The Edge Performance Chip
...t the installation of the chip. It plugs into almost every sensor on the vehicle, from the Cam Position Sensor to the Engine Temperature Sensor. They also quote, "the juice is the brain." After listing all of the components this chip integrates with, they continue with the installation and that it’s one of the easier chips to install. Wescot says, “your main task will be routing the wires in such a fashion that everything appears stock.” Before going out and running the chip, Wescot covers what the chip does and the stages. The article continues on how the chio really works and the results you should see. Wescot says the chip is a 5 stage chip; Level 0 is stock, Level 1 is mileage, Level 2 is for normal drive, Level 3 is for towing, Level 4 is for racing conditions, and Level 5 is for extreme. They state that an estimated gain of 75 additional horsepower and 200 lbs of torque is expected. Finally they get to the point of testing, their stock horsepower was 194.97, and the diesel had 421.6 lbs of torque at the wheels at 2,250 RPM. After installing the chip, they put it on a dyno and report that with the Edge Performance Chip on l Level 5 they had horsepower gains of 89 and 217.8 lbs of torque at 2,250 RPM. Giving them an overall rating of 284.6 horsepower and 639.4 lbs of maximum torque from this chip. Now they move onto the real test, “the open road test.” To see how the vehicle can really perform with the Edge Performance Chip on it. Wescot states, on their open road test, they drove from Ogden, Utah to Nevada City, California. Which is 587 miles, including a climb over the Sierra Mountains. Wescot states that on steep roads the fuel mileage was reduced by 17%. He also tells, how on most climbs he never had to shift out of sixth gear. On a trip to Baja, California, with a gross vehicle and trailer weight of 14,000 pounds he only had to down shift to fifth gear once. The article goes on to say, that over a 1,000 miles of Baja conditions, the chip proves to be reliable in all of them. He also states that, “with the Edge Performance Chip, y...