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Title: Golf Mark 6 GTD remap or tuning box?
Post by: gtdguy on 13 October 2011, 15:00
Hello people,

I hope some of you can help me, I am going to purchase a golf Mrk 6 GTD in January. and am wondering what would be better to do... remap or a tuning box?

if anyone could help me with advise on where to have it done and everything just so I can learn a bit more about what's involved and what the benefits are?

Many thanks Tom
Title: Re: Golf Mark 6 GTD remap or tuning box?
Post by: Rhyso on 13 October 2011, 15:07
Remap  :wink:

Latest GTD ECU's are encrypted so I doubt a tuning box would work  :undecided:

If you are near Manchester then speak to one of our forum sponsors, Carbon Chip Tuning.  Craig (the owner) has a MK6 GTD himself and that goes very well indeed  :wink:
Title: Re: Golf Mark 6 GTD remap or tuning box?
Post by: gtdguy on 13 October 2011, 15:49
Great thanks Rhyso,

how much break should it give me do you have any idea on spec after?

im in London mate there must be a few places down this way i can do it?Thanks

Tom
Title: Re: Golf Mark 6 GTD remap or tuning box?
Post by: RTechUK on 13 October 2011, 16:10
IMHO to get the best all around performance and results results from your car you really need to get your ecu software remapped, I would only use a tuing box if there was not a software option.
  The mk6 is not an ecu we are working on yet so I dont know too much about them, but the guy to speak to is Craig at carbon chip tuning who like Rhyso says owns one and has been fine tuning & developing maps for power and MPG.. :wink:
Title: Re: Golf Mark 6 GTD remap or tuning box?
Post by: AlanD on 13 October 2011, 16:17
Where in London?
Title: Re: Golf Mark 6 GTD remap or tuning box?
Post by: Rhyso on 13 October 2011, 16:25
Here's a graph of Craig's own car

(http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/9410/gtd.gif)

I've personally driven it too and all I can say is, quite simply, its AWESOME  :evil:  and how the car should have left the factory  :cool:

Not too sure of many places in London but if you speak to Craig they do offer a mobile service :afro:
Title: Re: Golf Mark 6 GTD remap or tuning box?
Post by: gtdguy on 13 October 2011, 16:28
Thank you very much RTechUK

and AlanD i live in sunbury do you know?

Thanks Physo for the graph
Title: Re: Golf Mark 6 GTD remap or tuning box?
Post by: AlanD on 13 October 2011, 16:34
Your not a million miles away from me. I use a local VAG place in Croydon (see my sig) where I live. However I didnt use for my remaping services (had R-Tech do that). Tuning Wereks are a Revo dealer but as Rhyso said have a word with Craig as it could be worth using their mobile services. I have no idea what the Revo GTD map is like or even if they do one . .
Title: Re: Golf Mark 6 GTD remap or tuning box?
Post by: RTechUK on 13 October 2011, 16:49
Great thanks Rhyso,

how much break should it give me do you have any idea on spec after?

im in London mate there must be a few places down this way i can do it?Thanks

Tom

Go for a treck up north and get your car on the dyno, it will make for a good day out and a huge grin on the way home, you will find many local places willing to remap your car, on your drive at there workshop ect but 99.95 will use a generic map made up by a desktop tuner just adding extra % to all the maps, yer they do the job but vs a map which has had many hours development on the tuners own car its going to be night and day imo.
Title: Re: Golf Mark 6 GTD remap or tuning box?
Post by: The Doc on 14 October 2011, 20:13
Thanks all for the compliments tuning folks  :smiley:

Yes I have a GTD, I bought it because most of the other VW tuning companies bought a GTso for R&D so I thought I'd be different and carve myself a niche in the GTD remapping sector.

I have a great remap for your car and as stated in the above posts most companies can write you a decent remap but with me living with a 2011MY GTD and fine tuning it to the finest degree I do like to think it's one of the best available.

Here are a few links to cars with your engine we've mapped and comments on them.

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=203496.0

http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=206969.0

Regards the tuning box method, they work but never to the degree that the remap will ;-)

Here's my dyno plot:

(http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/3094/gtddsg.gif)

Title: Re: Golf Mark 6 GTD remap or tuning box?
Post by: Adam on 15 October 2011, 16:32
Can't recommend Carbon Chip tuning enough!
Title: Re: Golf Mark 6 GTD remap or tuning box?
Post by: AlanD on 17 October 2011, 12:48
Chip Carbon Tuning or Carbon Chip Tuning? :D
Title: Re: Golf Mark 6 GTD remap or tuning box?
Post by: Adam on 17 October 2011, 13:01
Chip Carbon Tuning or Carbon Chip Tuning? :D

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