they are talking about the mk4 engines me thinks
*SLAP* No. ABF is 2.0 16V motor from Golf3
It comes standard 150 bhp but with a simple chip it will gain 30bhp. when looking at mk3's lots were advertised with 180bhp and when I enquired it was because it they had been chipped.
Barryboy Horse Power maybe.
The engine has potential, but you're not going to let that out with a chip. You *might* see a genuine 160bhp frigging about with the mapping, but you need to get the gases away from it to start getting some proper benefit. Danny's ABF dynoed at around 170bhp with a four-branch manifold on the back of it.
180bhp would need a cam, 4-branch manifold and a custom map.
200bhp will need head work, ITBs and ARP bolts on the bottom end to keep it together, as well as a different crank sensor as the one in the engine can disintegrate once you start lifting the rev-limiter.
Anyone quoting 180bhp from a chip is speaking sh*t.
