Wong'd and more
 

Know you guys probably get tired of hearing about it, but I just got a Steve Wong chip and it is unreal. My car, an 86 with 180k+ miles on it, has been awakened again. Low end torque is much better, midrange from 3k to 5k is simply astounding. My car already had the 4k dme and I've had to back my idle down a notch. But the product is truly top notch and works, to me, even better than advertised. Thanks Steve.

Also... on a side note... several months back I had no start condition and went through quite a bit of trouble-shooting, which included removing my DME and checking solders, etc. Well, since I've gotten the car running again.. I've experienced a rough cold start that I haven't been able to put my finger on. Starts one hit, but then is rough until I get it a little warmed up. Well, while installing the chip, Steve mentioned a little brown wire on the DME harness and explained what it was for. Apparently in my troubleshooting efforts, I had re-connected this wire and that was the cause of my rough idle issue. Cali cars have this wire connected for emissions reasons... I assumed it was something that came unhooked and connected it back. After changing out my chip and unhooking this brown connection... My cold start issues have disappeared.

Thanks again Steve Wong.

-Troy

Troy, is the brown wire you mention under the seat at the DME itself? Good info to know.

Welcome to the the club Troy....!

Jerry... Yes, the brown wire is at the big DME plug wire.. two brown ends with appropriate plug connectors on each. Your may be tape up where you can see it... mine has always been exposed. According to Steve Wong's doc, these should only be attached for California cars to aid in emissions. During my early troubleshooting efforts, I blindly reconnected this brown wire thinking that I had accidently pulled them apart.

-Troy

Troy,

Can you post a picture of the suspect wires?

I'd appreciate it if you could.

Thank you,
Matt

Yep... I'll see if I can get a shot of those wires for you.

yes, would like to see them, too! thanks for the post, troy..have a cyntex chip, but as soon as $$ allows, wong is going into my car. :)

hey, I'm not tired of hearing it - thanks for the plug Troy! Here's a pic of those brown wires:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1184714012.jpg

Steve, I PM'd you with a question about my chip (which I love, btw).

Does every car have the brown wires, or just those originally sold in CA? I just had my DME out to put in my new Steve W chip (which I love by the way!), and could not find these...

I have brown wires and mine is a Florida car since the day it came of the lot in 84

Hmm, I better check again, wonder if they are taped up and I can't see them. I did see one blue wire with a 2 prong connecter coming from the tunnel with nothing apparant to connect to, but I just chalked that up to some PO install of something...haven't traced it yet.

steve is the man, run his stuff in my cars.

I see Steve beat me to the punch on the photo... glad to plug your product Steve... it's awesome.

This brown wire thing has really sparked some interest. Mine looks about like what Steve posted. Here's a shot of mine...

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1184721549.jpg

learn something new every time I log on...thanks all and Steve!

would this brown wire be on a 1990 C4?

Of course not..
 

We will never get over too many steve's chips.. I have been using his products for many years, and cant ever use or want to use anything else....

Thanks Steve, for giving us something great to add to a great car!!SmileWavy :rolleyes:

If you are having real trouble finding them be aware they may have been cut- mine were at some point in the car's life. I can just barely see their remnants.

'of course not.."

was that in reply to my question, mobilewrks?

Jimmy, I had no idea - Thanks!!

Ryan, no such wires to worry about in the 964s. 3.2s only. But there's a lot of Cali cars floating all over the U.S. so check and disconnect.