Would you remap a FWD turbo ?
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Update ...
Remap now done by Superchips - They took the keys off me at about 8.30am, I went into Buckingham for a coffee, walked back and picked up the car at 10.30
All done, no issues - checked first for faults, rolling roaded, remap put on, checked for faults and run up on the rolling road again. Quick drive out to do a final check and then given back to me ....
As standard it produced 229bhp - spot on but less than some. Mine has only done 5K round town so that may be a reason. Nonetheless it was producing exactly what the maker said
Post remap it produced 295 bhp
..... 66bhp up on what I had as standard
Cost
Remap now done by Superchips - They took the keys off me at about 8.30am, I went into Buckingham for a coffee, walked back and picked up the car at 10.30
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All done, no issues - checked first for faults, rolling roaded, remap put on, checked for faults and run up on the rolling road again. Quick drive out to do a final check and then given back to me ....
As standard it produced 229bhp - spot on but less than some. Mine has only done 5K round town so that may be a reason. Nonetheless it was producing exactly what the maker said
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Post remap it produced 295 bhp
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[QUOTE=John57,Nov 20 2008, 04:58 AM] Update ...
Remap now done by Superchips - They took the keys off me at about 8.30am, I went into Buckingham for a coffee, walked back and picked up the car at 10.30
All done, no issues - checked first for faults, rolling roaded, remap put on, checked for faults and run up on the rolling road again. Quick drive out to do a final check and then given back to me ....
As standard it produced 229bhp - spot on but less than some. Mine has only done 5K round town so that may be a reason. Nonetheless it was producing exactly what the maker said
Post remap it produced 295 bhp
..... 66bhp up on what I had as standard
Cost
Remap now done by Superchips - They took the keys off me at about 8.30am, I went into Buckingham for a coffee, walked back and picked up the car at 10.30
![biggrin.gif](https://www.s2ki.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
All done, no issues - checked first for faults, rolling roaded, remap put on, checked for faults and run up on the rolling road again. Quick drive out to do a final check and then given back to me ....
As standard it produced 229bhp - spot on but less than some. Mine has only done 5K round town so that may be a reason. Nonetheless it was producing exactly what the maker said
![smile.gif](https://www.s2ki.com/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif)
Post remap it produced 295 bhp
![lol.gif](https://www.s2ki.com/forums/images/smilies/lol.gif)
![lol.gif](https://www.s2ki.com/forums/images/smilies/lol.gif)
Cost
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Originally Posted by Boab01,Nov 20 2008, 05:27 PM
Great, did you get a bluefin so you could swap too and from the map? What happens if your car gets a software update?
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If the dealer updates my ECU it will wipe the Superchips map. If that happens I plug the Bluefin device in to my car and it downloads the new revised VW map from my car. I then plug the Bluefin into my laptop and it transmits the map to SC who update my map to run OK. They then email me to say it's ready. I plug the Bluefin device in to my laptop and it downloads the revised map onto the Bluefin. Bluefin gets plugged into car, revised map gets reloaded and fun resumes
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It all sounds good to me. Result.
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Originally Posted by gaddafi,Nov 20 2008, 10:11 AM
so what was the point?
was the 'old' car not enough fun
not fast enough
or something else?
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was the 'old' car not enough fun
not fast enough
or something else?
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Great result john, I'll be looking into that with the S3 when I have time
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Originally Posted by Boab01,Nov 20 2008, 07:14 PM
Seems perfectly reasonable to set your car up to the local fuel/altitude/temperature to get the best performance and economy out of it. The Golf is a great car but if you can get more power then why not? I'll be doing the same to the S3 when I feel the need.
Great result john, I'll be looking into that with the S3 when I have time![biggrin.gif](https://www.s2ki.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
Great result john, I'll be looking into that with the S3 when I have time
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Why not?
If you can easily and safely extract more power why not do it?
I do realise that 299bhp is 30bhp more than the S3's 'official' output, but most S3's have been pushing out 280-300 as stock when dyno'd!
More power generally equals more fun and if it is not at the detriment to either the car's reliability or the handling I think it makes sense.
The only reason the manufacturer doesn't, is because it would take sales from other car e.g. the S3 and R32.
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Originally Posted by Boab01,Nov 20 2008, 06:14 PM
Seems perfectly reasonable to set your car up to the local fuel/altitude/temperature to get the best performance and economy out of it. The Golf is a great car but if you can get more power then why not? I'll be doing the same to the S3 when I feel the need.
Great result john, I'll be looking into that with the S3 when I have time![biggrin.gif](https://www.s2ki.com/forums/images/smilies/biggrin.gif)
Great result john, I'll be looking into that with the S3 when I have time
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I'm not criticising the decision
but you don't just spend