scary.. Mod your Prius with a "CHIP"

Are they still selling those things!! :lol: Those things have been around for years. I don't know what damage they can to a ordinary car and it's computer but I piety the poor smuck that puts one on a prius. It is right up there with the vortex/turbo thingie that you put on your air intake. God bless P.T. Barnum.

 

Sort of like those power boxes you can buy for a Dodge Ram with the Cummins turbodiesel. They plug into the harness between the PCM and the engine, and "trick" the PCM into delivering way more power.

I suppose that's fine until you destroy your transmission and then try to persuade your dealer to provide a warranty repair.

I find nothing lacking about the power of my Prius. Indeed, with the winter tires on, I can blow away anything around here when there is snow/ice on the road.

 

Well, maybe. But if you have a Holden, with an LS-1 V8, any of the performance programs and chips that work here in North America will work in Australia.

You have some interesting cars there. I like the Commodore SS:

http://www.holden.com.au/www-holden/action...ew?modelid=4005

Is that thing as blistering fast as it looks??

 

I don't think these things replace any of the ECUs they just send false data and make the car run harder, at least that is what I have been told. I suspect it would be a short run for your Prius. Reminds me of a friend of mine in college who had a Sunbeam Tiger (289 Ford in a Britt roadster). His father made superchargers and he had one fitted to the car, lasted less that a year. Shame because you could just keep the rubber on the road in that car as it was.