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Superchips Limited is a British company specialising in engine management tuning
Chip tuning

Chip tuning refers to changing or modifying an EPROM chip in a car's or other vehicle's electronic control unit to achieve better performance, whether it be more power, cleaner emissions, or better fuel economy....
.

The history of Superchips can be traced back to 1976, when founder Peter Wales discovered that the ECU
Engine Control Unit

An engine control unit is an electronic control unit which controls various aspects of an internal combustion engine's operation. The simplest ECUs control only the quantity of fuel injected into each cylinder each engine cycle....
 of a Mitsubishi Starion Group A race car could be modified for fast road use. He reprogrammed the chip to deliver more power and torque – which led to a number of Group N championship wins for the Mitsubishi in the mid-1980s – and went on to develop a range of chips for a number of turbocharged cars.

The company's early conversions involved the physical replacement of a chip in the vehicle’s ECU.






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Superchips Limited is a British company specialising in engine management tuning
Chip tuning

Chip tuning refers to changing or modifying an EPROM chip in a car's or other vehicle's electronic control unit to achieve better performance, whether it be more power, cleaner emissions, or better fuel economy....
.

The history of Superchips can be traced back to 1976, when founder Peter Wales discovered that the ECU
Engine Control Unit

An engine control unit is an electronic control unit which controls various aspects of an internal combustion engine's operation. The simplest ECUs control only the quantity of fuel injected into each cylinder each engine cycle....
 of a Mitsubishi Starion Group A race car could be modified for fast road use. He reprogrammed the chip to deliver more power and torque – which led to a number of Group N championship wins for the Mitsubishi in the mid-1980s – and went on to develop a range of chips for a number of turbocharged cars.

The company's early conversions involved the physical replacement of a chip in the vehicle’s ECU. Today, however, most conversions are carried out by connecting a laptop computer to the vehicle's diagnostic port and reprogramming the existing chip with one of a vast database of conversion programs, each produced for a specific make, model and ECU software reference.

Nowadays Superchips Limited offers remaps for an extensive range of cars and other vehicles with turbo-diesel
Turbodiesel

Turbodiesel refers to any diesel engine with a turbocharger. Turbocharging is the norm rather than the exception in modern car and truck diesel engines....
 and turbo-
Turbocharger

A turbocharger, or turbo, is a gas compressor used for forced induction of an internal combustion engine. Like a supercharger, the purpose of a turbocharger is to increase the mass of air entering the engine to create more power....
 and naturally aspirated petrol
Gasoline

File:GasCan.jpgGasoline or petrol is a petroleum-derived liquid mixture, primarily used as fuel in internal combustion engines.It consists mostly of aliphatic hydrocarbons, enhanced with iso-octane or the aromatic hydrocarbons toluene and benzene to increase its octane rating....
 engines.

Superchips Limited is frequently employed to provide technical consultancy by vehicle manufacturers as well as a large number of race and rally teams. The company also provides technical scrutineering services for race series around the world.

In 1992, Superchips Inc. was established in the USA, where the company provides conversions for all major makes of American car, as well as having a strong involvement in motorsport. Superchips Inc. was sold to MSD Ignition in 2005 .

Bluefin


A recent development from Superchips Limited is a hand-held, ‘DIY’ tuning kit called Bluefin, which allows owners to perform the conversion themselves, quickly and easily, to Superchips’ predetermined settings. Bluefin is available for an increasing range of vehicles, and various versions offer additional functionality including fault code reading, immobilisation and live data logging.

Trade marks


Superchips and Bluefin are the registered trade marks of Superchips Limited in the European Union .

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