ebay "intake chip" Fraud?
I'm just trying to get some opinions and feedback on these. I'm not sure if anyone has come across these items on ebay, if not just do a search for honda intake chip and you'll see a bunch of people selling these so called performance upgrades, but what you won't see is anyone emailing you back explaining why their product doesn't work and just sets a check engine light, nor will they have any answer to why they claim that this product will not in no way damage your engine. Have any of you ordered one of these yet and had any sucsess with it? The theory behind it may actually work, all though they are selling the wrong resistors or at least the person I ordered from is. Basically here's the scoop on it, it's very inexpensive, but all you get is a 20 cent resistor that you use to bypass your intake air temp sensor, only problem is you jump the two wires that plug into your intake sensor with the resistor and it just sends 5 volts back to your ecm and sets a code immieditaly because the ecm thinks that either your sensor is bad or you have a short. So this product has no chance of working because it red flags your intake air sensor and no longer looks to it for input, therfore it hurts performance. Anyway if anyone is curious to no how exactly this method could work, or wants to know more detail about this to try and get some more power for 1 dollar or however much you can by a resistor for keep this thread going and i'll keep you up to date on my reasearch on this.