have to be very careful.
Superchips way back then was dying to get ahold of that vehicle, as nobody has ever limited boost in that manner with an Eaton supercharger, so they were quite anxious to tear into it and see just how it was designed, and get it "hacked". (professional term) And as soon as they did, they quickly found no truth to those rumors of higher boost being possible without reducing blower pulley diameter.
This makes about the 7th post I've made here since then to explain this situation, which we did as soon as Superchips discovered that this was just a silly rumor, and just one of many silly rumors that were floating around about the Lightning. Let's hope this is the last time.
Superchips has traditionally supplied any further program upgrades free of charge for each computer code, but those are fairly rare. Once the program is done, that is it, as unless the fuel changes, there is nothing more to be gained from the program, as a general rule. In other words, a program for a 1993 vehicle does not keep getting updated by Superchips, they do all that work during original product development, unless they for some reason couldn't get enough time with a particular vehicle to do a particular function. One example of such a situation would be say, in the case of a brand new vehicle, if they don't get enough time with the vehicle they may not yet have the top speed limiter function out yet, and that is always a free upgrade. It's not often that programs are updated, it's generally only when one of their "standard" mods was not yet finished that a program will be updated in it's general release.
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Mike Troyer
Performance Products, Inc.
National Distributor of Superchips
(540) 862-9515
Email: mtroyer@compuserve.com
Back when the Lightning was under development, and for a short time after the first vehicles were delivered, it was thought that for the first time ever on a positive-displacement type blower, that there was an external piece of hardware linked to the program in the ECU that served to bleed off boost. When that information was originally pumped into the "pipeline",(several entities are credited with starting that silly rumor) Mike Short @ Superchips and I discussed this. Mike told me at that time that if this was the case, we would find it (whatever was limiting the boost)and make another performance program for whatever additional level of boost could be supported by pump premium, and that this further development would be a free upgrade to anyone who had purchased the Lightning Superchip Flip Chip. It was always questionable as to whether or not pump premium could support significantly higher boost levels without having to compromise overall driveability terribly by having to reduce spark advance drastically to compensate for the increased boost, with no increase in fuel quality, you see. Supercharged motors are a bit finicky when you start cranking up the boost on pump gas, you have to be very careful.
Superchips way back then was dying to get ahold of that vehicle, as nobody has ever limited boost in that manner with an Eaton supercharger, so they were quite anxious to tear into it and see just how it was designed, and get it "hacked". (professional term) And as soon as they did, they quickly found no truth to those rumors of higher boost being possible without reducing blower pulley diameter.
This makes about the 7th post I've made here since then to explain this situation, which we did as soon as Superchips discovered that this was just a silly rumor, and just one of many silly rumors that were floating around about the Lightning. Let's hope this is the last time.
Superchips has traditionally supplied any further program upgrades free of charge for each computer code, but those are fairly rare. Once the program is done, that is it, as unless the fuel changes, there is nothing more to be gained from the program, as a general rule. In other words, a program for a 1993 vehicle does not keep getting updated by Superchips, they do all that work during original product development, unless they for some reason couldn't get enough time with a particular vehicle to do a particular function. One example of such a situation would be say, in the case of a brand new vehicle, if they don't get enough time with the vehicle they may not yet have the top speed limiter function out yet, and that is always a free upgrade. It's not often that programs are updated, it's generally only when one of their "standard" mods was not yet finished that a program will be updated in it's general release.
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Mike Troyer
Performance Products, Inc.
National Distributor of Superchips
(540) 862-9515
Email: mtroyer@compuserve.com