Hi all, new owner of a 2006 base level coupe 13750 miles on her. I just did the passenger side oil recirc leak thingy. all went well I am good with RTV. Old school shade tree mechanic here. Under the hood I did find a G-Force performance chip do dad spliced into the harness near the MAF sensor. Quick research tells me its a vintage scam device that the originator was sued for in California , paid a 4ook fine and retired with the 15 million he made, no justice there. Previous owner said he did not install it but that the car did have a lot more 1, 2 gear pickup than his first Crossfire. Asking ya'll how legit is this?!!! Can I just cut it out of the harness and be happy? I am not a hot rodder, the ride is quick enough for my style. So What should I do , leave it be? or extract if from the car and return it to stock?? I know engines and motorcycles pretty well but also understand that a 2006 Crossfire can be pretty touchy on some issues and I dont want to take a good riding toy and turn it into a problem??!! Thanks in advance for all your hard earned knowledge.

 

Welcome to the family! Congrats on your Coupe!
As far as that chip goes, I wonder if the car had to be "tuned" for that chip. You could always try it and if there's a problem, put it back in.
As far as regular maintenance, there are a ton of posts on here. Like you, I do my own work. This thread might be helpful: My Journey with my 2006 roadster It's a maintenance history and vehicle history of my car.
When ever I work on my car I make a post of what I did with plenty of pictures with captions. The links are on the bottom of the first page.
Enjoy your Crossfire!

 

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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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