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General => The garage => Topic started by: gtdguy on 13 October 2011, 15:00
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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
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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:
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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
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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:
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Where in London?
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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:
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Thank you very much RTechUK
and AlanD i live in sunbury do you know?
Thanks Physo for the graph
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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 . .
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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.
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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)
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Can't recommend Carbon Chip tuning enough!
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Chip Carbon Tuning or Carbon Chip Tuning? :D
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