I bought my car from a tuning company but it was advertised as standard. It keeps up with my mates healthy w reg remapped audi s3. So I'm guessing that's 260 ish. Obviously I doubt mines standard.....is it just simple remap in peoples opinion. Doubt it's that much lighter than s3 to enable it to be as quick should it be standard.

I get 32 mpg with mixed driving. I'm curious and will probably end up getting it rr but until then it will be interesting to hear peoples views.

I think early S3's are 210 and later 225. Current one is 260. As its a W perhapsits lost a few ponies!

Get yours RR see what its putting out.

Well, they say 1bhp per year, so a W reg would be down to 200, which is still more than a standard Octy vRS, but less than you might expect from a mapped one - maybe it's all down to technique? :P

I really cannot see a modern engine losing like 1bhp a year, if serviced properly then it shouldn't really loose anything! The Audi weighs slightly more than the vRS and not knowing what the vRS may have done then its impossible to say.

Case in point is my friend had a Megane Sport 225bhp (Standard) vs a Cupra R 225 (with stage 1 Revo). Not much in it really, but who knows so many variables.

Edit: According to Parkers the weight of the S3 is lower (http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/specs/Detail.aspx?deriv=22168). Is that right? I thought it would be more with 4wd and the BAM engine, much like the Cupra R is?

Edited 2 September, 200916 yr by Jon_VRS

Well, they say 1bhp per year, so a W reg would be down to 200, which is still more than a standard Octy vRS, but less than you might expect from a mapped one - maybe it's all down to technique? :P

I aint the best at putting words in to text but I will give it a try.

The modern Bosch Me7.5 ecu as used for DBW 1.8T engines will near on always produce bang on the quoted power from the factory. Even if the car is 10 years old and its in half decent running order then there is no reason to lose any power and if there is a minor boost leak the car will compensate and still fill the cylinders with the correct amount of air and fuel make the requested power.

Modern ecu are what we call load based which are developed around a software torque model of the engine which is based on advance math lots of numbers. The Me7.5 will take in to account the climate conditions, engine conditions ect work the best way to produce the requested power. Another way to look at it is if you took a stock 1.8T dbw car to the North Pole and did a dyno run in the cold conditions and then went to Egypt in mis summer and carried our a dyno run, both power runs should be a very close match, if not bang on the same results.

Older ecus with boost maps / ms amal valve duty cycle requests and ignition maps with out offset tables, can and will lose power over the years. And the back to back tests in the North Pole and Egypt would return results a mile off from each other, with the north pole power running giving a higher reading.

Its worth a read up if you can find the information on google.

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6553958.html

http://forums.fourtitude.com/zerothread?cmd=print&id=3879937

http://www.wothrline.com/editerbara_sidor/bosch_mme7_me9.htm

Nick

Edited 2 September, 200916 yr by Bigbhp18t