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What is the best diesel performance chip?

How many miles are too many miles to put a performance chip on a ford 7.3L diesel engine?

  • i have a 2001 ford f-250 and i have been thinking about adding a performance chip to increase horsepower and torque, it has about 218xxx miles on it. ok to procede or bad idea??

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    I don't think it is a bad idea as long as your not trying to achieve 400+hp. I have an '01 Cummins with over 230k that has had a mild chip (Edge EZ) since around 70k. I had a '95 7.3L PSD that had a Banks chip and I put over 240k on it and it had been chipped for at least 6 years. Don't get stupid and drive it hard. Monitor your EGTs and you will be fine. Get one.

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Miles does not matter that much, a brand new engine could be totaled in 5 minutes of extremely abuse and 0 miles on it. Go on with the chip, you can use a car performance simulator to evaluate other performance options for any car and see them in action, try at http://www.nxgtrsim.com

Charly Brown

As long as the engine is in good shape you could add a turbo. But performance chips are pure junk and cause the cars to run lean. And really the power is nothing at all. You need to look into a good diesel programmer. Look on jegs.com or summit racing. Chips are junk!!!!

Bill

Bill, all Powerstrokes and virtually all automotive and commercial diesels have turbos already!

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