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Hello and welcome to the forum and congrats on your car! Can you snap a picture and post it in the reply here (with where and how it is 'spliced' into the system). That 'chip', you mention that is 'spliced' near the MAF sensor, it sounds like it is designed to fool the ECU control of the engine.. Do you mean it is plugged into the MAF sensor and the cable is plugged into this 'chip'? If so, take it out of the circuit and replace the OEM plug back into the MAF sensor. Before you drive the car again do the "Throttle Body Reset" outlined in the forum (do a search for the document collection that is free to all members) and you should be OK. IF this 'chip' is physically wired into the wiring, then you have a different thing going on here. Those 'plug-n-play power/performance 'chips' usually fool the engine into adding more fuel into each cylinder thereby giving a boost of performance BUT you are causing more carbon/wear on your engine since the ECU tunes to the exhaust along with the IAT and MAF sensors in it's fuel/air tables. I would suggest you get rid of it like John (M60A3Driver) said, and see if you have any problems. I would also like to see this thing in the car, so if you can please before you try to remove it, post a picture in the forum (I hope the forum allows the posting as there used to be a restriction on new members).


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