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[Joemarsh92]

Hi guys, basically I have a friend of a friend that is starting up a mobile business in remapping cars, I was not interested at all in modifying my vxt but with getting asked to share his page I had to ask..... For £150 he says I will get an extra 40bhp and 100nm obviously for that gain and for that amount of money is very tempting! I just wondered if anyone else has had that kind of gain from just a remap? As I've looked at Courtenay's and that's £540 for 25bhp and no mention of torque, does it sound a bit to good to be true or is it actually possible? Cheers guys! ^_^  uploadfromtaptalk1453044863335.jpeg   104.38KB   25 downloads

[fiveoclock]

What could possibly go wrong!!

[tibby]

Some tuningstages from Regelin Germany. Klick on the stage and you can see what is needed to achief the power. (to have a idea) http://www.regelin-p...o/tuningstufen/

[Joemarsh92]

I don't know haha. Would think not a lot as you could put a standard map back on it anyway but just wondered with the price difference and the difference in gain could mean they cut corners, or not so good maps, or damaging to the car, or just the fact that it's a big company that can charge more? Just don't want to ruin the car haha. Like I said the car is enough for me but for £150 could have my arm twisted

[mbes2]

Even cheaper option.... 

 

£15

 

http://www.ebay.co.u...tEAAOSwDNdV2QG5

 

Be brave 

[Joemarsh92]

Or best offer.... stage 1-4 for a fiver haha

[Bennyy]

Think the main difference is your mates map is a generic map and Courtney's will be more a custom map. A lot of mappers tell pork pies about gains and rolling road print outs aren't worth the paper there wrote on.

[Joemarsh92]

Ahh ok that makes a bit more sense, so do courtneys set your car up rather than just uploading a program? Guessing that's why the extra dollar to get them to do it.

[Bennyy]

Yeah that's it mate much more labour intensive, whereas the generic map take a few minutes.

[Joemarsh92]

Aha nice one cheers mate, guessing the generic one will still make a difference though, Long as it doesn't have any negative impacts on the car then happy days!

[Bennyy]

The generic map should still see good gains, most remaps are generic.

[Joemarsh92]

Nice have to give it a whirl I think haha thanks!

[siztenboots]

spend the money on a turbo downpipe replacement section of exhaust to remove the precat , and get yourself an mpps cable and I will email you the stage 2 map since Boston is too far for me to travel and do a custom job, its pretty easy to upload new maps yourself.

 

[Bennyy]

spend the money on a turbo downpipe replacement section of exhaust to remove the precat , and get yourself an mpps cable and I will email you the stage 2 map since Boston is too far for me to travel and do a custom job, its pretty easy to upload new maps yourself.  

Now that's a great offer.

[Joemarsh92]

Can I do that straight off my laptop then? Sorry I've never looked into it before I'll have a quick Google see what's what haha

[Joemarsh92]

So with these couple of bits and that will do the job? cant believe its quite that easy! haha

 

http://www.ebay.co.u...XwAAOSwcwhVK4TW

http://www.ebay.co.u...esAAOSwv0tVcZEp

[hairy]

fitting the downpipe is not quite "easy". I haven't tried the software upload yet.

[Nev]

fitting the downpipe is not quite "easy". I haven't tried the software upload yet.

 

LOL, has that cos your tummy wouldn't slide under the car ?!

 

JK.

[Nev]

@ the OP, don't do it.

 

If you expect that much BHP from a remap on this engine, it can only come from excessive boost and excessive timing advance, both of which can/will hurt/break your engine if their numbers are to be believed (which is highly unlikely if they offer a genuine waranttee).

 

Edited by Nev, 17 January 2016 - 09:43 PM.

[mbes2]

@ the OP, don't do it.

 

If you expect that much BHP from a remap on this engine, it can only come from excessive boost and excessive timing advance, both of which can/will hurt/break your engine if their numbers are to be believed (which is highly unlikely if they offer a genuine waranttee).

 

 

I found this out the hard long way with the wrong / poor map 

 

Now I have some great souvenirs