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Best performance chip?

Discussion in '3rd Gen. Tacomas (2016-2023)' started by BossRiver9, Nov 25, 2022.

  1. Nov 25, 2022 at 5:51 PM
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    BossRiver9

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    Anyone know the best performance chip for a V6 2018 Toyota tacoma SR5?
    I've been trying to look but I've only seen mixed reviews of people saying they are either gimmicks or people say they work with no link to the chips they use. So any help would be much appreciated!
     
  2. Nov 25, 2022 at 5:53 PM
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    Best chip is a tune. Have it tuned and don’t look back .
    Edit.
    Forgot todays a Friday . Lol. It’s troll time. Great job trying OP
     
  3. Nov 25, 2022 at 5:53 PM
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    You may have better luck looking up tunes than chips.
     
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    Change my mind.
     
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  9. Nov 25, 2022 at 6:13 PM
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    Interest piqued.
     
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    Actually I just looked it up. $37 for one chip? Interest unpiqued.
     
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    Saw Joey chestnut eat one of those on YouTube. Worth watching, probably not trying.
     
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    We paid what..$70...$80?

    I say 'we' because they had just stopped making the original one some years back and I found one just after they discontinued them.

    Had my sales staff stay after working hours to witness one of my salesguys take the One Chip challenge (watchers put in their money for the chip).

    First 5-7 minutes was rather disappointing cause my salesman was just like "oh..yeah it's really hot" but that's it.

    Decided to head out only to get a call 2 minutes later "COME BACK, HECTOR IS CRYING IN PAIN. HE'S RUNNING HIS HEAD UNDER THE SINK, SAYS HE'S ON FIRE INSIDE" :rofl::rofl::rofl:

    Grabbed half a gallon of milk from the nearby store and headed back; holy shit he was drenched, coughing, gagging, the kid was dying :rofl::rofl::rofl:

    Took another 20 minutes or so for him to be able to sit back down and chill for a bit. Said it was the hottest and worst thing he's ever eaten and that he'll never do it again.

    I excused him from work the next day cause apparently it hurt just as bad coming out the other end. :rofl::rofl::rofl:
     
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    Thread done!
     
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    i would argue this makes for the "best performance chip"

    of course, everyone else gets to enjoy the performance instead of the person getting 'chipped'
     

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