ST24 Chipping

[HairyGit]

Hi. Have just bought an ST24 ( couldn't quite stretch to an ST200). I'm thinking about chipping it and wondered if anyone had chipped one of these and whether it makes any sort of real difference.
Cheers

[T88CAN]

Not had experience chipping a V6 but i did chip our Fiesta Zetec-S, did crude 30-70 times through the gears before and after and the "chipped" ecu was producing figures nearly 1.5 sec SLOWER than standard
Just as well it was a piggy back chip

[Zad]

Try the UK Mondeo forum on www.fordmondeo.org

Lots and lots of people have modified their V6s. I wouldn't bother with a cheapo Superchip type thing though, as you see they can result in worse performance.

Common mods include a secondary cat bypass, ST200 inlet manifolds and ST200 throttle body. I'm not totally convinced that K&N type filters produce any overall benefit, and they would need a custom ECU setup to show much extra power.

Mike

[ed400]

As Zad said really. One hint, if you are gonna go for an induction kit, get something like a Pipercross Viper as its sealed. Because of the underbonnet temps, the normal foam filters suffer from heatsoak and whilst it makes a lot of noise it wont give any more power...it will just lose! I know a lot of guys have used panel filters with Collins chips and a decent exhaust with good results.
I used to be part of www.stownersclub.com which is a good site, theres a new site too www.stdrivers.co.uk