£360 for +8Bhp. - Saxperience

JonCarter · 21st December 2009, 19:15

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 · 21st December 2009, 19:17

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Originally Posted by 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 !

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

JonCarter · 21st December 2009, 19:18

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Originally Posted by Bickerton

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 · 21st December 2009, 19:18

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 · 21st December 2009, 19:19

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Originally Posted by JonCarter

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 · 21st December 2009, 19:22

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Originally Posted by Bickerton

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 · 21st December 2009, 19:22

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 · 21st December 2009, 19:23

you need to do it all mappings the last step really

LeeM · 21st December 2009, 19:26

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Originally Posted by JonCarter

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 · 21st December 2009, 19:29

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 · 21st December 2009, 19:30

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Originally Posted by JonCarter

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 · 21st December 2009, 20:59

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Originally Posted by JonCarter

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 · 21st December 2009, 21:04

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^p · 21st December 2009, 21:06

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Originally Posted by JonCarter

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 · 21st December 2009, 21:18

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 · 21st December 2009, 21:19

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^p · 21st December 2009, 21:26

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

andy

Bickerton · 21st December 2009, 21:29

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

andy

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

ryanmt · 21st December 2009, 23:05

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

luthor1 · 21st December 2009, 23:13

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