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Offline madmanmart

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Re: Is my car chipped?
« Reply #10 on: 21 July 2011, 18:54 »
Quote from: dragongreengolfgti on 21 July 2011, 18:31
Cheers madman how can i identify if its a standard chip or not does it have a number or vw wrote on it cheers mate

I have my standard chip infront of me so take a pic and I will tell you if its standard.

Just disconnect the battery and you will have no problems.

Mine gained 8bhp from the remap and I have before and after dynos to prove if need be.
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Re: Is my car chipped?
« Reply #11 on: 21 July 2011, 18:57 »
Quote from: madmanmart on 21 July 2011, 18:54
Quote from: dragongreengolfgti on 21 July 2011, 18:31
Cheers madman how can i identify if its a standard chip or not does it have a number or vw wrote on it cheers mate

I have my standard chip infront of me so take a pic and I will tell you if its standard.

Just disconnect the battery and you will have no problems.

Mine gained 8bhp from the remap and I have before and after dynos to prove if need be.

Cheers mate i will probs get on this saturday now and see i'l PM you once i have taken a picture  :smiley:
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Re: Is my car chipped?
« Reply #12 on: 21 July 2011, 20:48 »
A run on a rolling road will tell you a lot.
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Re: Is my car chipped?
« Reply #13 on: 21 July 2011, 21:47 »
Quote from: Wayne on 21 July 2011, 20:48
A run on a rolling road will tell you a lot.

Yup you should come upto carbon chiptuning for the forum rr day in October, that will tell you for sure!  :smiley:
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Re: Is my car chipped?
« Reply #14 on: 21 July 2011, 21:52 »
Quote from: dom069 on 21 July 2011, 21:47
Quote from: Wayne on 21 July 2011, 20:48
A run on a rolling road will tell you a lot.

Yup you should come upto carbon chiptuning for the forum rr day in October, that will tell you for sure!  :smiley:

Im up for it so long as the cars still running then  :laugh: should have it sorted by then also  :smiley:
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Re: Is my car chipped?
« Reply #15 on: 21 July 2011, 21:58 »
Don't worry if it's not sorted...my passat wont be!

I'm going so I can plan a remap (and see how many ponies have bolted!!)
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Re: Is my car chipped?
« Reply #16 on: 22 July 2011, 09:14 »
Quote from: madmanmart on 21 July 2011, 18:54
Quote from: dragongreengolfgti on 21 July 2011, 18:31
Cheers madman how can i identify if its a standard chip or not does it have a number or vw wrote on it cheers mate

I have my standard chip infront of me so take a pic and I will tell you if its standard.

Just disconnect the battery and you will have no problems.

Mine gained 8bhp from the remap and I have before and after dynos to prove if need be.


Lucky You!

Mine gained 2bhp max!
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Re: Is my car chipped?
« Reply #17 on: 22 July 2011, 09:47 »
Quote from: thai-wronghorse on 21 July 2011, 18:39
If the battery is disconnected and left for at least 15mins or so you'll be fine to unbolt the ecu from the scuttle tray.

I have done many back-to-back ECU comparisons between a stock ECU, Chipped ECU and plug & play Megasquirt ECU...and never once disconnected the battery when swapping between ECUs.
The Standard ECU is fine to be removed without disconnecting the battery.
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Re: Is my car chipped?
« Reply #18 on: 22 July 2011, 12:01 »
Mine is chipped, but with airbox mods, cold air feeds, stainless exhaust, pipercross filter and made 172hp on Stealths rolling road (known to be optimistic) and 162hp on the Garage Streamline rolling road (known to be fairly accurate)  Both dynos gave a reading of 144lbs-ft of torque, so I would expect the real reading to be somewhere around mid 160s.
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Offline dragongreengolfgti

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Re: Is my car chipped?
« Reply #19 on: 22 July 2011, 15:02 »
not bad figures there really  :smiley: Whats the trick to get the torque almost the same as the bhp? and also out of curiosity whos got the fastest/most bhp 16v'er on the forum N/A powered? cheers
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