Yes I'm very much a JDM advocate and proud of it

I think you are missing the point of my suggestion.... on the white label that is stuck on your chip is a number the Jims uses to identify your chip. That is the number Jim keeps in his database that can tell him all about your chip. That "code" is meanful to him.

Yes what is in the chip any "superchip" reader can decipher no question about it.

You really need to get your 60 foot times lower to get the results you want.

With the 3:73s in your truck you must be getting a lot of tire spin on your F1s.

 

Cliff - another sugestion. Why don't you post all of your info in 1 thread. Alot of people would be willing to try and help you, but if we don't know all the details we can't help that much, or if we have to search for details we may not search.

So we have you mods list, we know you wanted street/race and Jim said you have warm/cool, we know your not happy with what you are running.

How about more specific data on each of your track runs: tempature? windy? 60ft and the rest of the times/mph? which side of the chip you ran? how long of cooldowns between runs? tire pressure of f1's?

You posted: Which is vague. Something like this would be much more helpfull:

run 1:
60' - 1.99
et' - 13.0
mph - xxx mph
was warm, track felt well prepared, ran side 1 of chip, 28psi for tires

run 2:
60 - 2.x
et - 13.x
mph - xxx
cool out, track fel poorly prepped, side 1 of chip, normal tire pressure


Also you mentioned dyno's. Did you have a dyno pull for each side of the chip, if so what results and any dyno graphs to post?

 

I took at as intentionally antagonizing. Which most people have agreed is the type of thing that is bringing this forum down.

He posted a link here to a link on SVT that points back to a different link here... Confusing and appears designed to stir up trouble rather than solve a problem.

He is PO'ed that his chip is a weather program rather than a street / strip program. And he is pissed that his truck is not running better for the mods he has. He isnt asking for member feedback. The way to solve this is to call either Jim or Mike Troyer NOT to continue to spam the various boards.

Makes no difference wether his tuner is JDM or JL or Sal...

Doug

 

Doug,

I think your wrong ... Sorry about that ... Just my opinion ...

Please close the thread ...I will not be asking for help
here anytime soon.

Y'all are hopelessly wrapped around the axle about this
tuner sheat ... I just talked to Jim, and everything could
have been resolved without all the "what's your point?"
and back and forth. ALL it would have taken was an
answer to my question about which programs and
which way the switch belonged. Simple documentation
from someone would have sufficed, and I wouldn't have to
chase my tuner around many different boards. Plus if
I had documentation on the tune and the chip in
writing I could pass it on to whomever I sell my truck to.

Easy problems, easy solutions.

Jim and I also discussed the picture with Sal's and his
trucks running head to head in Bowling Green. The
fact that the PSP truck is an '01 and mine is an '02 is
in Jim's opinion the reason that the '02's will never be
as fast with just a chip and a pulley as the 01's because
of the Ford changes to the computer. The post to the NLOC
board of the same picture was made by the owner of the
picture, and had nothing to do with me other than the
fact that it was MY JDM truck against a PSP truck. Is that
negative? I don't think so. Just comparisions. AND if
someone would have explained the '02 differences, both
myself and several other people with the same problem
woulda been a lot better informed.

For the record:

I am an enthusiastic JDM Customer. I took a LONG
time to decide which tuner I wanted to go to, and
I am hoping that I still made the best decision. As
I e-mailed to Jim, not all of us are shade tree mechanics,
and the people around here need to take that into account
sometimes.

There is a bunch of VERY dedicated people at JDM that
spend and inordinate amount of time and money providing
services, parts, and advice to the Lightning Community.
As do all the other vendors/tuners.

I will be happy with my "weather" tuned "safe" chip,
thank you... I just needed some assurances. What
I wanted was the best balance between performance
and safety, and as Jim explained, that is what I now
have. And it is what he gives every '02 Lightning
until the owner requests a better performance tune.

Assurances I have now ... Jim even offered to pay for
me to come back to NJ and go through the entire
setup ... We decided to meet in Bristol cause I
am too freaking old to drive to NJ twice in one year!!!

Very Best Regards,

Cliff

 

It took me a few times of re-reading this to figure out exactly what you meant Cliff . Obviously you are referring to you and Brandon at BG. Just FYI, Brandons truck is a 2000, not an 01, and it's no big secret that 99-00s make less power with the same mods as 01-02s because of the lower intake.

 

Sorry Sal,

I thought his was an '01 .... My bad ....

Cliff

 

That's ok. If his truck was an 01, it would pretty much look exactly like yours, with the clear tails, clear headlamps, bar style grille, and different rims.

 

If thats true I apologise.

I am guilty of over reacting. I am doing what I can to try to return this forum to the calmer days of old...
Lets move on....

Doug

 

I'm just curious as to why you would need 2 chips for weather reasons(other than the obvious financial gain to the seller). The computer has an inlet air temperature probe that measures the incoming air constantly and I would think adjusts it's fuel and timing curves in accordance. Also summer in northern Michigan is sometimes equal to winter in Florida so how would a chip "know" when the calendar has changed or the the state line has?
Horsehockey, and a big steaming pile at that. But is the steam rising from the cold of winter or being sunbaked in summer? Guess I need a different chip to tell.