Quadzilla has entered the seven three power stroke switchable chip market
with the introduction of their Arachnid chip. Now, the Arachnid chip, one thing that's different
about this chip is this is actually an eight-positioned chip. Normally,
what we see with the switchable chips, it's a six-position offering. This is actually an
eight-position offering, so you get a couple of extra power levels on here that you don't get
with some of the other offerings out there. So, let's talk about what you get when you purchase
a Quadzilla Arachnid chip for your seven three power stroke. First off, you're going to get
full color instructions. I really, really like this. Quadzilla did a good job on these,
several videos out there on installing switchable chips on power strokes. But if you're one of these
guys that likes to read the instructions, this is a really, really good manual. They did a really,
really good job on this. All right, let's talk about the chip itself.
This is the chip that actually goes on your PCM or your computer for your seven three power stroke.
This is a little bit shorter chip than what we usually see. Some other chips have done this
through the year. This is just a little bit more compact offering. You don't have quite as much of
the chip that is into the PCM board that might touch another electrical component on the PCM
board and hurt it. This is just a little bit more compact. So, just a little bit better there. It's
got the Quadzilla logo etched onto it. This comes in a static shield bag, and it's going to keep
you from having any electromagnetic who-dewey bull crap that goes on there screwing up your chip.
Now, let's talk about the wire for the chip and the switch itself. Our switch, again, this is
an eight position switch. You've got your first position, which would be your stock. Then this is
your high idle position, and then, three, four, five, six, seven, and the eighth position. So,
you heard all the clicks there. There's eight positions here. Your highest level, and this is
going to be 140 horsepower, we have each of the different power levels called out on the website,
telling you what each different power level is, but just wanted to show you that that's
a true eight-position switch there. The cable that comes for the switch... Now,
the switch, the actual rotary switch itself is detachable from the cable. And then,
obviously, it hooks right into the chip itself. But one thing I wanted to show you guys on this,
the switch has got a little bit smaller connectors. And what that means is on your
plastic case that the actual engine computer sits in or the PCM sits in,
you can drill a lot smaller hole for this wire to go through, so that makes it really nice.
You don't have to drill out a big hogging hole for this. It's just a smaller hole,
three eighths inch, and you're good to go there. For your rotary switch, you've got a
knurled metal knob that comes with it. Quadzilla also sends you a label for inside of your truck,
and that way, you know what position that you're on all the time. Got a little drill
template that comes with that. That's a little detail that's really nice there. And then,
the Allen wrench for the set screw that comes for your knobs. So, that's a nice feature
too. You don't have to go searching for an Allen wrench. Quadzilla's going to send it for you.
Now, we know cleaning the contacts on the PCM in these seven three power strokes is the
number one thing that people do wrong when they're installing this. So, Quadzilla's going to send you
a new Scotch-Brite pad. This is really helpful to get the contacts cleaned off for you. Also,
they send you an alcohol swab. The alcohol swab on this installation is used in a couple of different
areas. One, it can clean up these... It can do the surface prep for where your switch label can
be. And Quadzilla does another thing here. They send you a large sticker in their kit, full color
sticker. I don't know what the sizing is on this. You can actually use this alcohol swab as well for
cleaning the surface on the PCM because Quadzilla suggests that you take this sticker, once that the
chip is on the PCM, take this sticker right here, and what you can do is you cover up that chip,
and obviously, let your cord around that. But that's going to help to hold the chip in
as well, make sure that chip doesn't walk off of the computer. Especially,
you guys that maybe haven't got a truck that's already had the plastic cases being cut up,
and this chip will want to walk if it doesn't have the plastic case around it. If you've got that,
Quadzilla sends this big ole sticker for you. And it lets people know if they're working on your
trailer, hey, this has got a performance chip on it. There it is. But this covers that up and holds
your chip onto the PCM board. Then you get another Quadzilla sticker to rock on your truck so people
know what kind of power you've got there. Then you get a couple of zip ties just for clean up on your
installation, get your cords out of the way so you don't kick them or anything else.
So, yeah, that's it. Quadzilla Arachnid. This is a seven three switchable chip for your '95 to '03
power stroke vehicles. We have got the computer codes for excursions, the pickups, some E-series
stuff, California. So, if you don't see what you're looking for, just give us a call. We'll
see if we've got the tunes for you. If you've got any questions on Quadzilla's Arachnid chip,
or any other Quadzilla products, or any seven three performance stuff, just give us a call.
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