Ezk chip worth

[Timmermans]

So I have a 1992 Volvo 240 with a B230FT engine and 16T turbo on 0.7 bar. Full 3 inch stainless exhaust. Volvo 850 injectors 0 280 155 759 350cc. I run a 962 Ecu without tuned chip, because my 984 Ecu with tuned chip kept giving problems (hunting idle when cold) I have a standard black Ezk with a Buchka wasted Spark setup. I have been reading stuff about Ezk chips and was wondering if this is worth the effort with my setup?

 

[shoestring]

The honest answer is: What results are you looking for? You've asked a really wide open question that could be approached from a lot of perspectives.

How would you be looking for PROMs to enhance your experience?

 

[KortStubin]

For that I'd say yes you want an ignition chip unless you're a maso into small pinging and changing headgaskets every now and then.

 

[Timmermans]

I mostly want a reliable setup and reasonable mpg when i'm not pushing the car to it's limit. I use it as a daily driver.

Which EZK chip/daughterboard do you guys recommend at the moment? Do I need to combine this with an ECU chip?

 

[OVERDRIVE]

User bobxyz is having some daughterboards made right now, if you're good at soldering. Otherwise find a 207 or 209 goldbox.

Again, We can't tell you what ignition timing map will work best for your engine. Will your car benefit from an actual tune, where someone tweaks the the ignition map on a dyno? Of course. What mystery ignition map from any of the available sources will work best with your engine? We can't tell. I've had engines that benefit from an EZK chip, and then after some tweaks to the cylinder head, compression, cam etc the stock chip worked best.

 

[dl242gt]

I added an an EZK chiped box to my mostly stock B230F in my old classic wagon. The standard timing map for a n/a car is really missing something following the experience of putting in just an EZK chip. The only mods were a V15 cam, Simons exhaust and the EZK chipped box.
I would say it is worth it if you know the tune is from someone good at fine tuning stock programming. I got my car up to 445k miles on that setup. I installed it at about 275k miles.