i am going to put a chip in my truck but have no clue where it goes or what kind to get i want more performance

 

What is your trucks specs?

Those chips are mostly junk IMHO. Your best bang for buck upgrade is a set of longtube headers and a custom y-pipe.

 

The only thing a chip will do for you is advance the timing and you can do that for free by turning the distributor. Spend some time reading through the pages on this forum there is lots of good info on performance improvements.

 

Bump the timing up to 13 or 14 degrees BTC, it will do you as much as a chip in a gas burner.. 99% of what a chip does is bump the timing...

 

my cousin had a chip in his pontiac car and it was alot faster and then he took it out and it was slower i thot there performance chips cuz they make it get up and go faster

 

well like ive posted before i want more off the line speed and better gears but not wanting to spend 800 to 1000 bucks to change gears so looking for something better

 

Read through the forum here. Lots if good tips. The chip is a waste of money on these trucks. You can do little at a time but gears are your best off the line improvement. Figure about $400-500 an axle to regear.

 

Truck specs?

Motor, trans, year, 4x4, model current gearing etc

What do you use the truck for mostly? Many things need said here to get the best advice.

You cousins car is just that. A car. TOTALLY different animal

 

ya thats what they were pricing me

 

Odds are your cousins car was an OBD II vehicle. They can and do respond better to ECM tuning and chips. I know if it has a 3800 S/C in it, they go like a raped ape with very little work. Going to need to turn some wrenches to make power with these, you need to work for your power!

 

Chips for these trucks are a waste of money. Spend some time on here reading. You will learn a lot.

 

As everyone has already said, A chip for these trucks is just a waste of money. You will have to get your hands dirty, and do some mechanical work, but in the end, you can feel the difference. Stock engine? Headers and a Cam. Speed Density? Cam within reason. Also I'd go ahead and do a 6L tune up on it as well. If your really wanting to make a difference, if you can convert it to MAF, put new heads on, along with the Headers and a more aggressive cam, and check the Gears in it.

If you want power with these old tanks, your going to spend money. Plain and simple.

 

Still don't know what truck we are dealing with...

 

Chips are only good if custom tuned for your particular setup by an expierenced tuner. An off the shelf chip is a waste. Normally you only want a chip if you have made serious other performance modifications to the motor and you want to tune the eec to respond to these changes. There is a recent post on here about a turbo 460....read that thread and it has links to other threads on tuning. On a stock setup with a custom tune you can create a custom timing curve (to get timing all in quicker)....bumping the distributor just moves the timing up a couple of degrees on the stock tables across the board. With a custom burn you can change when, where, and how fast you want the timing to be all in. You can also change some soft transmissions settings, if you have an electronically controlled tranny, other than that there is really nothing you would want to change on a stock setup. You can turn off EGR and Thermactor Pump and stuff like that so you get no CEL's from and EGR or Smog delete.

 

x2, but after a custom chip is burned, you can't fine tune it any more without taking it back to the tuner, thats its tune and thats it (some you can get two or three tunes out of one payment, but then your paying the piper everytime you want to change something). If you go that far you might as well go with an aftermarket ECU such as megasquirt, FAST, etc. and put in the time on the dyno.

however, like everybody else has said, its pointless and throwing money away until you have already upgraded exhaust, heads, cam, gears, etc. and then you need a really good understanding of tuning (or pay someone who does)

however with your truck being a 94, it should be MAF, and can handle an boat-load more than a speed-density system.