1.5 TSI EVO Remap

On 27/02/2020 at 11:36, Guest BigJase88 said:

I have recently taken delivery of one of these

 

https://www.racechip.co.uk/shop/seat/leon-5f-from-2012/1-5-tsi-1495ccm-130hp-96kw-200nm.html

 

I went with the cheapest option of the Racechip S at £119

 

Item is well made and the wiring harness is nice, OEM VAG connectors are used. Installation isn't too bad, one plug is a bit of a pain to get to(turbo boost pressure). The chip harness connects to 3 plugs, MAP sensor, turbo boost pressure and camshaft position sensor.

 

I haven't had much time to try it out but my initial findings are as such

 

If someone had fitted it without you knowing i think you would be hard pushed to notice or tell the difference, low down torque is no different (not that i could feel anyways) the car behaves much the same up until around 4k rpm, feels quite flat and sluggish, at 4k rpm then you do notice a difference until the redline, seems to have more go 3,4,5,6th up at the top end. Bottom end grunt you would be hard to tell the difference. Down low it’s not as noticeable but i notice that about the 1.5 tsi, you need to have to engine spinning high up the rpm to make progress, it doesn’t have much low end grunt out of the box.

i did some basic timings

20mph to 80mph starting in 2nd and upshifting to 3rd

STOCK 15.08s and 15.35s
CHIP 11.16s and 11.83s


30-90 mph rolling in 3rd gear

STOCK 14.3s and 14.25s
CHIP 13.18s and 13.01s

now this is by no mean scientific, i did try 0-60mph but the difference is negligible and most of the time difference is on take-off.

If it was anymore than £119 i would be disappointed i think. It’s a mild increase and one that will most of the time go un-noticed. It certainly doesn’t bring a wow factor to the experience of driving a 1.5 tsi, i know the 20-80mph time difference looks good but you don’t feel that wow if you get me. Strange, maybe because i am used to having fast cars, i expected some sort of surge.

guess maybe expecting too much

i do intend to stick it on a set of rollers and you can unclip the racechip and they supply a bypass so you can return to stock tune without unplugging which will be handy.

 

 

I intend to have a tinker around with the settings on the box as I stuck it on max setting (5) will turn it back to 1 like you are meant to do and turn up in stages to find the sweet spot and will report back

How did you manage to get to that turbo boost connector? As to me it seems impossible without tearing the whole engine apart.