Superchips ICON - anyone know anything a

[Peter Wales]

 my guess on how it works is that it
>connects between the coil drivers coming out of the standard ECU and
>the coil pack. It intercepts the coil on/off signals from the ECU,
>modifies them dependent on an RPM-in Spark-Modifier-out 2-D Map


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>For what it's worth, I'd guess it has a PIC inside and probably not
>a lot else apart from some coil drivers and circuit protection
>logic. 

You are both (Brian and Paul) absolutely correct. The ICON has an EPROM with
a modified timing curve, pic and a few bits of glue circuitry and protection
stuff, and a very pretty box :)

The ICON is suitable for  mildly modified engines and stock engines, but you
have to remember that the load is reverse calculated from the RPM and the
timing and if it is wildly different from stock, the new timing will be
wrong. Of course we can make a custom one, but we need to get the car on our
dyno to do it.



Peter Wales
President Superchips Inc
Chairman Superchips Ltd        "Timing is everything"
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