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raedareeg
7th August, 2012, 09:27 PM
hi

just wanted to know how chiptuning started,maybe the first company on the public,the first person????any info

Stanton
7th August, 2012, 11:09 PM
First instances would be in motorsport applications derived from road cars.

Ie a stock road car engine/ecu being tuned for race use.

Kinda spirals from there.

Im sure many companies would like to lay claim to being the first independents, but who knows.

oldford
8th August, 2012, 07:58 AM
One of the first companies I know of, was Detection Techniques. Established in 1977 by Peter Wales and was renamed Superchips in 1991. The reason for the rename probably was that a lot of people used the name "Destruction Techniques" because of a lot of blown engines.