| If you are looking for information on increasing the | | | | plug into the vehicles wiring harness that you can |
| horsepower, torque and fuel mileage on your diesel | | | | adjust and disable on the fly. |
| pickup or medium duty truck, please take a moment to | | | | Diesel Performance Chips are easy to install with |
| read this article.A performance chip or power | | | | torque gains up to 200 lbs/ft or add up to 171 ponies |
| programmer may be what you are interested in | | | | under the hood depending on the specific vehicle.For |
| learning about. A programmer, or a downloader, is a | | | | simplicities sake, we will just call them all chips. They |
| hand held tuning computer with the capability of | | | | work by adjusting the vehicles timing curve, shift point, |
| reprogramming the vehicles onboard computer by | | | | the rev, and speed limiters, and the fuel rate. They are |
| plugging into the underdash diagnostic port . Some are | | | | to use and do not void the warranty. However if you |
| even code readers in the some unit. A chip is a | | | | take you truck to the dealer, it is a good idea to |
| replacement part that upgrades your stock | | | | remove the programming just in case they have a |
| component. There are also modules and chips that | | | | factory software upgrade for your computer. |