Problems with remapping?

[spoolking]

Ok so i try to read these forums as often as i can and learn as much as i can, usually its quite late at night and i wouldnt be suprised if i forgot half of it before i got to the bottem of the thread. How ever i do have a mate who knows everything and im sure some of you have a friend like mine. It does wined me up when we argue but it's a nice way of dumping all that testosterone building up in me after working 6 days straight.
 Recently we have been arguing about How a remap would or would not damage your car and  honestly i dont know the Real answer.
He says that if you remap a 2001 1.8t AUM (150bhp) to 200-207bhp* which is what Revo and r-tech give for a rough figure depending on the condition of your engine that eventually the Engine parts will start to fail due to the power increase?

So that is my first question.

2nd

Is it a good idear to get a remap done to a standard AUM? I want to Get a forge 007 and dsg air intake and at least a sports exhaulst system from the cat back but will i still gain from these if the remap is put on there? the answer to this question is yes or so im guessing and also that if the remap was done on a rolling road whilst having such mods fitted then i would see a power increase compared to having the remap done before hand but how much of an increase?

So if anyone has a better explaination than what i just gave with more accurate figures or correct me where im wrong would be much appreciated. 

thx in advace 

[Ben]

R-Tech = well over 2750 cars with 1.8T remaps over the last 5 year, most pushing 200bhp+.  Horror stories = 0 (as far as I know if there is any I would love to know about them)

All of our customers will get educated on who to care for the car with the remap, and the all understand what add on mods are good and bad.  Ie A cone filter is a no no, Blow off type valves no no, Good fuel is a must, good oil is a must. letting the car warm up and cool down. ect.

Bits of the car that fail will fail even if the car is stock, coil packs, mafs, boost pipes vac leaksand clutch ect.

I am happy seeing car go out of the workshop pushing close on 230bhp from a remap.
Get the lambda, running richer top end for cooling not peak power, timing right and boost right then all will be fine. One element wrong and disaster could happen, unknown remaps, rushed remaps and DIY remap give the trade bad name.

And to add Bens own 1.8T AUM has 160k on the clocks its Been remap for around 30k I think and running maops from 200bhp to 241bhp, thrashed to feck, over 300 hours flat out and under full held load on the rolling road to adjust our lambda and load maps ect.. and the car is still 110% perfect ans never had a major issue with the engine or turbo only a clutch.

I am sure Kev at Revo will have a simlar story to tell but with over 10,000 happy customers and I am also sure there own car will be running a bit more power than the average joes car.. .


A good idea is to replace the weak parts prior to the remap, the DV is the first thing to fail, i would bet £10 that you dv is feck and still you will be running close on to 150bhp from your stock map.

You can always add to a spec1 remap to complement the power upto 222bhp..
We can offer RR runs with pre and post power remap result with power at wheel flywheel and tranny losses.

Nick