Chipping 8v digifants ?

[GavG60]

mr hawkins your brain scares me.....

my g60 supposed to be chipped, is there anything I can look at under the bonnet to tell me what kind of chip?

G

[jv]

one of these:

[davidhawkins_78]

hello matey - afraid not - unless you fancy taking your ECU apart there's no way to tell. Even then unless the chip has some obvious markings you probably couldn't tell.

I'm not too hot on G60's but along with the chip you normally have the pulley on the charger changed to increase boost levels - any obvious signs that there's fancy coloured pulley on your charger??

Any other G60 owners able to offer any other suggestions ?? Hope that helps matey ...  

[jv]

as the man says, the size of the pulley is usually changed at the same time as a chip swap. by reducing the size of the pulley you spin the charger more, creating greater pressure = more power. the downside is greater wear on the charger. A 71mm pulley is a sensible reduction, 68mm is usually the norm in going for big power gains. 65 or even 63mm are available if you are a) mad or b) like rebuilding the charger often

[GavG60]

hhhmmm... there's a carbon fibre cover over the pulley that I haven't taken off yet, will have a look under it and see. is a carbon fibre cover a standard item?

how do the measurements work on the pulley is it full diameter?

cheers fellas

Gav

[davidhawkins_78]

Carbon Fibre is definately not standard VW! Get that digi cam out and get us some more pictures of under the bonnet - preferable not with you slabbering all over the charger too

As for the dimensions it'll either be diameter or radius - I'd say radius as 60 odd millimeters with 2 or 3 mm increase seems too small.

[GavG60]

cool!

will get digi out at the weekend and post some pics on sat afternoon.

can't wait to get it down for the charger rebuild on tuesday!!!! it's f**kin quick now, but gonna be rebuilt to nearly stage five.....

[davidhawkins_78]

lol ... listen to you !!!

Are these saftey measures to make sure no more peskey 8valves give you a shock ??

Also, how come you moved from getting a conversion done to buying a compete car? I'm still looking in to a G60 conversion for mine - just planning how to raise the funds!

[GavG60]

lol ... listen to you !!!

Are these saftey measures to make sure no more peskey 8valves give you a shock ??

Also, how come you moved from getting a conversion done to buying a compete car? I'm still looking in to a G60 conversion for mine - just planning how to raise the funds!

Damm right.. no more embarrassing country road moments for me  

I was gooing to get a conversion, but started to think about the final value of the car, I reckon a mint original g60 will be worth more than my 16v with the new block in it, and to be honest, although it cleaned up well, there were a few bits about that car that really niggled me.

[GavG60]

p.s. don't get a g60 dave, I'll have to get a 20v turbo then.....