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08-07-2005, 04:43 AM
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SCT chip
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strike1980
Join Date: Apr 2005
City: stockton
State: California
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how do you intall a SCT chip i just order one but now that i think about it i dont know how
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08-07-2005, 07:30 AM
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Re: SCT chip
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Cammed Baby!
Join Date: May 2003
City: Chicago 'Burbs
State: Illinois
Posts: 1,713
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What year is your car?
Auto or Manual?
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2003 SVT Lightning #1059 of 4270
2000 Vert 4R70W
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08-07-2005, 03:39 PM
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Re: SCT chip
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strike1980
Join Date: Apr 2005
City: stockton
State: California
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08-07-2005, 04:20 PM
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Re: SCT chip
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postarama
Join Date: Aug 2003
City: Southaven
State: Mississippi
Posts: 24,295
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1st thing you do is disconnect your battery. You take off the passenger side kick panel. It is held in with a plastic christmas tree type thing, take a flat head screwdriver and it will pop right off. Take the kick panel off, behind there you will see 3 sets of wires if I remember correctly. Behind those wires is the computer itself. I believe there are 2 or 4 screws holding it in and it pops right out. You take the cover off, and you will see the connectors, clean the connectors using a brillo pad until you get down to bare metal. Pop the chip on, and put it all back together. I did it in about 10 minutes in the parking lot of a radio shack lol.
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08-07-2005, 04:27 PM
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Re: SCT chip
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Senior Tech Advisor
Join Date: Jun 2003
City: Burlington, NC
State: North Carolina
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Sounds pretty good, but I would not advise using a brillo pad, its made of steel fibers and is a connector, use a green scrubbing pad instead, the plastic kind you get to scrub pots and pans with.
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08-07-2005, 04:35 PM
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Re: SCT chip
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postarama
Join Date: Aug 2003
City: Southaven
State: Mississippi
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I was told to use a brillo pad..just did it lightly. It did it fine, but I'll take your word for it man.
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-03 SB Cobra vert- 2552 of 5082 Born 02/25/03
Our's:
90 7up vert - new project
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08-08-2005, 09:08 AM
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Re: SCT chip
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 254
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I recomend using a little green scrubby pad, then some rougher grade sandpaper (60-100). The pad takes off the potting type material, and then use the sandpaper to take the connector down to copper, it is silver to start with, you just want to see a little copper.
BUT, on a newer car like yours I would go with an SCT X-cal1 or X-cal2, they are much easier to install since they flash through the OBD2 port, and the dealer will never know that anything was done. The X1s can be had for $299.
Send me an email.
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08-08-2005, 10:10 AM
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Re: SCT chip
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Cammed Baby!
Join Date: May 2003
City: Chicago 'Burbs
State: Illinois
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I think he already ordered it, But I agree going the X-cal route.
Much easier & more flexible.
That's why I am flashed now.
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08-08-2005, 12:42 PM
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Re: SCT chip
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
City: elyria
State: Ohio
Posts: 15
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an eraser works well too. |
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