We've had it for a week and most of that time has been spent tinkering, sealing the doors, cleaning egr/asv, wife proofing the interior, hunting the failure in a heated seat. I'm pretty much certain that it's been mapped as I had a proper drive yesterday and it was pulling all the way up to the red line. It will be interesting to see what has been done and what power it's chucking out.

I'm going for 158/260

wife says 168/282

I say it hasn't been mapped

172/286

I thought mine was mapped when i bought it, as most people seem to think on here.

For me though it was just the power difference from a 1.2 to a 1.9 with a turbo, the power felt unreal. Now im used to it after a few weeks its boring again and i need more power!!

Not mapped

The guy at the RR place put up other maps of standard vrs and ours is pretty much identical. How rapid must these things be if they are mapped then!

The guy at the RR place put up other maps of standard vrs and ours is pretty much identical. How rapid must these things be if they are mapped then!

Very rapid, my mapped Fabia vRS kept within a car's length of an Astra VXR on the 1/4mile at Santa Pod, his was pushing 240bhp ish I seem to recall and he only started to pull on me towards the last 1/8 of the mile.

But still 150bhp at the engine! Makes the £200 you pay for 15-30 more horses seem less of a bargain if they make that as standard, rather than 130?

^ pretty much what I'm thinking, seems plenty quick enough standard so not sure a remap is even worth it.

What year is yours? Guessing 06 on and a blt engine looking at those figures.

^ pretty much what I'm thinking, seems plenty quick enough standard so not sure a remap is even worth it.

The only thing is you will have it mapped then you will want here more power once you got use to the mapped power. All a sudden you will be 2k+ chasing here more power

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56 plate, knew they made more than 130 but surprised 150 is the norm

Yer most the blt engines are around there from what i have seen.

Best part about it all is your guess was better than the wifes

Trouble is she'll now want to get it mapped :peek:

Did someone say Astra VXR? This one was 300bhp, and yes he got a poor launch. Only just caught me at the end of the quarter though

Good video

Simon

What's done to ur car what figures u running??

Mapped vrs keeping up with or in code proximity of an astra vxr.. I don't think so unless the vxr was a sleep.

Edited 10 November, 201213 yr by ajs_vrs

Mapped vrs keeping up with or in code proximity of an astra vxr.. I don't think so unless the vxr was a sleep.

First run time was against the VXR

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^ pretty much what I'm thinking, seems plenty quick enough standard so not sure a remap is even worth it.

Mines a BLT and it made 114 HP at the wheels with an estimated 139 at the fly wheel. Different dyno's will give different figures plus the power at the flywheel is estimated, BUT I have a digital tuning box fitted which I can turn on/off via a switch on the dash, with the tuning box on it made 137 at the wheels and the difference really puts a smile on my face when I switch it on. I only paid £90 for the box second hand, and at £90 for an extra 23 HP and 42 ftlb at the wheels you can't go wrong. See if a member will take you out for a spin in a remapped car and I guarantee you'll get your wallet out !!

Karl

LOL love it!!

But still 150bhp at the engine! Makes the £200 you pay for 15-30 more horses seem less of a bargain if they make that as standard, rather than 130?

^ pretty much what I'm thinking, seems plenty quick enough standard so not sure a remap is even worth it.

The biggest part of the map is the smoothing and availability of power across the rev range, not just peak power for pub talk.

Mine made 128hp as standard, 56 plate too

The biggest part of the map is the smoothing and availability of power across the rev range, not just peak power for pub talk.

As Matt mentioned above the main thing about a remap is it smooths out the spike of torque the PD engine gives. Looking closer at your map your max torque comes in with a bang at 2100 rpm which does seem high for a standard engine. The few that I have seen normally have max torque at 1700 - 1800 rpm as standard.

Mine for comparison

The blue line is standard and the red is with the chip switched on. As you can see the digital tuning box does not really change the shape of the power curve only increasing it, where as a remap curve would sooth out the torque spike and makes the car pull smoothly rather than lots of wheel spin when in the wet.

So if you do get your wallet out, a remap is the one to go for

Karl

Mine was 150 standard (BLT) generic map took it to 167

Pals was 129 map took it to 166 .......gutted !