What Are These From?

[Oaksey]

I found these in my glovebox a while back, anyone know what they are from/for?

Thanks.

[rs73]

looks like somebody was up to no good with your car.

it looks like chips from the ECU? perhaps your car has been re-chipped (like powerchip).

apart from what looks like a 'bonus' it actually could be a sign of caution as you don't know what air/fuel mixture was tuned in the re-chipped computer, and knowing that is in the car, you would guess that there is a chance that your (ab)used car's engine had been properly (ab)used by the previous owner on some hills or racetracks in Japan...

[Oaksey]

Thanks rs73. The engine runs fine, have got it serviced at a couple of places that deal with the cars in Perth and they've both said it's all in good order. One of my guesses would be something like power chip but there are electronics for other stuff as well. Would be interesting to know though, because I would consider getting the ECU reflashed but obviously if it has already done there isn't much point. Could also be that the chips that correspond to these in the car are the non-stock ones or the stock ones could have been put back in. I got a powerchip for my last car and it was all good, I always use 98RON anyway.

[rs73]

well I had powerchip too in my old Mitsubishi Galant hatchback (SOHC) - which I think was a total waste of my money as I didn't get any noticeable performance increase out of it.

[Stephen Thorpe]

well I had powerchip too in my old Mitsubishi Galant hatchback (SOHC) - which I think was a total waste of my money as I didn't get any noticeable performance increase out of it.

what did you expect from a SOHC Galant... enough power to pull the skin off a rice pudding?

[Chris Rogers]

I wondered where I left those

555 timer and a inverter IC- has to do with the IR repeater thats in there. had a glitch with it and put a new set in there.

[rs73]

what did you expect from a SOHC Galant... enough power to pull the skin off a rice pudding?

same state of mind of any car-illiterate bogans prior to Skyline ownership 10 years ago.

[Oaksey]

I wondered where I left those

555 timer and a inverter IC- has to do with the IR repeater thats in there. had a glitch with it and put a new set in there.

Yeah I wondered if it had something to do with you did Chris, thanks, mystery solved

rs73: Last car that I had that the powerchip went in, it was a noticeable improvement, got it from a friend and from memory he was good enough to let me try it and make him an offer, so I decided it was worthwhile but wouldn't have been if I had to pay full price for it new (maybe $250 vs $550?)

[Stephen Thorpe]

but there is 2 555 timers... isn't there?