£360 for +8Bhp.

[JonCarter]

i work around the corner of superchips, anyway was on my dinner break so i thought id pop in. ask how much a chip would be for a 1.4 saxo furio, mk2 he said £360, so i was like "a big increse in power for that cash then mate?" he just said "nope, you cant do much with saxos a chip will only add 8bhp", imo i think he was on crystal meth !

[Bickerton]

i work around the corner of superchips, anyway was on my dinner break so i thought id pop in. ask how much a chip would be for a 1.4 saxo furio, mk2 he said £360, so i was like "a big increse in power for that cash then mate?" he just said "nope, you cant do much with saxos a chip will only add 8bhp", imo i think he was on crystal meth !

So about a 10% increase? i think that's pretty good

[JonCarter]

So about a 10% increase? i think that's pretty good

i can achive more with a set of iridium spark plugs, fresh air filter and better oil lol, and would only cost a fraction over £50

[Mr_P]

I'll think you'll find he was talking sense. There's not a lot you can do with the standard map on a saxo. Hence why nobody does it.

[Bickerton]

i can achive more with a set of iridium spark plugs, fresh air filter and better oil lol, and would only cost a fraction over £50

And then what would you do for power?

[JonCarter]

And then what would you do for power?

Fair play mate, im toying with it, just the fact of the money, does anyone on here do it for cheaper?

[gouldy87]

im ashamed to admit it but i enquired at superchips for my vts mapping when i had it cammed as i went trolling round a few places. they only wanted £250 for a generic map putting on.

dont waste your time with things like this imo

[samueljonburgess]

you need to do it all mappings the last step really

[LeeM]

i can achive more with a set of iridium spark plugs, fresh air filter and better oil lol, and would only cost a fraction over £50

lol would seem youre the one on meth. power costs money mate.

[Bickerton]

For the price of one of these you could get a remap to fall inline with you breathing mods on your current ecu and probably gain more than 8bhp (not 100% on this tho)

[Saaamon]

i can achive more with a set of iridium spark plugs, fresh air filter and better oil lol, and would only cost a fraction over £50

Only if your car is below factory power to start with ;)

[Finchowned]

i can achive more with a set of iridium spark plugs, fresh air filter and better oil lol, and would only cost a fraction over £50

Haha, big, hairy, bollocks. Sounds like you need to lay off the Meths mate!

[Scott_172]

That seems like good gains to me, but like said youd be best of getting an exhaust, filter decat cams etc then getting it mapped to utilise it as much as possible.

[AndySAXO]

i can achive more with a set of iridium spark plugs, fresh air filter and better oil lol, and would only cost a fraction over £50

sorry if you believe this will add 10 bhp your sadly mistaken!!!!!

andy

[blackie_2k5]

power is money as said, remap/chip will only about 8bhp....even with more mods including cams you wont get massive increase in power but will be alot better to drive and the power will be more useable. only diesels and turbos will see decent gains from just a remap

[Bickerton]

Also it depends what the engine was like in the 1st place as at the last RR i went too there were alot of weird results from peoples cars with differing mods

[AndySAXO]

one being yours, cant believe yours was just breather mods, the engine seem to be running spot one :y:

andy

[Bickerton]

one being yours, cant believe yours was just breather mods, the engine seem to be running spot one :y:

andy

Yeah was pretty happy with the results, got a 421 mani and a green filter now too ;)

[ryanmt]

spark plugs, no matter how good will not add an extra power!

[luthor1]

you can turbo it.

Get a GT1548, a decent ECU, injectors, intercooler, and bits and bobs and you'll get 140bhp or so out of it.

Andy

[sir_dave]

Iirc, if you fold your seats down your car goes faster as well, something about lowering the centre of gravity, etc ....

[Waitey]

I just lol'd hard.

I'd say getting 8bhp peak would be fairly hard. More like 5bhp.

Most of what they say is bollocks though.

Still lol'ing at the i'll get more than that from servicing it. I just serviced the TVR, got another 45bhp...

[KamRacing]

with a standard normally aspirated engine of lowish bhp to start I'd say 1-2% max