I was wondering if someone can tell me where my computer is located on my 1986 Cougar with a 302 engine? I bought a JET performance chip and I want to see if it does anything.
Thanks!
Behind the right side kick panel.
Passenger side kick panel, behind the plastic.
And the chip won't do jack shiznit. Throw it in the trash, or get a refund.
Seriously.
It's the parts you can't see that will make the real power...HO cam, E7 or GT40 heads, bigger exhaust, injectors, etc etc...
Chips are really best for seriously modded engines that there are no factory tunes for...such as a blown and nitrous fed engine...even then, to get the most out of it, it needs tuned on a dyno by a trained technician.
Hope you didn't spend a lot for this chip...
Problem is, I have to deal with emissions here. If I didn't, I'd just drop in another engine.
Emissions or not, the chip is only going to affect your wallet.
As long as you have good cats, a properly functioning smog pump, and all the parts between it and the Thermactor and EGR are working, heads, and HO cam will get past emissions. After all, they were factory equipment on '87 up Stangs and Mark VII 5.0 cars....
Let me reiterate, the chip will not help you with emissions, power gain, freedom of speech, gun control, or penile enlargement. It WILL lighten your wallet though. If those chips did anything, we'd all have 'em in our sigs as a mod lol.
shiznit, there goes my last ray of hope...
Yeh...you 'n me both..:eek:
now I want some pringles.... thanks
did someone say ChiPs?
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I could have bought cases of pringles for what I paid for the Jet chip. Oh well, as long as I have food in the fridge and a roof over my head......I'm good. Thanks!
Putting those in your car would not be a good modification either.
Might be room in the trunk....
Generally speaking old school chips like a Jet, just jack up the timing. Which will require premium fuel, on a 155 HP 5.0 hmmm. If u want more timing just up the base timing from 10 to 12-13. It will do the same thing for free.
Good luck,
Travis
So, if I advance the timing a little (I usually do) AND put my might Jet chip in.....who knows, I might get........ oh-oh, that's 155 hp new, my car is 26 years old. So, back to the equation.... about 120 hp, advance the timing and hook up the mighty Jet chip and...... Jeez, sure is a good thing I like my car. I better get back to work. Thanks!
In some cases a chip really can help a basically stock car. With the basically smooth cam the Ford installed in our cars with the 5.0....its going to be rough to gets lots of power, chip aside. That is why the HO swap is so popular!
Travis
I get the feeling that emissions here in Arizona is almost as bad as California. Like I say, I need to take a day and go down there and talk to them. My engine is stock other than an MSD-6 box, MSD distributor, K&N filter, and a H/P ler. Not much to speak of. I've never even had time to check the compression on it, but as many miles as it has on it I'm not too optimistic.
Frank
If anything, the three mods you mentioned, leaving the ler aside, can only improve emissions performance. The tighter tolerances of the MSD distributor, combined with the multi-spark of the MSD-6 can only cause more of the fuel to be burned, resulting in more efficiency as an air pump and thus,cleaner emissions. Will such mods offset the sloppiness of a worn out engine, umm, NO. Can it hurt...also a no. What is stupid to me is that in some states replacing steel pulleys with aluminum or plumbing in an intercooler or using an open filament air cleaner can lead to failure of an emissions test visually, without even bothering to perform the tailpipe sniff test. I got my TC because it failed the sniff test in VA, but passed here in TN with flying colors after cleaning the TB, unclogging the EGR and replacing the PCV valve. She passed well below the federally mandated minimums, let alone maximum and she now has over 250,000 miles on the clock.
I didn't tell you that my EGR was clogged and so was the coolant lines to my EGR spacer. I tried finding new gaskets for the spacer and the dealership even told me that they are obsolete. So, I will have no choice but to hook up the lines and block them off. No loss.
Your dealer is wrong. I just got through replacing mine during my engine swap a couple months ago. They're in the aftermarket, and they're fine.
TheFoeYouKnow,
The only ones I found in the aftermarket would not fit my stock throttle body. The smallest aftermarket gasket that I could find was for a 65mm. I tried making up my own, but they would always saturate and send water into the upper intake manifold. So, that is why I have blocked the coolant lines. If you know where I can get the two EGR spacer gaskets, I would be grateful if you told me! Thanks!
The ones I used initially were for 55mm and they didn't work for me solely because I have 65mm parts. They were Victor and the only one that seals coolant is between the spacer and the upper. The victor gasket is identical to the oem, with reinforcements and sealer coating. The TB gasket only seals air, so it's ok that its only paper. Check your surfaces before you replace the gasket again, make sure there's no damage.
Surfaces look pretty good. Probably because the coolant lines have been plugged for some time. Thanks for the information. I will probably buy a couple, being I'm going to keep this car.