just wondered if anyone had considered the brand new unichip.

is a fulyl mappable ecu with some very fancy features that fits with ready supplied loom adapters between the chassis loom and the standard ecu.

Retains all functionality of standard car - eg. service interval and check engine lights.

The thing that tempts me is that it isn't car specific, so you can take it from car to car, you just buy different loom adapters to suit.

I was looking at going to perfect touch in hoddesdon. They have a dastek rolling road there and the guy who does the mapping is responsible for some 1000bhp skylines so I tend to trust him. He also built my 22B for me so I know he knows his stuff.

Apparently he got 220bhp and 330lbft from a Golf gt pd150 using this ecu.

Not sure on price, but I like the idea of a map tailored to your car and verified on the rollers.

Anyone else looked into it?

I had a unichip, may or may not have been responsible for a failure of the turbo, but i was never happy with it, and the figures on another MAHA RR ( same RR ) were very much lower than the chap who fitted the unichip's.

Considered it, but I ruled it out as it seemed a bit of an unknow quantity when I was looking. I ended up with a custom remap but on the standard ECU.

How's the B anyway?

TaviaRS, now that is a familiar name.

Are you a former/current scoobynetter?

Sold the 22B recently to a new enthusiast owner, who has done a great job of restoring it to standard. am very pleased with the home it has gone to.

Did have a brief spell with an evo 6, but was rear ended and that has now been written off.

Now waiting for the money to clear to buy another, although unfortunately the fabia vrs is so much better than I thought that I am not sure it is worth the money!

The unichip I am talking about is brand new. Just come out. I was against the old ones, but I think it could be a great idea. Seems to be decent to me that you can retain most of your outlay and move it between cars.

I am not sure an ecu can be blamed for a turbo failure, I would more likely blame the mapper.

Yep, former Scoobynetter and 22B

Weren't the "old" unichips piggybacks or am I thinking of something else?

Good for the new owner in restoring it to standard, must hurt though, you did spend quite a bit on it.

Didn't hurt that badly.

I didnt sell it with all the mods. i broke it down. Because I got good prices when I bought the mods, I got comparitively great money back when I sold them.

Yes the old uni chips were piggy backs.

The new ones aren't far off being the same but they have much better boost control and a lot of great features. They still alter maf readings etc but are far more cleanly installed now.

Didn't hurt that badly.

I didnt sell it with all the mods. i broke it down. Because I got good prices when I bought the mods' date=' I got comparitively great money back when I sold them.

Yes the old uni chips were piggy backs.

The new ones aren't far off being the same but they have much better boost control and a lot of great features. They still alter maf readings etc but are far more cleanly installed now.[/quote']

Why pay for a piggyback ecu when the standard one can be remapped anyway?

Why pay for a piggyback ecu when the standard one can be remapped anyway?

Kinda what I was thinking.

We had a unichip on our old rally car, caused all sorts of running issues but I guess its only as good as the installer/programmer. Binned it and got a propper remap done, much better.

new unichip isnt a piggyback. it is a complete ecu that works in parallel.

reason to do it is the cost is comparable to reprogramming the standard one, except it can be totally untraceably removed and switched to another car, so you don't lose the value when you switch cars.

it is also more adjustable, and can be live mapped and has controllable parameters.

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Well, I have decided not to persue this due to conscience about the warranty, even though the method I was considering is untraceable. Having driven the car for 1000 miles now, I can cope with the performance as is, but will play once the warranty is up.

There are devices (revo? etc) which alter the ecu map by plugging n a stick and flicking a switch. Apparently when removed the ecu is as standard as when it left the factory.

These are more expensive than the unichip, but I prefer the unichip as it has FAR more features, is clever and can be used in the future with ANY car. They are switchable by buying a different loom adapter, where as the ones mentioned above are only switchable between vag cars sharing the same ecu type.

After this car I plan to have a bmw diesel and I know they respond well go the unichip so would like to not waste the money.

They can equally be used with evos/imprezas/civics/skylines you name it.

You really need to see the features list to appreciate the beneifts over the standard vag remaps that most people seem to offer for similar money.

Perfect touch will be doing a fabia vrs on their rollers soon, and I will be keen to see what they can get from it, so I can know what to expect one day.

Apparently dastek in scotland who developed the unichip say that the pd130 shows the best percentage gains of any of the cars they have remapped. Nice to know!

had my geometry checked with perfect touch the other day, thought I would do a rolling road run whilst I was there.

135bhp and 247lbft!

can't complain about that one bit!