Hi, Ive just bought a fabia vrs mark 1 (2005). Ive booked it in for a remap, im just wandering does anyone have any advice on how the clutch will cope? I wont be driving like a maniac, and the person carrying out the remap says if we get it at 160bhp ish and 280lbs of torque i will have no problems whatsoever, can anyone give advice as to what theyve had done and any complications they have had, cheers.

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cheers, have u your vrs mapped?! If so what she running at and have you had any complications?! Cheers.

280lb/ft torque is quite conservative for a Stage I remap - 300lb/ft is more common, but actually the thing that will determine iof your clutch lives or dies is when that torque is developed and how you drive the car. The earlier the torque peaks, the more you can stress the clutch if you drive the car badly. What really kills clutches is hard accelleration from fairly low revs - anything under 2000rpm with full throttle will shorten the life of your clutch.

If you can stay off the throttle a bit until 2500rpm the clutch won't suffer at all as far as I'm aware.

160bhp also isn't that high an output for a remapped vRS - many BLT cars (and I appreciate yours is probably an ASZ) make 145-150 bhp as standard and 170-180bhp remapped.

I was going to say the same - ask for more bhp if possible!

you can pick whatever torque you like if you get a custom map!!

my torque on my last dyno day was real low

276lb-ft

but this was at 3,500 rpm :8 which is the cool bit, i dont have the low torque i have high revving and bhp :8

276lb-ft at 3,500 and over 200bhp at 4k rpm :8

okay cheers lads, aye it is a custom map, what would you say would be a reasonable bhp and torque to go to without replacing any parts e.g. clutch, flywheel etc, i would like to keep all of this standard if possible. I was thinking that 160bhp is a bit tame when the car might be putting out over 130 as standard. I appreciate all the advice cheers.

cheers, have u your vrs mapped?! If so what she running at and have you had any complications?! Cheers.

Yes, I have an AmD generic one-click re-map.

I'm running 175bhp and 290lb/ft.

I've had my remap on for about 110k miles and no problems. Still on standard original clutch and turbo

cheers for info everyone, has eased my mind about this remap i have coming up!

Got her sorted, 170bhp with 290lbs/ft, it feels great, and maybe could have gone higher but hopefully keep its original parts!

ive got 435ft/lbs and my clutch is fine..

Edited 8 July, 201015 yr by warwick hunt

ive got 435ft/lbs and my clutch is fine..

You dont have the standard clutch though... so bit of a pointless comment

You dont have the standard clutch though... so bit of a pointless comment

dont think a std setup would have lasted very long at all with all that torque

dont think a std setup would have lasted very long at all with all that torque

Yes ofc lol but I'm just saying that Warwick's comment could be a bit misleading as the OP says "170bhp with 290lbs/ft, it feels great, and maybe could have gone higher but hopefully keep its original parts!"

Edited 9 July, 201015 yr by Thirdtimeluck