Would you remap a FWD turbo ?
11-20-2008, 03:58 AM
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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
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
11-20-2008, 08:27 AM
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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
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
11-20-2008, 08:47 AM
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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?
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
11-20-2008, 09:04 AM
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It all sounds good to me. Result.
11-20-2008, 09:14 AM
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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?
was the 'old' car not enough fun
not fast enough
or something else?
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
Great result john, I'll be looking into that with the S3 when I have time
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.
11-20-2008, 09:36 AM
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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
Great result john, I'll be looking into that with the S3 when I have time
I'm not criticising the decision
but you don't just spend