Hey Mike, or anybody,
As I get closer to purchasing my chip, I got to thinking. What if it already has one? My truck seems to have an unusual amount of power and MPG for a 302 4x4. What is the easiest way to find out? I bought the truck used

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1996 F150 4x4 302, 99,000 miles

 

check superchip.com [or is it superchips?] and found out where your computer is located. From there you can find out.

Im sure its just the typical fast ford engines though.

 

Hi Primetime,

Easy, just remove your driver's kick panel, and you'll see see the computer there in all 1996 & earlier F-150's. Look on the back of the computer, and see if it has something attached on the back of it, like a small module, which would stick out of the back of the computer, and be a different color.

Good luck!

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Mike Troyer
Performance Products, Inc.
National Distributor of Superchips
(540) 862-9515
Email: mtroyer@compuserve.com
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Last night I did as you suggested and this is what I found. There were two smaller 1 1/2" wide plugs(one grey, one black) going into a larger 3" wide grey connecter/adaptor, which went directly into the bright blue box(computer). I assume this was all stock?

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1996 F150 4x4 302, 102,000 miles

 

HI Primetime,

The computer is not a "bright blue box". It will look kinda like galvanized aluminum in terms of it's color and basic appearance, it's not going to be blue. You may be looking at your ABS computer instead.

Also, the computer's wiring harness is not multi-part, it is a single harness with a single 10mm bolt head dead-center. This wiring harness will be under the hood, down low on the driver's side underneath the brake master cylinder, as the computer is mounted so that the first inch or so of it actually protrudes thru an opening in the firewall, so it can connect to it's wiring harness, which looks like it just dead-ends into the firewall, but it's actually connecting to the front of the computer there. The rest of the computer is behind the driver's kick panel, and also behind the aluminum mounting plate for the emergency brake pedal in the 1996 & earlier F-150. You can't see the computer from under the hood until you disconnect it's wiring harness. The best way to see if it has a chip already is to pop off the drivers kick panel and look at the back of the computer from there, to see if it has a chip installed, which I doubt.

Are you sure you removed the "drivers" kick panel, and not the passenger's kick panel?

Good luck!

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Mike Troyer
Performance Products, Inc.
National Distributor of Superchips
(540) 862-9515
Email: mtroyer@compuserve.com
Performance Products F150Online Superchip ordering system: F150Online Superchip Ordering System
First National F-150 Online Rally Event Organizer

[This message has been edited by Superchips_Distributor (edited 08-29-2000).]