[Howie-VL]

Does anybody happen to have a Chip for a NA VL auto?

If not, does anybody know how much one would roughly cost, where I could get one from (hafta try wreckers I spose) and are they worth it in bang for buck?

[xlr8ta]

What other mods have you done to your car?
Buying a chip upgrade with no other mods to your car will give you little to no gains.
I personally am not a big fan of 'chip upgrades' at any stage, even when buying say a cam and chip package and fitting to your car, you would get better results from a custom tune.
Consider this.....
The programming on a commercially available chip is set so it will work for a particular engine, but it is set so that it will work safely with a standard exhaust, or a full 3" exhaust upgrade, it will work with standard air filter or pod filter and so many other variable.
Having it set to allow for such a broad spectrum of mods will never work aswell as a custom tune for the exact setup of your car.

[Howie-VL]

So I should just get a couple more mods, then go get a wikid dyno tune at fueltech or something u think?

[xlr8ta]

What you got at the moment?
You could put extractors, full exhaust, pod and cold air filter on it running standard computer and will run well (custom tune at this stage may get you a tad more power but not worth it IMHO).
Personally I wouldn't worry about a custom tune unless you were putting a bigger cam in it, but then why do that to a NA VL when you could drop in a turbo motor for not much more $$$$$$

[Howie-VL]

It may sound stupid.. But I wanna make lots of power NA. I wanna put an RB25 head on it at some stage. I will be gettin extractors in the next month or so. I have a custom cold air intake wiv K&N panel and a 2 1/2 zorst into 3inch tail pipe. Also looking at XF falcon throttle body and I wanna play round wiv the trans soon as this one is about to die.

[Murph]

Vl's don't have a chippable computer either from memory, think ya need to get the one thats in the car reprogrammed

[Howie-VL]

So I need one outa an ex cop car or something?

[xlr8ta]

ex cop chip won't be much use for what you want to do.
If your looking at changing head and throttle body, maybe even look at aftermarket computer, heap of ability for tuning adjustments as required.

[Howie-VL]

I may as well add this in here as well. Will I get much more out of a different fuel pump? Mine is sorta noisey so I think It might die sometime, so I was thinkin could I, and if I did, would puttin and SS one on, or a turbo one on be better? What is the better sorta upgrade? Would I make more power?

[Rev-Hed]

Not much use having a different pump on unless your gunna be running 9 sec' quater ponders!

[xlr8ta]

A larger fuel pump won't make any more power, it just allows more fuel flow to support other mods that make more power

[Howie-VL]

what should be my next mod then? After the zorst is fully done, the indcution done and throttle body? Porting?

[VLHERO]

For the price of an RB25 head you could almost turbo it twice!