remapping help

[Japman]

need some help please

mate has fitted 708s into his gti,hes about to get it mapped and they have told him he needs to buy a superchip in order to map his car

is this correct

cheers

[Colin]

They should place a chip in it to raise the limiter and then they map that chip.

They should supply everything!

[Japman]

they want 500 to do it this is what the guy said


"youve gotta buy a superchip which is 300 plus want,then ive gotta set up the cam timing thats 2 hours laboour


he says the standard ecu cant be remapped

[pjm300]

take it to somewhere that can remap the standard ecu.

[Japman]

anyone else

[AlexB]

chipwizards did mine
mapped the standard ecu

no chip required
limiter raised to 7800 ect

470 quid all in

[Japman]

bttttt

[Pat_Vts]

how much do chipwizards charge to fit it?

[leeroybrown]

Gav honestly do you mates have a clue???

First of all the put the cams in the wrong way

Then they think a superchip will do it my god

Like I said yesterday can beat Wayne at all

If it was me i wouldn't go anywhere else

[CampDavid]

Gav honestly do you mates have a clue???

First of all the put the cams in the wrong way

Then they think a superchip will do it my god

Like I said yesterday can beat Wayne at all

If it was me i wouldn't go anywhere else

Agreed. I've yet to see another mapped car run as smoothly as one mapped by him. Getting it through the MOT after he mapped it was a doddle to

[pjm300]

there's 2 ways of doing it.

either chipwizards for remap of standard ecu, or getting a standalone and doing it that way.

[Steve]

need some help please

mate has fitted 708s into his gti,hes about to get it mapped and they have told him he needs to buy a superchip in order to map his car

is this correct

cheers

no..........
load of shit, take it to wayne at chipwizards tbh.

[Predator_R32]

tell him to go to chipwizards gav :y:

its where ill be taking mine :)

[VtsTom]

I was told you cant actualy play with a standard ecu, you need to use some form of e-prom chip and then modify that to suit. Is that what Wayne does?

[Predator_R32]

maps standard ecu as far as i know mate

[CampDavid]

No, he replaces the ROM chip with something mappable. The ROM chip is about £20. The rest of the price is his time for doing it properly, rollers etc. Which is good value

[AlexR]

As Dave says, you have to replace the standard chip.
The way they do it is to take the standard chip out and solder a socket in it's place then fit a mappable chip and keep changing the map on this till it's spot on.
There are actually a good few places that can map std ecu's.

To be completely honest, i would go as far as not recommending chipwizards now, seen a few cars mapped by him that he'd obviously not bothered perfecting, with rough idles, misfires etc, and a good few(10+) people who have had ecu's mapped that have failed at a later date. Know of nobody who has had problems with the std ecu, only mapped ones.

In the grand scale of life what's £400 extra to go standalone and have much better scope for future mods, as well as the resale value as you can plonk your std ecu back in and sell the standalone.

Standalone all the way.

[Ryan]

espec if emerald standalone as iirc dave walker maps them alot cheaper once purchased :P

[CampDavid]

espec if emerald standalone as iirc dave walker maps them alot cheaper once purchased :P

I spoke to Dave about a year back, £1000 all in would cover it. Probably worth the extra.

Alex - ECU failures are common on the 3 plug, I know of a fair few that have failed, Matt Westy for example, and his hadn't been mapped. Not sure.

I won't be running cams and a remap again though, I would be on standalone

[AlexR]

No P&P though, only downside. get an old buggered ecu, take the socket out of it, get some stripboard and get soldering. or blag an ecu socket with wiring off qep lol

think it works out about £900 mapped for emerald nowadays!

£580.00+vat for ecu, mapping £275+vat.

Means tweeking in future is bargainous though!

Edit: Dave, think about that guy from chesterfield, had the mint mk1 posi blue vts. single plug ecu remapped, packed up totally within months of remap, sent back to wayne, 6 months without his ecu, dave kept making excuses, as far as i know dave still has his ecu over a year later, he has no refund etc.

[Ryan]

dave if you went further on the spec though, im sure a further remap is alot less than if he was mapping an omex/kms for example.