Hi Everyone,

I am considering a remap of my Octy 1.9 tdi pd estate using Shark performance stage 1 map using the STS unit.

Looking around the forum Shark performance seems a good choice and he seems to know his stuff. I was wondering if anyone has any experience of this remap on this particular engine? Most remaps seem to be done on this forum on the higher output engines.

How different does the car feel and what economy gains are there?

A workmate had his 2008 Fabia mk2 1.9 done which is the same ouput I think, it wasn't Shark but it was a vast improvement, smoother and pulled very hard and for longer, also made it tick over less lumpy.

Thanks for your reply.

It sounds like its is a good improvement to the car

I suppose I have not had that many replies as most people with a 105ps 1.9 do not bother remapping as they are not that concerned about power/torque.

If you're looking at having a remap from us, you may be interested in our free STS group buy - see http://briskoda.net/forums/topic/169361-shark-performance-sts-group-buy-get-your-free-sts-here/ for details

If you can at all try to get the car on a rolling road before and afterwards. It should make it easier to declare it to your insurance company as well as show up anything unexpected in the power delivery.

I waited until after the timing belt service before getting a remap to make sure the engine wasn't showing any other problems. The timing belt drives the fuel injectors directly on the PD engine, so a remap which injects more fuel (Which is the main way to generate more power) will work the timing belt harder. Also while power figures past 150 bhp are possible with the engine, reliability tends to suffer the harder you push it (That said the guy who tuned my car drives a PD 105 VW Caddy DSG with 170 bhp without any physical changes to the engine).

That said the guy who tuned my car drives a PD 105 VW Caddy DSG with 170 bhp without any physical changes to the engine

That sounds a bit too good to be true - it must be one hell of a map to gain nearly a 62% power increase

Be interesting to hear Ben's view as to whether that is indeed possible :yes:

If it is I'll get SWMBO's Fabia Sport done

I'd expect a reliable 135-140bhp out of the PD105, on a safe and reliable remap - like one from Shark

You've thought about it, then asked the question. Now get it done

Cheers,

Steve

The guy who did my map (Joe at chipped Ireland) does a lot of race tuning and does customised maps rather than using the same map each time on a given engine. He took the edge off the 2000 rpm torque spike the PD engines provide to cut the chance of the tyres breaking traction if I feed the power on too quickly on wet roads, partially by limiting the peak torque but mostly by increasing the low end torque so the peak isn't as sharp. The engine revs out smoothly right to the red line rather than pretty much running out of steam at 3000 rpm. The result is a much more driveable car which can be left in 4th through even the tightest back roads when I'm feeling lazy.

He's also pretty confident his rolling road is calibrated correctly, which was the first thing I thought of when my car gave 115-120 bhp before remapping... VAG engines tend to give better than the stated power output anyway (Possibly VAG prefer it when the worst engine in a batch still makes quoted power output - if the average figure was the claimed power then every second car would have less power than advertised) though mine was better than expected.

1.9 PD 105 at 170! I have heard the turbo on the 1.9 is smaller than the 2.0 so that might be under pressure a bit?

Hi Ben,

I will be calling to order my unit and joining freedom at the 10% discount is a no brainer on this deal.

I was wondering if you can clear codes and reset variable servicing with the unit?

Keep up the good work.

Edited 3 August, 201015 yr by leadlag

The STS can read and clear fault codes but it cannot reset the service interval for you I'm afraid.

I'll look forward to speaking to you on the phone

Cheers