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I m considering chipping my engine. Its a 93 H22a so i m wondering what do u guys suggest? have any of you dealt with Mark at allhonda.com? I emailed him and he said that i will leave him with my ecu and he will chip it for me and it will take a couple of days for $150. Do you guys know anywhere else dat would do it?

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zman

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depends, what other modifications do you have done? Do you have I/H/E? Cams? Raised compression?
If not, i'd say its a complete waste of time, unless you plan on doing these things in the near future, but still i'd say wait until you have done them.
Chipping your ecu (in my opinion) is a waste of time, even if you have all of the above mentioned items. All these generic chips do is advance your ignition timing a whole bunch to make it seem like your car is faster when in reality all it did was move the powerband down in the rpm range, that and dump and bunch of extra fuel, especially at idle, or lower your vtec x-over point to some rediculously low setting.
Now, if you are getting a custom program burned to the chip, using uberdata/crome and a dyno then it is a very good method of engine management.
If you do get your ecu chipped make sure to get a zif socket installed. A zif socket is just a socket that solders to the board so that you can just plug the chip into the zif socket instead of soldering the chip to the board and having to re-solder it everytime you wanna burn a new .bin file to the chip and run it in your ecu....it makes life so much easier, and is something that every ecu modifying place should do....hope this helps.