I'm not sure if any of you have seen the new scam people are pulling on ebay, but 5 or 6 people are in on it now, and personally i'm pissed off about it. Basically people are offereing performance chips for our honda's that "gain up to 20hp" but yet the cost is below 10 bucks. I went ahead and purchased one to check it out to see what it was all about it, and what I got was a 5 ohm resistor that bypasses your intake air temp sensor by jumping the two wires together with the resistor. All it did was set a check engine light in my car. Others claim sucsess with theirs, but everyone I talk to got a different resistence resistor than I did. Mine was 5 ohms the person that claimed his worked got a 13,000 ohm and a 3,000 ohm one. Now i've checked a 2,000 ohm resistor and it drops the voltage to basically nothing in other words making telling the computer to back down fuel and back down the timing, i could be backwards on this. Anyway I've reported this to ebay they don't care but people have been getting ripped off for 30 bucks on these 50 cent resistors that do nothing but set a check engine light or hurt your car's performance. Anyway if any of you have reasearched what the intake air temp sensor actual purpose it has I think this could be a good discussion, because obvioulsy there is power to come from the right tricking of this sensor, but what voltage do we need to trick to get it.

 

Those "low-cost, large-gain" mods tha people sell on eBay are almost always bogus. The "electric turbo" comes to mind.

 

My point is after 100s of people are getting scammed off it and people are reporting it ebay should do something to stop it. Most aftermarket companies make millions off ignorant consumers which is a bunch of bull@)#@ and i'm sick of it. As a consumer and supporter of the aftermarket import world it's our job to make life hell for companies that sell bogus products.

 

tricking sensors just isnt my bag...baby.

 

oh behave

 

Also,if you did find a chip that wasn't bogus,the problem with them is the maps they use to model them are from highly modded race cars,and will make any other car run like absolute crap.

 

It's sometimes called the Placebio effect. Scamming uninformed consumers is nothing new. Unfortunatly.

Think back to the "tonics" and "elixers" of many years ago... some were nothing more than sugar water in a fancy bottle and hell of a sales pitch.

A placebio is just a lump of sugar in the form of a pill. When pill makers test their pills on say 100 people... they give half of them the sugar pills and tell them what it's supposed to do and the other half they give them the real pills and tell them what it's supposed to do. But no one is told which pill they got. It's to weed out the liars and peole that are just more "taken for a ride" by something someone says rather than what it's actually doing.

So if someone spends $30 on this chip... and thinks they are going faster... they got what they paid for. The idea that they are going faster. It's lame. I wish it would stop... as long as there's stupid people... it'll never stop.

 

Well hey if you can't beat them maybe you should cash in on it. If anyone is interested i'll be selling air. Air will give you anywhere from 0-5000 horsepower, by buying my air from me for 10 bucks a can your assuring that your car will be getting that critical air it needs in case we get sucked into a black hole and you'll still be able to make 1000 horsepower even though it won't matter because you'll still have your head up your ass!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry i'm just venting and being retarted.

 

well, i'm selling higher quality air with no less than a 70% nitrogen mix. :fawk:

 

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