Chip or re-map?

[ramrod]

A standard fuel pressure regulator will keep a constant pressure.
Uprated regulators are pointless without other mods.

care to elaborate?

[Wayne]

A standard fuel pressure regulator will keep a constant pressure.
Uprated regulators are pointless without other mods.

care to elaborate?

A power boost valve looses against the engine sensors eg: lambda,knock sensor etc (the valve adds fuel then the ecu reduces it)....so there basically pointless/useless!

and the ebay chips make the ecu think it needs more fuel and possibly advance the timing but I doubt the engine will like it for long!! Good petrol (98ron+) is possibly a better option?

As above it will gain you nothing, on older cars they did help a little.

[ramrod]

A standard fuel pressure regulator will keep a constant pressure.
Uprated regulators are pointless without other mods.

care to elaborate?

A power boost valve looses against the engine sensors eg: lambda,knock sensor etc (the valve adds fuel then the ecu reduces it)....so there basically pointless/useless!

and the ebay chips make the ecu think it needs more fuel and possibly advance the timing but I doubt the engine will like it for long!! Good petrol (98ron+) is possibly a better option?

As above it will gain you nothing, on older cars they did help a little.

Cheers Wayne

Looks like im just going to have to lose some weight then if i want a quicker throttle response

[AudiA8Quattro]

A standard fuel pressure regulator will keep a constant pressure.
Uprated regulators are pointless without other mods.

care to elaborate?

You don't need uprated fuel pressure unless the engine has been heavily modified.
For example ported head, uprated cams then it might have a small effect top end.
I would think to get real benefit you would need to have a higher revving engine, as the engine may be slightly lean top end.
The best person to ask is Glen (ess_three), our no.1 engineer on here 

[Ess_Three]

The best person to ask is Glen (ess_three), our no.1 engineer on here 

I'm no expert!
I've just been down the road of buying all the crap that is supposed to make a big differnce...only to find it doesn't do anything.
I've spent thousands finding out the hard way.

The bottom line is: There is no cheap fix.
ABFs do not make  170+ BHP by just looking at them.
They were not 'strangled' by VW to only make 150BHP...so don't go looking for an easy 20 BHP.
They do not make 190+ BHP without spending many thousands on good old fashoined engineering solutions to the same problems every other engine has.
...and if you chase 200+ BHP, you'll find much of the so called 'good kit' doesn't fit...so you'll have to engineer it yourself.

[Khare]

So what's your view on power boost valves then?

[ramrod]

So what's your view on power boost valves then?

lol you took the words out of my mouth!!

[Khare]

 

[Ess_Three]

So what's your view on power boost valves then?

Waste of time...just adding fuel everywhere, which gives the closed loop lambda control a headache.
If you need more fuel, add it properly via an ECU calibration.

Out of interest, I tried a 4 bar FPR in my 16v on the dyno one day...it lost power and ran badly (over-fuelling) swapped back to the 3 bar FPR and I got the power back.

[Khare]

So what's your view on power boost valves then?

Waste of time...just adding fuel everywhere, which gives the closed loop lambda control a headache.
If you need more fuel, add it properly via an ECU calibration.

Out of interest, I tried a 4 bar FPR in my 16v on the dyno one day...it lost power and ran badly (over-fuelling) swapped back to the 3 bar FPR and I got the power back.

Glad you said that cos I was thinking of getting hold of a 4 bar FPR. Glad I didn't now then.